Water Insititutional Response to Social-Envrionmental Change: A Maya Case Study

Summary

This project looks specifically at how the choices of Maya royalty and farmers in the face of environmental fluctuation affected their water control institutions. More generally this project looks how people in water institutions/systems respond to change.

Cite this Record

Water Insititutional Response to Social-Envrionmental Change: A Maya Case Study. ( tDAR id: 374738) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JH3NNG

Keywords

Temporal Keywords
Classic Maya

Spatial Coverage

min long: -92.109; min lat: 16.72 ; max long: -86.484; max lat: 21.861 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Chris Caseldine

Contributor(s): Tim Dennehy; Emily Rosen; Chrissy Bausch

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 1-7 of 7)

Documents

  1. ArchaeologyWater and Land at the Ancient Maya Community of La Milpa (1995)
  2. Climate Change and Classic Maya Water Management (2011)
  3. The Collapse of the Classic Maya: A Case for the Role of Water Control (2002)
  4. Ecology and Ritual: Water Management and the Maya (1998)
  5. Water Management in the Southern Maya Lowlands (1993)
  6. A Water Storage Adaptation in the Maya Lowlands (1991)

Images

  1. Lucero, Gunn, Scarborough Word Cloud (2012)