Oases and globalization : ruptures and continuities / Emilie Lavie, Anaïs Marshall, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lavie, Emilie, editor.

Marshall, Anaïs, editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Springer geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oases.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Introduction

Part I The genesis of the oases in South East Arabia

The Southern-Tunisian oases paradox: renovation or death of a concept

Real and imaginary oases in the Arabic world

Part II Marginalization and spatial reversal

Spatial reorganization of piedmont oases of the Peruvian coast

Insular Oases in the Globalization: the Ribeiras of Cape Verde Archipelago, fragmented and fragile Spaces on the Way of Marginalization

Liwa: the transformation of an agricultural oasis in a strategic water storage for Abu Dhabi

The mutation of the Oases of Mendoza (Argentina) Or how the oases' socio-spatial structures have been reversed by the 2000s' crisis

Part III Global control at different temporal scales Water management as main actor

The Oasis of the Chicama Valley: Water Management from the Chimú to the Spaniards (11th to 17th A.D.) in the North Coast of Peru

Changing agricultural practices in the oases of southern Tunisia: conflict and competition for resources in post-revolutionary and globalization context

Who controls the oasis? The case of the middle Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (Pr David BLANCHON) Local impacts of external control

Global Kashgar

from trading oasis to special economic zone

High-mountain-oases facing new roads: case studies from the Andes and the Himalayas

Tourism, development and territorial integration in the Thar Desert, India

The Kunduz Oasis and Military Globalization.

Notes:

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 4, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Oases and globalization.

ISBN:

9783319507491

3319507494

Publisher Number:

90103688772

10.1007/978-3-319-50

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Restricted for use by site license.