Giulio Boccaletti

Spanning millennia and continents here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization Boccaletti of The Nature Conservancy tackles the most important story of our time our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity Kelly McEvers NPR Host Writing with authority and brio Giulio Boccaletti honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford shrewdly combines environmental and social history beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping which in turn led to a population explosion and labor specialization We see with clarity how irrigation s structure informed social structure inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity how in ancient Greece the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation and how the modern world as we know it began with a

Spanning millennia and continents here is a stunningly revealing history of how the distribution of water has shaped human civilization Boccaletti of The Nature Conservancy tackles the most important story of our time our relationship with water in a world of looming scarcity Kelly McEvers NPR Host Writing with authority and brio Giulio Boccaletti honorary research associate at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment University of Oxford shrewdly combines environmental and social history beginning with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers Even as he describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt he incisively examines how this type of farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping which in turn led to a population explosion and labor specialization We see with clarity how irrigation s structure informed social structure inventions such as the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity how in ancient Greece the communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy how the Greek and Roman experiences with water security resulted in systems of taxation and how the modern world as we know it began with a

A história fascinante do bem mais precioso do planeta.A água é um bem essencial para a Humanidade. A sua posse, gestão e distribuição ao longo dos milénios moldou a civilização numa história que abra

Una épica historia de la civilización a través del uso del agua. La forma en que nos hemos relacionado con el agua ha determinado nuestra evolución social. Las primeras civilizaciones de agricultores sedentarios en las fertiles riberas de los rios Nilo, Tigris y Eufrates marcaron el punto de partida de este viaje a lo largo de los milenios y continentes. El paso a la irrigacion, propiciado por los cambios en el nivel del mar, dio lugar a una explosion demografica y a cambios estructurales que se dejarian sentir a lo largo de los siglos. En Grecia, por ejemplo, la propiedad comunal de los pozos sento las bases de la democracia; en Roma, el sistema hidraulico dio lugar a sistemas de tributacion; y el mundo moderno tal y como lo conocemos nacio con la creacion de un marco juridico para el desarrollo de infraestructuras hidricas. Giulio Boccaletti, experto internacional en la gestion de los recursos naturales y sostenibilidad, nos ofrece un relato epico que combina la historia social y medioambiental a lo largo de los siglos y que nos demuestra de que manera el agua, y su gestion, ha dado forma a la civilizacion humana. Agua es una historia extraordinaria que amplia nuestro conocimiento sobre nuestra relacion, y dependencia, con el oro liquido del planeta en un momento en el que la seguridad hidrica es una de las principales asignaturas pendientes.