learning from history Cabrera, Enrique Arregui, Francisco text bibliography flu Boca Raton CRC Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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x, 341 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Foreword / Fernando Moreno García -- Preface / Enrique Cabrera & Francisco Arregui -- Water engineering and management through time. Learning from history / Enrique Cabrera & Francisco Arregui -- Water engineering and management in the early Bronze Age civilizations / Pierre Louis Viollet -- Water engineering and management in ancient Egypt / Larry Mays -- Water engineering and management in the classic civilizations / Henning Fahlbusch -- Water engineering and management in al-Andalus / José Roldan -- Hydraulic advances in the 19th and 20th centuries : from Navier over Prandtl into the future / Willi H. Hager -- Water, history and sustainability, a complex trinomial hard to harmonise in Mediterranean countries / Concepción Bru & Enrique Cabrera -- Water and agriculture. Present and future trends / Martín Sevilla Jiménez -- Water and the city in the 21st century. A panoramic vision / Steve Buchberger & Enrique Cabrera -- European water research : from past to future trends / Avelino González -- The interdisciplinary challenge in water policy : the case of "water governance" / J.E. Castro -- The future of water management : the case for long-range interconnections / M. Fanelli -- Water resources in developing countries : the Millennium Development Goals in the 21st century / C. Fernández-Jauregui -- Water challenges in the 21st century / Philip H. Burgi -- Conclusions / Enrique Hernández specialized editors, Enrique Cabrera & Francisco Arregui Includes bibliographical references and index Water-supply engineering History Water resources development History 9780415480024 (hbk.) 0415480027 (hbk.) 9780203836736 (ebk.) 0203836731 (ebk.) UMP 110304 20251117142431.0 vtls000051628