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![]() At the same time, the water in rivers, lakes, and oceans facilitated trade networks and the exchange of goods, people, and ideas. ![]() ![]() People around the world have both used water as a means of defense and have learned to defend themselves against water, in the form of floods from river and sea. No less importantly, water became a key element in their complex social organizations and political ideologies. They used water to cultivate the earth for drinking, food, and agriculture. Early states managed water resources with large-scale facilities like aqueducts, irrigation systems, and polders. Later, prehistoric farming societies manipulated water systems and redirected water to meet their essential needs. The earliest prehistoric hunters and gatherers, although nomadic, also settled down along rivers, lakes, and coastlines to ensure access to crucial resources–including water. Water has always been a central human concern. ![]() Center for Global Heritage and Development.It describes an alternative emerging present in which policymaking and design work together to recognize and build on traditional knowledge and skills while imagining how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes, and bodies of water. Through twenty-one chapters in five thematic sections, this book links the practices of the past to a present in which heritage and water are largely two separate disciplinary and professional fields. Today, the complex and diverse systems of the past are necessarily the framework for preservation and reuse as well as for new systems. Around water, they have created socioeconomic structures, policies, and cultures a rich world of narratives, laws, and practices and an extensive tangible network of infrastructure, buildings, and urban form. ![]() People have actively shaped its course, form, and function for human settlement and the development of civilizations. Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind. ![]()
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