Responding to extremes: Managing urban water scarcity in the late nineteenth-century Straits Settlements

Responding to extremes: Managing urban water scarcity in the late nineteenth-century Straits Settlements

In 1877, the major towns of the Straits Settlements - Singapore, George Town, Penang Island and Malacca - suffered a drought of exceptional magnitude. The drought’s natural instigator was the El Niño phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a climatic phenomenon then not understood by conte...

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Main Author: WILLIAMSON, Fiona
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
Subjects:
Straits Settlements
drought
urban planning
water conservation
Environmental Sciences
Urban Studies and Planning
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3247
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4504/viewcontent/Williamson2020_Article_RespondingToExtremesManagingUr.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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