Class Readings and Plans for Tuesday, November 3
Water

Class Plan
We will divide the class into two groups. The first group will read three articles (and skim a fourth) on the historical ecology of water in the prehistoric American Southwest, and the second group will read three articles (and skim a fourth) on the recent historical ecology of water in China.

By 9:00 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, you should post a comment about how the phenomena you read about in your case study relate to Ostrom's discussion of common property rights regimes and/or to ideas of resilience and vulnerability discussed in many of the readings for earlier classes.

Readings

Group 1: American Southwest Prehistory Case

• Waters, Michael R. and John C. Ravesloot, 2001, Landscape Change and the Cultural Evolution of the Hohokam along the Middle Gila River and Other River Valleys in Southcentral Arizona. American Antiquity 66(2):285-299.
• [Skim] Ensor, Bradley E., Marisa O. Ensor, and Gregory W. De Vries. 2003. "Hohokam Political Ecology and Vulnerability: Comments on Waters and Ravesloot". American Antiquity. 68 (1): 169-181.
• Briggs, John M., Katherine A. Spielmann, Hoski Schaafsma, Keith W. Kintigh, Melissa Kruse, Kari Morehouse, Karen Schollmeyer (2006) Why ecology needs archaeologists and archaeology needs ecologists. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(4):180-188.
• Nelson, M. C., Hegmon, M., Kintigh, K. W., Kinzig, A. P., Nelson, B. A., Anderies, J. M., ... & Meegan, C. (2012). Long-term vulnerability and resilience: Three examples from archaeological study in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. In Surviving Sudden Environmental Change: Understanding Hazards, Mitigating Impacts, Avoiding Disasters, University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 197-220.

• Schoppa, Keith R. (1989), View and Chapter 1 (required), and View and Chapter 2 (optional) in Xiang Lake: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Perdue, Peter C. (1982), Official Goals and Local Interests: Water Control in the Dongting Lake Region During the Ming and Qing Periods, Journal of Asian Studies 41 (4): 747-765.
• [skim with careful attention to figures] Stephen Foster, Hector Garduno, Richard Evans, Doug Olson, Yuan Tian, Weizhen Zhang, and Zaisheng Han (2003) Quaternary Aquifer of the North China Plain--assessing and achieving groundwater resource sustainability, Hydrogeology Journal online December 2003.
• Jon Barnett, Michael Webber, Mark Wang, Brian Finlayson, and Debbie Dickinson (2006). Ten Key Questions about the Management of Water in the Yellow River Basin. Environmental Management 38 (2): 179-188.