Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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
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 : Drainage
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committee Report for the Southeastern Basins
Author: United States. National Resources Committee. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Drainage Basin Committee Report for the Hudson Bay Basins
Author: United States. Water Resources CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devils Lake (N.D. : Lake)
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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 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