Monsoon Other Waters
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Monsoon Other Waters
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Author : Lindsay Bremner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-15
Monsoon Other Waters written by Lindsay Bremner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-15 with Architecture categories.
Monsoon [] other] Waters is a collection of essays and graphic material arising from a symposium held at the University of Westminster, 12-13 April 2018.
Unruly Waters
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Author : Sunil Amrith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-12-06
Unruly Waters written by Sunil Amrith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-06 with History categories.
A bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its waters South Asia's history has been shaped by its waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines this history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, rivers and seas - and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. He shows how fears and dreams of water have, throughout South Asia, shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Every year humans have watched with overwhelming anxiety for the nature of that year's monsoon to be revealed, with entire populations living or dying on the outcome. From the first small weather-reporting stations to today's satellites, the modern battle both to understand and manage water has literally been a matter of life or death. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, this highly original work of history is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not only Asia's past but its future.
Monsoon Other Airs
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Author : Lindsay Bremner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-15
Monsoon Other Airs written by Lindsay Bremner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-15 with categories.
Monsoon [] other] Airs is a publication of Monsoon Assemblages, European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant no. 679873.
Monsoon As Method
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Author : Lindsay Bremner
language : en
Publisher: Actar D, Inc.
Release Date : 2022-05-25
Monsoon As Method written by Lindsay Bremner and has been published by Actar D, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-25 with Architecture categories.
An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology and its outcomes and invites urban practitioners to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene.
Unruly Waters
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Author : SUNIL. AMRITH
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Unruly Waters written by SUNIL. AMRITH and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Monsoon Economies
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Author : Tirthankar Roy
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-04-12
Monsoon Economies written by Tirthankar Roy and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Nature categories.
How interventions to mitigate climate-caused poverty and inequality in India came at a cost to environmental sustainability. In the monsoon regions of South Asia, the rainy season sustains life but brings with it the threat of floods, followed by a long stretch of the year when little gainful work is possible and the threat of famine looms. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, a series of interventions by Indian governments and other actors mitigated these conditions, enabling agricultural growth, encouraging urbanization, and bringing about a permanent decrease in death rates. But these actions—largely efforts to ensure wider access to water—came at a cost to environmental sustainability. In Monsoon Economies, Tirthankar Roy explores the interaction between the environment and the economy in the emergence of modern India. Roy argues that the tropical monsoon climate makes economic and population growth contingent on water security. But in a water-scarce world, the means used to increase water security not only created environmental stresses but also made political conflict more likely. Roy investigates famine relief, the framing of a seasonal “water famine,” and the concept of public trust in water; the political movements that challenged socially sanctioned forms of deprivation; water as a public good; water quality in cities; the shift from impounding river water in dams and reservoirs to exploring groundwater; the seasonality of a monsoon economy; and economic lessons from India for a world facing environmental degradation.
Monsoon Postcards
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Author : David H. Mould
language : en
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-14
Monsoon Postcards written by David H. Mould and has been published by Ohio University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-14 with Travel categories.
In Monsoon Postcards, journalist David H. Mould, notebook in hand, traverses the Indian Ocean—from Madagascar through India and Bangladesh to Indonesia. It’s an unpredictable journey on battered buses, bush taxis, auto-rickshaws, and crowded ferries. Mould travels from the traffic snarls of Delhi, Dhaka, and Jakarta to the rice paddies and ancestral tombs of Madagascar’s Central Highlands; from the ancient kingdom of Hyderabad to India’s so-called chicken neck—the ethnically diverse and underdeveloped northeast; and from the textile factories and rivers of Bangladesh to the beaches of Bali and the province of Aceh—ground zero for the 2004 tsunami. Along the way, in markets, shops, roadside cafes, and classrooms, he meets journalists, professors, students, aid workers, cab drivers, and other everyday residents to learn how they view their past and future. Much like its predecessor, Mould’s Postcards from Stanland, Monsoon Postcards offers witty and insightful glimpses into countries linked by history, trade, migration, religion, and a colonial legacy. It explores how they confront the challenges of climate change, urban growth, economic development, land, water and natural resources, and national and ethnic identity.
Monsoon Economy
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Author : Tirthankar Roy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Release Date : 2023-12-22
Monsoon Economy written by Tirthankar Roy and has been published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-22 with Science categories.
In the monsoon regions of South Asia, the rainy season sustains life but brings with it the threat of floods, followed by a long stretch when little gainful work is possible and the threat of famine looms too. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, a series of interventions by the Indian government and other actors mitigated these conditions, thus enabling agricultural growth, encouraging urbanization and bringing about a permanent decrease in death rates. But these actions—largely efforts to ensure wider access to water—came at a cost to environmental sustainability. In Monsoon Economy, Tirthankar Roy explores the interaction between the environment and the economy in the emergence of modern India. Roy argues that the tropical monsoon climate makes economic and population growth contingent on water security. But in a water-scarce world, the means used to increase water security not only created environmental stresses but also made political conflict more likely. Highlighting the importance of water as a public good, the author critically analyses issues such as water quality in cities, the shift from impounding river water in dams and reservoirs to exploring groundwater, and the seasonality of a monsoon economy. He also draws economic lessons from India for a world facing environmental degradation.
Chasing The Monsoon
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Author : Alexander Frater
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2011-03-25
Chasing The Monsoon written by Alexander Frater and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with Travel categories.
On 20th May the Indian summer monsoon will begin to envelop the country in two great wet arms, one coming from the east, the other from the west. They are united over central India around 10th July, a date that can be calculated within seven or eight days. Alexander Frater aims to follow the monsoon, staying sometimes behind it, sometimes in front of it, and everywhere watching the impact of this extraordinary phenomenon. During the anxious period of waiting, the weather forecaster is king, consulted by pie-crested cockatoos, and a joyful period ensues: there is a period of promiscuity, and scandals proliferate. Frater's journey takes him to Bangkok and the cowboy town on the Thai-Malaysian border to Rangoon and Akyab in Burma (where the front funnels up between the mountains and the sea). His fascinating narrative reveals the exotic, often startling, discoveries of an ambitious and irresistibly romantic adventurer.
Monsoon Rains Great Rivers And The Development Of Farming Civilisations In Asia
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Author : Peter D. Clift
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-01-07
Monsoon Rains Great Rivers And The Development Of Farming Civilisations In Asia written by Peter D. Clift 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.
A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.