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Mississippi River Tragedies : A Century of Unnatural Disaster /
"American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : disasters, natural and otherwise
- An unnatural river : how we got here
- A decade of record floods (1903-1913) : the federal government tackles floods, but with levees only
- The flood of 1927 : sheltered by immunity, the corps ventures beyond the "Colossal blunder" of the levees-only policy
- The flood of 1937 : the corps builds floodways
- Mid-century floods in the Missouri River Basin : Congress promises something for almost everyone
- Hurricane Betsy of 1965 : the corps fortifies New Orleans and Congress insures floodplain residents
- The flood of 1993 : revealing the moral hazard of subsidized flood insurance
- Hurricane Katrina of 2005 : revealing the importance of coastal wetlands
- Ruined lives : trouble rains down on minorities and the poor
- Double-takes : charging taxpayers, twice
- Conclusion : how law has hurt, how law can help.