- UHRA Home
- Browsing by Author
Browsing by Author "Crook, Darren"
Now showing items 1-16 of 16
-
An Argument From Silence? The Implications of Xu Xiake's Description of the Miju River in 1639
Elvin, Mark; Crook, Darren (Yunnan University Press, 2003) -
Bureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China: the uses of administrative cartography in the Miju catchment, Yunnan. : Mapping the Miju River
Crook, Darren; Elvin, Mark (2013-12)The sequence of twelve woodblock maps presented here from the mid-nineteenth-century gazetteer for the department of Dengchuan in southwest China shows the Miju river and the irrigation system that lay at the heart of its ... -
Detecting climatic signals in an anthropogenically disturbed catchment : The late-Holocene record from the Petit Lac d’Annecy, French Alps
Jones, R. T.; Reinhardt, Liam; Dearing, J.A.; Crook, Darren; Chiverrell, Richard; Welsh, Katherine; Verges, Elizabeth (2013-09)Historical and documentary records from the Petit Lac d’Annecy, indicate that human activities have been the dominant ‘geomorphic process’ shaping the catchment during the late Holocene, with deforestation, agriculture and ... -
The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change
Crook, Darren; Elvin, Mark; Jones, Richard; Ji, Shen; Foster, Gez; Dearing, John (Springer Nature, 2008)This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary methodology, which combines the use of archaeological and documentary sources alongside environmental proxy indicators found in sedimentary archives, to assess on a hydrological ... -
Improvement in the transition of a student from secondary or further education into science higher education : Is there a mismatch between staff and students' expectations as to what is required to study science?
Kass, Lindsy; Graeme-Cook, Kathleen; Peterson, Dale; Crook, Darren; Young, Jennifer (2009)The aim this project is to consider if we can improve the transition of a student from secondary or further education into science higher education by analysing whether there is a mismatch between staff and students’ ... -
An inter-continental comparison between the environmental histories of two Lake Catchment systems in montane environments of France and South West China
Crook, Darren; Dearing, John; Jones, Richard; Elvin, Mark (2011)Inter-continental comparisons of environmental histories can improve understanding of environmental problems and hazards, and suggest possible actions to promote adaptive capacity and resilience in communities. This paper ... -
An investigation into the age and origin of Suranga in the foothills of the Western Ghats of India
Crook, Darren; Tripathi, Sudhir; Jones, Richard (2015-09-30)This paper presents the evidence for determining the age and origin of suranga irrigation found mainly in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala in the foothills of the Western Ghats of south India. It draws on on-going ... -
Social-ecological systems in the Anthropocene : the need for integrating social and biophysical records at regional scales
Dearing, John; Acma, B.; Bub, S.; Chambers, F.M.; Chen, X.; Cooper, J.; Crook, Darren; Dong, X.H.; Dotterweich, M.; Edwards, M.E.; Foster, T.H.; Gaillard, M.; Galop, D.; Gell, P.; Gil, A.; Jeffers, E.; Jones, R.T.; Krishnamurthy, A.; Langdon, P.J.; Marchant, R.; Mazier, F.; McLean, C.E.; Nunes, L.H.; Raman, S.; Suryaprakash, I.; Umer, M.; Yang, X.D.; Wang, R.; Zhang, K. (2015-12-01)Understanding social-ecological system dynamics is a major research priority for sustainable management of landscapes, ecosystems and resources. But the lack of multi-decadal records represents an important gap in information ... -
Spatial and temporal controls on hydro-geomorphic processes in the French pre-Alps
Crook, Darren; Chiverrell, Richard; Dearing, John; Jones, Richard; Welsh, Katherine (2011)Integration of paleoenvironmental reconstructions, environmental history and cellular modeling sheds light on the likely impacts of climate change on hydrological and geomorphological processes in the French Prealps. -
The sustainability of Suranga irrigation in South Karnataka and northern Kerala, India
Crook, Darren; Tripathi, Sudhir; Jones, R. T. (2013)This paper reports the preliminary findings from an on-going research project that is exploring the resilience and sustainability of suranga irrigation technology found in the Western Ghats of south Karnataka and northern ... -
Traditional Design Principles of a Groundwater Irrigation System in the Foothills of the Western Ghats of Southwest India
Crook, Darren; Tripathi, Sudhir; Jones, Richard (2020-11-30)This paper presents the traditional design principles of the suranga water harvesting system found in an area of semi-critical groundwater scarcity in the Dakshin Kannada district of Karnataka and Kasaragod district in ... -
Traditional Irrigation and its Importance to the Tourist Landscape of Valais, Switzerland
Crook, Darren; Jones, Anne (1999)The contemporary landscape of the Central and Haut Valais, Switzerland, is partially a product of the ancient but extant bisse irrigation system. The current principal conduit network extends for approximately 760 kilometres, ... -
Traditional irrigation strategies and their implication for sustainable livelihoods in semi-arid areas
Jones, Anne; Hunt, Chris; Crook, Darren (Wiley, 1998) -
Traditional irrigation systems in dryland, Switzerland
Jones, Anne; Crook, Darren (Routledge, 2000) -
Traditional Methods of Groundwater Abstraction and Recharge along the Windward Side of the Foothills of the Western Ghats of India
Crook, Darren; Tripathi, Sudhir; Jones, R.T. (CRC Press, 2016-12-02) -
Water Harvesters of The Western Ghats
School of Life and Medical Sciences; Department of Human and Environmental Sciences; Health & Human Sciences Research Institute; Geography, Environment and Agriculture; Water and Environment; Agriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences; Crook, Darren; Tripathi, Sudhir; Ullah, Abu (UH School of Creative Art (digital media), 2013-08-28)A short film about traditinal water harvesters practising suranga irrigation in southern Karnataka and northern Kerala, India