Water engineering and management through time
Subtitle: learning from history
By: editors, Enrique Cabrera & Francisco Arregui
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780415480024; 9780203836736
Subjects: Water-supply engineering; Water resources development; History
Notes: "A Balkema book."

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