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Unruly River
Author | : Robert Kelley Schneiders |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015043114985 |
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This text takes a long historical view to reconstruct the Missouri Valley environment before Euro-American settlement and then trace the environmental transformations resulting from the development projects of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Unruly Waters
Author | : Kenna Lang Archer |
Publsiher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826355874 |
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This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.
Unruly Waters
Author | : Sunil Amrith |
Publsiher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2018-12-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780465097739 |
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From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.
Big Sky Rivers
Author | : Robert Kelley Schneiders |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015059980345 |
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To frame his story, Schneiders goes back to the nineteenth-century journals of fur traders and settlers and in the record of flora, fauna, floods, and human activity he finds evidence of rapid and disruptive change. Bison once had the greatest influence on the land, and Schneiders depicts an original bison and Indian trail networks on which were overlaid the first torts and towns and then the railroads, highways, and reservoirs that reconfigured the region forever.
Public Works for Water and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1974
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 2424 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : MINN:31951P01180988C |
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The Missouri River Ecosystem
Author | : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Missouri River Ecosystem Science |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2002-07-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309170031 |
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The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery resulted from a study conducted at the request of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The nation's longest river, the Missouri River and its floodplain ecosystem experienced substantial environmental and hydrologic changes during the twentieth century. The context of Missouri River dam and reservoir system management is marked by sharp differences between stakeholders regarding the river's proper management regime. The management agencies have been challenged to determine the appropriate balance between these competing interests. This Water Science and Technology Board report reviews the ecological state of the river and floodplain ecosystem, scientific research of the ecosystem, and the prospects for implementing an adaptive management approach, all with a view toward helping move beyond ongoing scientific and other differences. The report notes that continued ecological degradation of the ecosystem is certain unless some portion of pre-settlement river flows and processes were restored. The report also includes recommendations to enhance scientific knowledge through carefully planned and monitored river management actions and the enactment of a Missouri River Protection and Recovery Act.
River Dreams
Author | : Ian Tyrrell |
Publsiher | : NewSouth |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-03-01 |
Genre | : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |
ISBN | : 9781742244150 |
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In the beginning, there was the river — before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions that altered the stream. River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney — a river renowned as Australia’s most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it ‘improvement’, the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. Local Aboriginal people became fringe dwellers, and over time the river became severely compromised, with many ecosystems damaged or destroyed. Later, a large section was turned into a concrete canal, and in the late 1940s the river was rerouted for the expansion of Sydney Airport. While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent decades by passionate local groups and through government initiatives, it continues to be a source of controversy with rapid apartment development placing new stresses on the region. River Dreams is a timely reminder of the need to tread cautiously in seeking to dominate, or ignore, our environment. A beautiful book that reminds us that Australians are river people as much as we are bush or coast dwellers.’ — IAN HOSKINS
Transforming the James River in Richmond
Author | : Ralph Hambrick |
Publsiher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-04-06 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781439669525 |
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The James River is the centerpiece of Richmond, but by the mid-twentieth century it had been abused and neglected. Eagles and sturgeon had nearly disappeared, water-powered industry was abandoning it and the river was a sewer. Today, the river draws visitors to its wooded shorelines, restored canal and feisty rapids. At the local level, this transformation was the result of citizen action, public-private partnerships, difficult decisions by governmental leaders and the hard work of thousands of passionate advocates and volunteers. Local author and lifelong river watcher Ralph Hambrick chronicles the events, projects and controversies that brought about the dramatic change and lends a critical eye to the results.