[南アジア研究センター共催] Professor Tirthankar Roy,‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’

[南アジア研究センター共催] Professor Tirthankar Roy,‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’
日時：2024年6月25日（火）13:00-14:30
場所：慶應義塾大学三田キャンパス　北館1階会議室2
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報告：Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE/Kansai),‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’
要旨：From the early twentieth century, a big part of our world – the arid/semiarid tropics – began extracting, storing, and recycling vast quantities of water to sustain population growth and economic development. The idea was not a new one in this geography. It was an intrinsic part of ancient culture, statecraft, and technology. Most ancient projects, however, were local and small in scale. The capability of water extraction on a scale large enough to transform whole regions, societies, and countries and create new cities improved in the early twentieth century, giving rise to a sharp break in the long-term pattern of population and economic growth from the mid-twentieth century. Ironically, the geography of the arid tropics made transforming landscapes in this way expensive, damaging for the environment, and disputatious. The talk is about that troubled history of economic emergence.
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言語：英語
問い合わせ先：神田さやこ（慶應義塾大学）kanda[at]keio.jp
主催：慶應義塾経済学会
共催：科学研究費補助金 基盤研究A「中印比較史の創生 データベースに基づく総合的研究」/東京大学南アジア研究センター