Water communities / Rajib Shaw, Danai Thaitakoo.

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Water communities: introduction and overview / Rajib Shaw and Danai Thaitakoo -- Community-based water management practices in Japan / Yukiko Takeuchi, Noralene Uy and Rajib Shaw -- Bangkok liquid perception: waterscape urbanism in the Chao Phraya River Delta and implications to climate change adaptation / Danai Thaitakoo and Brian McGrath -- Triangle scheme for flood disaster prevention and technical transfer / Hirotada Matsuki -- Amplifying the community voices for greater access to drinking water in Bangladesh / Dwijen L Mallick -- Building civil organization networks in Shingashi River Basin towards sustainable water environment / Zozomi Hishida and Ryo Kamada -- Progress of research on cascade irrigation systems in the dry zones of Sri Lanka / K.W.G. Rekha Nianthi, M.A.S. Jayakumara -- Pani panchayat: examples of water governance and community participation in India / Chandra Bhakuni -- Urbanization does not always make progress: experiences of Horikawa River in Nagoya / Eizo Hideshima -- Water management systems of China: water cellar for community / Weihua Fang, Xingchun Zhong -- From the water community to policy perspectives of sustainable eco-development in Kampong Bahru, Malaysia / Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, Miwa Imura, Hatsumi Umakoshi, Shimpei Iwasaki, Shamsuri Suradi -- Indigenous and scientific water management: fusing research on urban headwater transformations in Northern Thailand and Metropolitan Baltimore / Brian McGrath, Danai Thaitakoo -- The water community case of Chou-Shui River in Taiwan / Jet-Chau Wen, Kuo-Chyang Chang, Shao-Yang Huang, Chia-Chen Hsu, Keng-Yu Chang, Wen-Ni Chen -- Essentials of water communities and its future perspective / Danai Thaitakoo, Rajib Shaw.

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Annotation Water is the key to human civilization. Most of the ancient civilization had its roots to river basins, where people-water interaction was the key aspect. Due to innovations of knowledge and technology and modernization of lifestyles, the human-water direct contact has become less significant. People have become more dependent on the system, and consequently, the closeness to water is gradually diminishing. It is however a challenge on how to learn from the basic principles of water-human interaction and apply those lessons to the current context of urban and rural settings. This book provides a few analytical case studies on different aspects of water communities, which is defined as the human-water interaction process. Book jacket.

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