Water management in the English landscape : field, marsh and meadow /
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Other Authors: | , |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[1999]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: landscape, environment and history
- 2. Soil and water management: principles and purposes
- 3. The drainage of arable land in medieval England
- 4. Post-medieval field drainage
- 5. Arable land drainage in the nineteenth century
- 6. Wetland soils
- 7. Hydrological management in reclaimed wetlands
- 8. Romano-British reclamation of coastal wetlands
- 9. Medieval reclamation of marsh and fen
- 10. Post-medieval drainage of marsh and fen
- 11. Water meadows: their form, operation and plant ecology
- 12. The development of water meadows in the southern countries
- 13. Inappropiate technology? The history of 'floating' in the North and East of England
- 14. Historical changes in the nature conservation interest of the Fens of Cambridgeshire
- 15. Water management systems: drainage and conservation
- References
- Index.