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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Measurements and Currency -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Huai River Valley: Politics, Society, and Environmental Change from Yü the Great to 1927 -- Chapter 1 Long Term Environmental Change in the Huai River Valley, 200 b.c.e.-1855 -- Chapter 2 Huai River Administrative Structure and "Dao Huai" Proposals up to the Nationalist Period, 1500-1927 -- Part II: Reconstruction and Huai River Conservancy during the "Nanjing Decade," 1927-1938 -- Chapter 3 Centralizing Institutions and Planning: The Huai River Conservancy Commission, 1928-1931 -- Chapter 4 From the Sediment: The 1931 Flood -- Chapter 5 Cross Currents: Centralization and Fragmentation in Huai River Administration, 1931-1935 -- Chapter 6 To the Sea: The State and Mobilization of Resources for Huai River Engineering -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

Intro -- Contents -- List of Images -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 1: Water, Civilization, and Culture -- Introduction -- Reading 1: Water and Early Cultures -- Reading 2: Rivers and National Identity -- Reading 3: Water, Culture, and Memory -- Reading 4: Cultural Myths of Water -- Further Reading -- 2: Water and Landscapes -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 3: Water and Production -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Reading 5 -- Further Reading -- 4: Water and Health -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 5: Water and Equity -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 6: Water and Governance -- Chapter Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 7: Water and Security -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 8: Water and Globalization -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 9: Water and Sustainability -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Landscape organization -- 1 Borders and mosaics, east and west: landscape organization in environmental history -- Commentary -- Commentary -- Commentary -- PART II Managing the rivers -- 2 Writing the 20th-century history of water on the North China Plain -- 3 Land use change in a mountainous area during the past 300 years from the perspective of the spatial evolution of settlements: the case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China -- 4 Taming the blind snake: flooding disasters and river regulation of the Zengwen River in colonial Taiwan -- PART III Land use and food production -- 5 Transformation through inundation: riziculturing Muslim identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan -- 6 The role of plant factories on food production and technology in Japan -- PART IV Development of eco-cities -- 7 Eco-city development in Japan -- 8 Ecological construction in coastal Southeast China -- 9 Building the sustainable city of Yilan: the development of environmental governance learning capacity -- PART V Folk belief and environment -- 10 Nature worship and the environment in Song China -- 11 The mountain spirits and lake monsters of Xinjiang Province during the Qing Dynasty -- Index