Oases and globalization : ruptures and continuities

This book is a reference work about the study of oases in the context of globalization. It is based on selected papers presented at the international colloquium entitled Oases in the Globalization, Ruptures and Continuities in Paris (December 16-17th, 2013). The main issue was to understand how oase...

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Other Authors Lavie, Emilie (Editor), Marshall, Anaïs (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017.
SeriesSpringer geography.
Subjects
Oases.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessPlný text

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Table of 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.

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