River republic : the fall and rise of America's rivers /

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Overview: Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates the second, brighter act in this ongoing story: the surging, grassroots movement to br...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCool, Daniel, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Rivers > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Water > Pollution > United States > History.
Stream restoration > United States.
Stream conservation > United States.
Cours d'eau > Réhabilitation > États-Unis.
Cours d'eau > Conservation > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
Rivers > Environmental aspects
Stream conservation
Stream restoration
Water > Pollution
United States
Electronic book.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Green River / William Cullen Bryant
  • Map : Selected sites
  • pt. 1. The fall
  • Crumbling edifice: The disjuncture ; Instigators ; The glen
  • Water hubris
  • Planters, sawyers, and snags : the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: "Building strong ; Not just peanuts ; Rusting rebar ; The big boo-boo ; Under siege ; The invitation
  • The manless land : the bureau of reclamation: Watery science ; The inland empire and the fifty princesses ; Dinosaur ; Dominy ; Sugar city ; Turning the corner ; Blueprint for reform ; The pendulum and the rogue ; Water ; Heritage of conflict
  • pt. 2. Dismemberment
  • Handout horticulture : farming and the Feds: The argo-industrial complex ; Fish traps ; Dying 4 water ; Crops, capitalism, and context
  • Falling waters : hydropower and renewable energy: Smolts and volts ; The scenic and the sacred ; Bucket of ashes
  • Rivers into waterways : barging, locks, and dams: Tallstacks ; Cooking the data ; Dinner buckets and party barges ; A national duty
  • Black water rising : the myth of flood control: The storm of Good Friday ; Galloway ; House-a-fire ; Coon-ass ; The house of death floats by
  • Downstream dilemma : water pollution: Toxics run through it ; Song of the Chattahoochee ; Too many federal toilets, not enough senators ; Superfund river ; Pure river of water of life
  • pt. 3. Resurrection
  • River city : urban riverscapes: Belle Isle ; River of the angels ; River of democracy and the Emerald Necklace ; A great multitude of fish ; The pleasantness of the river
  • Net losses : habitat and endangered species: Alphabet gumbo ; God bless America ; Ten thousand years of fishing ; A foot deep with fish ; The other side of the river ; Show me the money
  • Playground on the move : river recreation: Moving-water recreation ; Agents of change ; Lunkers and extreme instant shade ; Water warriors
  • The river commons: Kitty Clyde's sister ; Black-side up ; The Katrina syndrome ; Amenity rivers ; Instigators redux ; Lotic dreams.

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