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The Everglades : an environmental history /
"This work for general readers and environmentalists alike offers the first major discussion of the formation, development, and history of the Everglades, considered by many to be the most endangered ecosystem in North America. Comprehensive in scope, it begins with south Florida's geologi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
1999.
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| Colección: | Florida history and culture series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1 A changing landscape; Rock, water, fire
- The mature system
- pt. 2 Changing peoples; Paleo and archaic indians
- The Calusa
- The Spanish
- pt. 3 The derelict land; The making of a derelick land, 1513-1714
- The custard apple swamp
- The everglades trough
- The Miami Rocklands
- The Mangrove fringe
- The derelict system
- pt. 4 Drainage; Nineteenth-century prelude
- The progressive drainage effort, 1903-1913
- Denouement
- pt. 5 Drainage reconsidered and pioneer settlement, 1912-1924
- Drainage reconsidered, 1912-1913
- Pioneer settlement, 1883-1924
- pt. 6 Perfecting the developmental system; Drainage in the era of the Randolph Plan, 1913-1928
- The corps of engineers, 1926-1947
- A too-dry land, 1938-1948
- Comprehensive water control begins in 1948
- pt. 7 The fruits of development; Soil productivity
- Land consolidation, 1920-1940
- Labor
- Everglades agricultural area, 1950 to the present.