Irrigation's impact on society

Book

Irrigation's impact on society / collaborating authors, Robert McC. Adams [and others] ; editors, Theodore E. Downing and McGuire Gibson.

Adams, Robert McC. (Robert McCormick), 1926- (Added Author). Downing, Theodore E., (editor.). Gibson, McGuire, (editor.). Southwestern Anthropological Association. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0816504199
ISBN: 9780816504190
Physical Description: xi, 181 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1974.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Papers from a symposium presented at the 1972 meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association, Long Beach, Calif.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Historic patterns of Mesopotamian irrigation agriculture / Robert McC. Adams -- Violation of fallow and engineered disaster in Mesopotamian civilization / McGuire Gibson -- Sassanian and early Islamic water-control and irrigation systems on the Deh Luran Plain, Iran / James A. Neely -- Irrigation and society : the Iranian Plateau / Brian Spooner -- Water control in terraced rice-field agriculture in Southeastern Asia / J.E. Spencer -- System nobody knows : village irrigation in the Swiss Alps / Robert McC. Netting -- Organizational preadaptation to irrigation : the evolution of early water-management systems in coastal Peru / M. Edward Moseley -- Irrigation and settlement pattern : preliminary research results from the north coast of Peru / Ian Farrington -- Conservation and diversion : water-control systems in the Anasazi southwest / R. Gwinn Vivian -- Irrigation and moisture-sensitive periods : a Zapotec case / Theodore E. Downing -- State's use of irrigation in chnaging peasant society / Susan H. Lees -- Irrigation, conflict, and politics : a Mexican case / Eva Hunt and Robert C. Hunt -- Irrigation development and population pressure / Wayne Kappel -- Comments on the Symposium from a hydrologic perspective / Martin M. Fogel -- Comments on the Symposium from a geographic perspective / Chris Field.