Author: United States. National Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committee Report for the Tennessee and Cumberland Basins
Author: United States. National Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committee Report for the Peninsular Florida Basins
Author: United States. National Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Champlain, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Southern Waters
Author: Craig E. ColtenPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807156515
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more urgent. In Southern Waters: The Limits to Abundance, Craig E. Colten addresses how the South -- in an environment fraught with uncertainty -- can navigate the twin risks of too much water and not enough. From the arrival of the first European settlers, the South's inhabitants have pursued a course of maximum exploitation and control of the area's plentiful waters, investing widely in wetland drainage and massive flood-control projects. Disputes over southern waterways go back nearly as far: obstruction of fish migration by mill dams prompted new policies to protect aquatic life as early as the colonial era. Colten argues that such conflicts, which have heightened dramatically since the explosive urbanization of the mid-twentieth century, will only become more frequent and intense, making the shift toward sustainable use a national imperative. In tracing the evolving uses and abuses of southern waters, Colten offers crucial insights into the complex historical geography of water throughout the region. A masterful analysis of the ways in which past generations harnessed and consumed water, Southern Waters also stands as a guide to adapting our water usage to cope with the looming shortage of this once-abundant resource.
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports ...
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committee Report for the Chesapeake Bay Drainage Basins
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Literature
Author: Report of the New England Regional Planning Commission for the New England Basins
Author: New England Regional Planning CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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