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Water and State in Europe and Asia / edited by Peter Borschberg and Martin Krieger
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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2008Description: 290pISBN: - 8173047766
- 333.91 B738
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Water is indispensable for all lofe on earth. Since ancient times, the control of freshwater resources and also the sea facilitated the rise of communal structure and administrative institutions across Europe and Asia. Many states tightened their authority of creaming off agricultural surplluses from irrigated land. The more effective the irrigational systems, the higher state revenues tended to be. For much of the twentieth century, research on such community based irrigation was sominated by Kari August Wittfogel`s discourse on Hydraulic Despotism`.
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| 333.709 54 S555 Ecology and the Politics of Survival : Conflicts Over Natural Resources in India | 333.75160954 L7566 Forest Futures : Global Representations and Ground Realities in the Himalayas | 333.90954 A793 Water Laws and Rights in India | 333.91 B738 Water and State in Europe and Asia / | 333.9100954 B188 Governance of Water : Institutional Alternatives and Political Economy / | 333.910954 J151 Jalyatra : Exploring India's Traditional Water Management Systems | 333.91150954 D9932 Conflict and Collective Action : The Sardar Sarovar Project in India |
includes index and biblioraphy
Water is indispensable for all lofe on earth. Since ancient times, the control of freshwater resources and also the sea facilitated the rise of communal structure and administrative institutions across Europe and Asia. Many states tightened their authority of creaming off agricultural surplluses from irrigated land. The more effective the irrigational systems, the higher state revenues tended to be. For much of the twentieth century, research on such community based irrigation was sominated by Kari August Wittfogel`s discourse on Hydraulic Despotism`.
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