Nas fronteiras do paraíso

Poettering, Jorun (2019): Nas fronteiras do paraíso. Avaliando o abastecimento de água do Rio de Janeiro (séculos XVI-XIX). In: Sonkajärvi, Hanna und Vital, André Vasques (Hrsg.): A água no Brasil. Conflitos, atores, práticas. São Paulo: Alameda. S. 101-142

Abstract

This article examines the ways in which the perception of Rio de Janeiro's drinking water contributed to shaping the city’s hydric management in colonial and imperial times. Even though the general assessment of climate and vegetation changed from paradisiacal to noxious in the second half of the eighteenth century in accordance with Enlightenment ideas, this had no effect on the locals’ appreciation of the city’s drinking water. The criteria for evaluating the quality and quantity of available water were based on works from classical antiquity and remained essentially unchanged from early colonial times to the end of the empire. Not even population growth and increasing susceptibility to epidemics in the nineteenth century induced the authorities to reform the water supply system, as they were confident that the city was provided with good and abundant water by virtue of its natural predisposition.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Publikationsform: Postprint
• Keywords: water supply; Rio de Janeiro; urban history; environment; public health, abastecimento de água; Rio de Janeiro; história urbana; meio ambiente; saúde pública, Wasserversorgung; Rio de Janeiro; Stadtgeschichte; Umwelt; öffentliche Gesundheit
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar > Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 980 Geschichte Südamerikas
• ISBN: 978-85-7939-594-9
• Ort: São Paulo
• Sprache: Portugiesisch