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Hidden Waters: Groundwater Histories of Iran and the Mediterranean

This dissertation in environmental history is concerned with human landscapes of groundwater extraction. Using temporal and spatial comparison, it examines the role of groundwater tunnel-wells and human understandings of groundwater availability in the Western Desert of Egypt; the Balearic Islands of Spain; and Iran. In an Epilogue and final chapter, it examines conceptions of 20th-century expertise for environmental knowledge and economic development.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:columbia.edu/oai:academiccommons.columbia.edu:10.7916/D8X3649D
Date January 2011
CreatorsSchade, Abigail E.
Source SetsColumbia University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeTheses

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