Hydraulic City
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Hydraulic City
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Author : Nikhil Anand
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-17
Hydraulic City written by Nikhil Anand and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-17 with Social Science categories.
In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. It provides residents an important access point through which they can make demands on the state for other public services such as sanitation and education. Tying the ways Mumbai's poorer residents are seen by the state to their historic, political, and material relations with water pipes, the book highlights the critical role infrastructures play in consolidating civic and social belonging in the city.
Global Talent
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Author : Gi-Wook Shin
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-18
Global Talent written by Gi-Wook Shin and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-18 with Social Science categories.
Global Talent seeks to examine the utility of skilled foreigners beyond their human capital value by focusing on their social capital potential, especially their role as transnational bridges between host and home countries. Gi-Wook Shin and Joon Nak Choi build on an emerging stream of research that conceptualizes global labor mobility as a positive-sum game in which countries and businesses benefit from building ties across geographic space, rather than the zero-sum game implied by the "global war for talent" and "brain drain" metaphors. The book empirically demonstrates its thesis by examination of the case of Korea: a state archetypical of those that have been embracing economic globalization while facing a demographic crisis—and one where the dominant narrative on the recruitment of skilled foreigners is largely negative. It reveals the unique benefits that foreign students and professionals can provide to Korea, by enhancing Korean firms' competitiveness in the global marketplace and by generating new jobs for Korean citizens rather than taking them away. As this research and its key findings are relevant to other advanced societies that seek to utilize skilled foreigners for economic development, the arguments made in this book offer insights that extend well beyond the Korean experience.
Water City
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Author : Ayda Alehashemi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Water City written by Ayda Alehashemi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Un recueil d'études sur les relations entre l'eau, les infrastructures urbaines et l'architecture. Les contributeurs analysent comment l'essor urbain transforme les techniques traditionnelles d'approvisionnement en eau. En combinant les savoirs anciens à l'innovation, les projets d'aménagement urbain réinventent le rôle central de l'eau dans un contexte de transition écologique. Electre 2020.
Water Use And Hydraulics In The Roman City
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Author : Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Water Use And Hydraulics In The Roman City written by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Aqueducts categories.
Born out of a "water colloquium" at the AIA Annual Meeting, this volume focuses on Roman water use, supply, storage, and distribution in a variety of ancient cities, including Syracuse, Agrigento, Pompeii, Rome, Athens, and several cities in Roman North Africa. The contributors are an international group of scholars whose research provides important new perspectives on a number of ancient hydraulic problems, which are richly illustrated here.
Endangered City
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Author : Austin Zeiderman
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Endangered City written by Austin Zeiderman and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Social Science categories.
Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Bogotá, Colombia, he examines how state actors work to protect the lives of poor and vulnerable citizens from a range of threats, including environmental hazards and urban violence. By following both the governmental agencies charged with this mandate and the subjects governed by it, Endangered City reveals what happens when logics of endangerment shape the terrain of political engagement between citizens and the state. The self-built settlements of Bogotá’s urban periphery prove a critical site from which to examine the rising effect of security and risk on contemporary cities and urban life.
Water Resources And Hydraulics
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Author : Xixi Wang
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Water Resources And Hydraulics written by Xixi Wang and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Nature categories.
This exciting new textbook introduces the concepts and tools essential for upper-level undergraduate study in water resources and hydraulics. Tailored specifically to fit the length of a typical one-semester course, it will prove a valuable resource to students in civil engineering, water resources engineering, and environmental engineering. It will also serve as a reference textbook for researchers, practicing water engineers, consultants, and managers. The book facilitates students' understanding of both hydrologic analysis and hydraulic design. Example problems are carefully selected and solved clearly in a step-by-step manner, allowing students to follow along and gain mastery of relevant principles and concepts. These examples are comparable in terms of difficulty level and content with the end-of-chapter student exercises, so students will become well equipped to handle relevant problems on their own. Physical phenomena are visualized in engaging photos, annotated equations, graphical illustrations, flowcharts, videos, and tables.
Contested Knowledges
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Author : Esha Shah
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2019-05-20
Contested Knowledges written by Esha Shah and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-20 with Social Science categories.
Water acquisition, storage, allocation and distribution are intensely contested in our society, whether, for instance, such issues pertain to a conflict between upstream and downstream farmers located on a small stream or to a large dam located on the border of two nations. Water conflicts are mostly studied as disputes around access to water resources or the formulation of water laws and governance rules. However, explicitly or not, water conflicts nearly always also involve disputes among different philosophical views. The contributions to this edited volume have looked at the politics of contested knowledge as manifested in the conceptualisation, design, development, implementation and governance of large dams and mega-hydraulic infrastructure projects in various parts of the world. The special issue has explored the following core questions: Which philosophies and claims on mega-hydraulic projects are encountered, and how are they shaped, validated, negotiated and contested in concrete contexts? Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is downplayed in water development conflict situations, and how have different epistemic communities and cultural-political identities shaped practices of design, planning and construction of dams and mega-hydraulic projects? The contributions have also scrutinised how these epistemic communities interactively shape norms, rules, beliefs and values about water problems and solutions, including notions of justice, citizenship and progress that are subsequently to become embedded in material artefacts.
Fracking And The Environment
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Author : Daniel J. Soeder
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-11
Fracking And The Environment written by Daniel J. Soeder and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-11 with Nature categories.
This book provides a systematic scientific approach to the understanding of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) as a hydrocarbon extraction technology and its impact on the environment. The book addresses research from the past decade to assess how fracking can affect air, water, landscapes and ecosystems, and presents the subject in the context of the history of fracking and shale gas development in the United States, describing what is known and not known about environmental impacts, and the broader implications of fossil energy use, climate change, and technology development. In 9 chapters, the author lays out how and why hydraulic fracturing was developed, what driving forces existed at the beginning of the so-called "shale revolution", how success was achieved, and when and why public acceptance of the technology changed. The intended audience is scientific people who are concerned about fracking, but perhaps do not know all that much about it. It is also intended for lay people who would be interested in understanding the technical details of the process and what effects it might or might not be having on the environment. The book is written at a level that is both understandable and technically correct. A further goal is to give some useful insights even to experienced petroleum geologists and engineers who have been doing fracking for many years.
Hydraulic Engineering And Sustainable City Development Iii
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Author : Xun Wu
language : en
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications Ltd
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Hydraulic Engineering And Sustainable City Development Iii written by Xun Wu and has been published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2014 3rd International Conference on Civil, Architectural and Hydraulic Engineering (ICCAHE 2014), July 30 -31, 2014, Hangzhou, China. The 262 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Hydrology, Water Resources, Flood and Drought Management, Chapter 2: Hydraulic Engineering, Chapter 3: Water Purification and Wastewater Treatment, Chapter 4: Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Exploitation, Chapter 5: Landscape Planning and Design, Chapter 6: Urban, Rural Planning and Design, Chapter 7: Transportation Planning, Operation and Organization, Chapter 8: Traffic Control, Chapter 9: Renewable Energy, Energy Saving Building, Low-Carbon Building, Ecological Building, Chapter 10: Sustainable City and Regional Development, Chapter 11: Indoor Environment, Chapter 12: Environmental Engineering, Monitoring and Protection, Chapter 13: Electronics and Power Engineering, Chapter 14: Information Technologies
Hydraulic Control Systems
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Author : Herbert E. Merritt
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1991-09-03
Hydraulic Control Systems written by Herbert E. Merritt and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The use of hydraulic control is rapidly growing and the objective of this book is to present a rational and well-balanced treatment of its components and systems. Coverage includes a review of applicable topics in fluid mechanisms; components encountered in hydraulic servo controlled systems; systems oriented issues and much more. Also offers practical suggestions concerning testing and limit cycle oscillation problems.