Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197802397ISBN-10:197802397UPC:9780197802397Book Category:Business & Economics, HistoryBook Subcategory:Economic Conditions, Economic History, Historical GeographySize:9.00 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC9B4V6CEE
Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics
From the early twentieth century, a big part of the world--the arid tropics--began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. These regions worked on water to deal with seasonality, or the rotation between extreme aridity for a part of the year and a concentrated period of rain. The idea of storing water in the wet season to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780197802397ISBN-10:197802397UPC:9780197802397Book Category:Business & Economics, HistoryBook Subcategory:Economic Conditions, Economic History, Historical GeographySize:9.00 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.3007Product ID:SC9B4V6CEE
Tirthankar Roy is a professor of economic history at the London School of Economics. He has published extensively on the history and development of South Asia, global history, empires, and environmental history, and is the author of Monsoon Economies: India's History in a Changing Climate (2022), Law and the Economy in Colonial India (with Anand Swamy, 2016), and Law and the Economy in a Young...
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