Keywords:
Water.
;
Hydrology.
;
Science
;
Philosophy of nature.
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: The “water problem” -- Chapter 2: Tensions from the start: Tales of the first hydrologist and his civilization -- Chapter 3: Divide and ponder: Dismembering water to study water -- Chapter 4: Adopting a more fluid ‘frame of mind’ in Hydrology -- Chapter 5: Limits in language: Which ‘water’ do you mean? -- Chapter 6: Hydrology by the numbers and for the numbers -- Chapter 7: Are hydrologists wading through ideas, instead of water? -- Chapter 8: An “umbrella perspective” of water: The Hermeneutics of hydrology -- Chapter 9: When water bows to market demands, so may its science -- Chapter 10: Neocolonial Hydrology: How ‘authentic’ are today’s human-water interactions? -- Chapter 11: How a ‘hypermasculine’ hydrology suffers from ED (Explanatory Dysfunction) -- Chapter 12: A psychoanalysis of wet dreams -- Chapter 13: Plato’s wonder and hydrology -- Chapter 14: Epilogue: On responsibility and blame (and a toast to hydrology).
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 166 p. 14 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2024.
ISBN:
9783031497681
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49768-1
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-031-49768-1
Language:
English
