Land Drainage and Irrigation
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in the History of Civil Engineering
ISBN-10
0860787524
ISBN-13
9780860787525
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 23rd, 1998
Print length
414 Pages
Weight
930 grams
Product Classification:
History of engineering & technologyLand reclamation & drainageSanitary & municipal engineering
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An examination of the processes of irrigation and land drainage and reclamation, illustrating a variety of technological and engineering solutions in a wide chronological and geographical perspective. Correlations between irrigation and social structures are described as over simplistic.
Mans control over the elements of land and water for the purposes of agriculture was fundamental to the development of civilisations in the past, and remains so today. This volume deals with the processes of irrigation, and land drainage and reclamation, and illustrates the variety of technological and engineering solutions in a wide chronological and geographical perspective. The sophistication of many pre-modern systems is clear, as is the impact of modern technologies. Important points that emerge are that there was no steady or linear progression in techniques across time - instances of the transfer of ideas are balanced by cases of independent development - and that the correlations between irrigation systems and social structures demand more complex explanations than often proposed.
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