1st Edition
Rivers and Society Landscapes, Governance and Livelihoods
Chapter 1: Introduction: the rivers and society debate revisited
Abhik Chakraborty
Chapter 2: Rivers as Socioecological Landscapes
Abhik Chakraborty and Shamik Chakraborty
Chapter 3: Rivers and Communities: Can We Drought Proof a Catchment or an Entire Country?
Ronnie Mackenzie
Chapter 4: Arid Lands, Saline Lands: Water in the form of a major river under stress, the Murray-Darling System in Australia
Malcolm Cooper
Chapter 5: Life, Identity and Work in an Arid River Basin: The Case of the Zayandeh-Rud (Life-Giving River) in Central Iran
Kazem Vafadari Mehrizi
Chapter 6: Rivers and Water Security: Supply adaptation strategies in the City of Chennai, India
Sharanya Sethuram and Malcolm Cooper
Chapter 7: The Velho Chico: perceptions and conflicts
Lucigleide Nery Nascimento
Chapter 8: Rivers as Vernacular Landscapes: place and experience in making the Clutha River, New Zealand
Andrea Farminer
Chapter 9: Keep it Flowing: The Restoration Ecology of Indigenous Culture and Language Along the Missouri River
Dean P. Good Eagle Fox and Alesia Maltz
Chapter 10: The End of the Los Angeles River: A paradox
T.S. McMillin
Chapter 11: The River’s Embrace: The Rhine-Meuse Delta (Re)Imagined
Eveline R. de Smalen
Chapter 12: Art Custodians of Our Rivers: Basia Irland, Daniel McCormick and Mary O'Brien
Valerie Behiery
Chapter 13: Hydrocitizenship: Concepts and Insights from the Lee Valley, UK
Graeme Evans
Chapter 14: River Tourism
Malcolm Cooper
Chapter 15: Social landscape and environment: the Herault River in Southern France
Jeremy S. Eades
Chapter 16: Concluding remarks and the way forward
Shamik Chakraborty, Abhik Chakraborty and Malcolm Cooper
Biography
Malcolm Cooper PhD is Emeritus Professor, College of Asia Pacific Studies, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan.
Abhik Chakraborty PhD is Lecturer in the Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Japan.
Shamik Chakraborty PhD is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, Japan.
"this book offers a very diverse perspective on river systems, management, and linkage of cultural systems. In the latter perspective of linking cultural river landscape perspectives—this book is unique. Also of great value is the international range of river systems covered within one book. This book would be useful as an upper level undergraduate, beginning graduate level geography, environmental studies course on river systems and society, or anyone interested in a wide scope of studying river systems for a societal perspective." - Richard Smardon in Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences (2018)
