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Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the North Atlantic Basins
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
Drainage Basin Committee Report for the Peninsular Florida Basins
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Drainage Basin CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
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 for the Carolina Coastal and Savannah Basins
Author: Drainage Basin Committees' Reports
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports ...
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
Our Public Works Experience
Author: United States. National Resources Planning BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Urban Rivers
Author: Stéphane CastonguayPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082297794X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in floodplains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interacted from the seventeenth century to the present. Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and disease mandated the transfer of wastes away from population centers. In many cases, potable water for cities now had to be drawn from distant sites. These developments required significant infrastructural improvements, creating social conflicts over land jurisdiction and affecting the lives and livelihood of nonurban populations. The effective reach of cities extended and urban space was remade. By the mid-twentieth century, new technologies and specialists emerged to combat the effects of industrialization. Gradually, the health of urban rivers improved. From protoindustrial fisheries, mills, and transportation networks, through industrial hydroelectric plants and sewage systems, to postindustrial reclamation and recreational use, Urban Rivers documents how Western societies dealt with the needs of mass populations while maintaining the viability of their natural resources. The lessons drawn from this study will be particularly relevant to today's emerging urban economies situated along rivers and waterways.
Drainage Basin Committees' Reports for the Upper and Middle Missouri Basins
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Category : Missouri River Watershed
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description