Water: A Biography Boccaletti Giulio
Water: A Biography Boccaletti Giulio Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Even as he describes how…
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Water: A Biography Boccaletti Giulio
Spanning millennia and continents, here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization. Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea-level changes from the last glacial melt, he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, led to a Boccaletti, of The Nature Conservancy, "tackles the most important story of our time: our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity" (Kelly McEvers, NPR Host).Writing with authority and brio, Giulio Boccaletti--honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford--shrewdly combines environmental and social history, beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates Rivers.