Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Sustainability and water management in the Maya world and beyond / edited by Jean T. Larmon, Lisa J. Lucero, and Fred Valdez Jr
Published Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2022]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Contents Introduction to a path to sustainability : the past and future role of water management / Jean T. Larmon, Lisa J. Lucero, and Fred Valdez Jr. -- Harvesting ha : ancient water collection and storage in the elevated interior region of the Maya lowlands / Nicholas Dunning, Jeffrey Brewer, Christopher Carr, Armando Anaya Hernández, Timothy Beach, Jennifer Chmilar, Liwy Grazioso Sierra, Robert Griffin, David Lentz, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach, Kathryn Reese-Taylor, William Saturno, Vernon Scarborough, Michael Smyth, Fred Valdez -- Ancient Maya intensive agriculture and water management practices / David Lentz, Nicholas Dunning, Payson Sheets, Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzader-Beach, Andrew Wyatt, and Cynthia Robin -- Many visions of water / Wendy Ashmore -- Three tropical thoughts : the migration to tropical ecology / Joel D. Gunn -- Water trails and water mountains : the view from Northwest Petén / David Freidel, Mary Jane Acuña, Carlos R. Chiriboga, Michelle Rich -- Caracol, Belize and Tikal, Guatemala : Ancient Maya human-nature relationships and their socio-political context / Arlen F. Chase, Diane Z. Chase, and Adrian S.Z. Chase -- From "Preclassic" to "Classic" and "Post-Classic" among the Maya : the role of information processing and socio-environmental-economic values in the emergence and decline of "watery" cities / Sander van der Leeuw -- Managing the environment in Southeast Asia : local conditions and global implications / Dan Penny and Roland Fletcher -- Acequias : trust and hydrosocial territory / Sylvia Rodríguez -- How do we get out of this mess? Landscape legacies, unintended consequences, and tradeoffs of past human behavior on the path to sustainability / Christian Isendahl
Summary "Investigates climate change and sustainability through time, exploring how political control of water sources, maintenance of sustainable systems, ideological relationships with water, and fluctuations in water availability have affected and been affected by social change"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 19, 2022)
Subject Mayas -- Antiquities.
Water-supply -- Central America -- Management -- History
Water-supply -- Climatic factors -- Central America -- History
Water quality management -- Central America -- History
Water -- Symbolic aspects -- Central America
Climate change mitigation -- Central America -- History
Sustainable development -- Central America -- History
Social Science -- General.
Social Science -- Archaeology.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- Physical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Climate change mitigation
Mayas -- Antiquities
Sustainable development
Water quality management
Water-supply -- Climatic factors
Water-supply -- Management
Water -- Symbolic aspects
Central America
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Larmon, Jean T., 1988- editor.
Lucero, Lisa Joyce, 1962- editor.
Valdez, Fred, Jr., 1953- editor.
LC no. 2021049364
ISBN 1646422325
9781646422326