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DOI	10.5194/cp-17-913-2021
	Controlling water infrastructure and codifying water knowledge: Institutional responses to severe drought in Barcelona (1620-1650)
	Gorostiza S.; Antònia Martí Escayol M.; Barriendos M.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	1814-9324
起始页码	833
结束页码	845
卷号	17 期号:2
英文摘要	Combining historical climatology and environmental history, this article examines the diverse range of strategies deployed by the city government of Barcelona (Catalonia, NE Spain) to confront the recurrent drought episodes experienced between 1626 and 1650. Our reconstruction of drought in Barcelona for the period 1525-1821, based on pro pluvia rogations as documentary proxy data, identifies the years 1626-1635 and the 1640s as the most significant drought events of the series (highest drought frequency weighted index and drought duration index). We then focus on the period 1601-1650, providing a timeline that visualises rain rogation levels in Barcelona at a monthly resolution. Against this backdrop, we examine institutional responses to drought and discuss how water scarcity was perceived and confronted by Barcelona city authorities. Among the several measures implemented, we present the ambitious water supply projects launched by the city government, together with the construction of windmills as an alternative to watermills, as a diversification strategy aimed at coping better with diminishing water flows. We pay special attention to the institutional efforts to codify the knowledge about Barcelona's water supply, which in 1650 resulted in the Book of Fountains of the City of Barcelona (Llibre de les Fonts de la Ciutat de Barcelona). This manual of urban water supply, written by the city water officer after 3 decades of experience in his post, constitutes a rare and valuable source to study water management history but also includes significant information to interpret historical climate. We analyse the production of this manual in the context of 3 decades marked by recurrent episodes of severe drought. We interpret the city government aspiration to codify knowledge about urban water supply as an attempt to systematise and store historical information on infrastructure to improve institutional capacities to cope with future water scarcities. © 2021 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
来源期刊	Climate of the Past
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/183580
作者单位	Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, 08193, Spain; Centre d'Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris, 75006, France; Department of Modern and Contemporary History, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08193, Spain; Department of History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, 08001, Spain
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gorostiza S.,Antònia Martí Escayol M.,Barriendos M.. Controlling water infrastructure and codifying water knowledge: Institutional responses to severe drought in Barcelona (1620-1650)[J],2021,17(2).
APA	Gorostiza S.,Antònia Martí Escayol M.,&Barriendos M..(2021).Controlling water infrastructure and codifying water knowledge: Institutional responses to severe drought in Barcelona (1620-1650).Climate of the Past,17(2).
MLA	Gorostiza S.,et al."Controlling water infrastructure and codifying water knowledge: Institutional responses to severe drought in Barcelona (1620-1650)".Climate of the Past 17.2(2021).