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Silenced Rivers

Author : Patrick McCully
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Silenced Rivers written by Patrick McCully and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entirely updated in light of the recent World Commission on Dams Report, and responding to it, this new edition of Patrick McCully's now classic study shows why large dams have become such a controversial technology in both industrialized and developing countries. He explores the wide-ranging ecological impacts of large dams, the human consequences, the organization of the dam-building industry, and the role played by international banks and aid agencies in promoting it. He also looks as the extensive technical, safety, and economic problems associated with large dams. New in this edition, the author tells the story of the rapid growth of the international anti-dam movement, and suggests alternative methods of supplying the services supposedly provided by large dams.

Rivers of the World

Author : James Penn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576075796
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Rivers of the World written by James Penn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers of the World, vividly written and meticulously researched, is a rich and thorough treatment of some 200 of the world's rivers. In this comprehensive treatment of the major rivers of the world, author James R. Penn's purpose is not just to feature geographic data, but to tell a story of historical drama, poetic significance, and cultural relationships. The book shows glimpses of Chairman Mao boosting his image by swimming in the Yangtze; Indian middlemen residing on both sides of the Columbia River exacting tolls from travelers like Lewis and Clark; and, near the Dordogne in southwest France, Paleolithic cave art, paintings, and designs in rock shelters and subterranean caverns, which are textbook examples of early human creativity and artistic impulse. In nearly 200 entries ranging from a few paragraphs to several pages, Rivers of the World covers all of the great rivers of the world including the Nile, Niger, Amazon, and Mississippi, as well as smaller waterways that illustrate important themes or represent trends. The book includes bibliographies for each river.

All My Rivers are Gone

Author : Katie Lee
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555662295
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book All My Rivers are Gone written by Katie Lee and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Brower, who has always regretted the Sierra Club's failure to save the Glen Canyon, called it The Place No One Knew. But Katie Lee was among a handful of men and women who knew the 170 miles of Glen Canyon very well. She'd made sixteen trips down the river, even named some of the side canyons. Glen Canyon and the river that ran through it had changed her life. Her descriptions of a magnificent desert oasis and its rich archaeological ruins are a paean to paradise lost.In 1963, the U.S. Government's Bureau of Reclamation (the Wreck-the-nation bureau, Katie calls it) shut off the flow of the Colorado River at Glen Canyon Dam, beginning the process of flooding this natural treasure. Two generations have been born since the dam was built, and in a few more decades there may be no one alive who will have known the place. Katie Lee won't forget Glen Canyon, and she doesn't want anyone else to forget it either. She tells us what there was to love about Glen Canyon and why we should miss it. The canyon had great personal significance for her: She had gone to Hollywood to make her career as an actress and a singer, but the river kept calling her back, showing her a better way to live. She very eloquently weaves her personal story into her breathtaking descriptions of the trips she made down the canyon.In recent years, Katie has found allies in her struggle to restore the canyon. The Glen Canyon Institute has been joined by the Sierra Club in calling for the draining of Lake Powell (Rez Foul, in Katie's words), and the idea is being debated on editorial pages across the country and in congressional hearings. All My Rivers Are Gone celebrates a great American landscape, mournsits loss, and challenges us to undo the damage and forever prevent such mindless destruction in the future.

Rivers and Society

Author : Malcolm Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317396111
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Rivers and Society written by Malcolm Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utilized and altered river flows in a number of ways for millennia. However, the level of human impact on rivers, and on watershed environments, has become acute during the last hundred years or so. This book brings together empirical research and theoretical perspectives on the changing conditions of a range of river basin environments in the contemporary world, including the history and culture of local societies living in these river basins. It provides theoretical insights on the patterns and nature of the interaction between rivers and their use by human communities. The chapters are written from a variety of positions, including environmental science, hydrology, human ecology, urban studies, water management, historical geography, cultural anthropology and tourism studies. The case studies span different geographical regions, providing valuable insight on the multifaceted interactions between rivers and our societies, and on the changing riverscapes in different parts of the world. Specific detailed examples are included from Australia, Brazil, France, India, Iran, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and USA. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

River Planet

Author : Martin Gibling
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1780466587
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book River Planet written by Martin Gibling and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive introduction to the epic geological history of the world’s rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis.

Finding the Voice of the River

Author : Gary J. Brierley
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030270688
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Finding the Voice of the River written by Gary J. Brierley and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers. Brierley contends that although we have good scientific understanding of rivers, with remarkable prospect for profound improvements to river condition, management applications greatly under-deliver. He conceptualizes approaches to river repair in two very different ways: Medean (competitive) and Gaian (cooperative). Rather than ‘managing’ rivers to achieve particular anthropogenic goals (the former option), this book adopts a more-than-human approach to ‘living with living rivers’ (the latter option), applying a river rights framework that conceptualizes rivers as sentient entities. Chapters build on significant experience across many parts of the world, emphasizing the diverse array of river attributes and relationships to be protected and the wide range of problems to be addressed. Although the book has an environmental focus, it is framed as an argument in popular philosophy, contemplating the agency of rivers as place-beings. It will be of great value to academics, students and general readers interested in protecting river systems.

River Channel Management

Author : Peter Downs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1444119079
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book River Channel Management written by Peter Downs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: River Channel Management is the first book to deal comprehensively with recent revolutions in river channel management. It explores the multi-disciplinary nature of river channel management in relation to modern management techniques that bear the background of the entire drainage basin in mind, use channel restoration where appropriate, and are designed to be sustainable. River Channel Management is divided into five sections: ·The Introduction outlines the need for river channel management . ·Retrospective Review offers an overview of twentieth century engineering methods and the ways that river channel systems operate. ·Realisation explains how greater understanding of river channel adjustments, channel hazards and river basin planning created a context for twenty-first century management. ·Requirements for Management explains and examines environmental assessment, restoration-based approaches, and methods that work towards 'design with nature' ·Final Revision speculates about prospects for twenty-first century river channel management. River Channel Management is written for higher-level undergraduates and for postgraduates in geography, ecology, engineering, planning, geology and environmental science, for professionals involved in river channel management, and for staff in environmental agencies.

River Control in India

Author : Ravi Baghel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 331904432X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book River Control in India written by Ravi Baghel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large river systems throughout the planet have been dramatically transformed due to river control projects such as large dams and embankments. Unlike other major human impacts like anthropogenic climate change, the alteration of river systems has been deliberate and planned by a small, powerful set of experts. Taking India as a case study, this book examines the way experts transform the planet through their discourse by their advocacy of river projects. This book identifies the spatial aspects of the norms through which the ideal river and the deficient river in need of control are produced. The role of governmental rationality in explaining the seemingly irrational and counter-productive effects of large projects like Kosi river embankments is considered. Finally using autobiographical material, the subjectivity of expert advice is examined, questioning its presumed objectivity. By examining the different subjective stances arising from the same body of expertise, this book discusses the consequences this has for river control specifically and for the relation between expertise and environmental change in general.

A Companion to Global Environmental History

Author : J. R. McNeill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111897753X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Global Environmental History written by J. R. McNeill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Global Environmental History offers multiple points of entry into the history and historiography of this dynamic and fast-growing field, to provide an essential road map to past developments, current controversies, and future developments for specialists and newcomers alike. Combines temporal, geographic, thematic and contextual approaches from prehistory to the present day Explores environmental thought and action around the world, to give readers a cultural, intellectual and political context for engagement with the environment in modern times Brings together environmental historians from around the world, including scholars from South Africa, Brazil, Germany, and China

River Flow 2006, Two Volume Set

Author : Rui M.L. Ferreira
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1439833869
Total Pages : 2278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book River Flow 2006, Two Volume Set written by Rui M.L. Ferreira and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 2278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers are complex entities. In addition to being valuable wildlife habitats, they support human activities by providing water for human usage, renewable energy and convenient transportation. Rivers may also pose threats to riverine communities, in the form of floods and other natural or man-induced hazards.Contemporary societies recognize their re

Negotiating a River

Author : Daniel MacFarlane
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774826452
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating a River written by Daniel MacFarlane and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A megaproject half a century in the making, the planning and building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project is one of the defining episodes in North American history. Possibly the largest construction undertaking in Canadian history, and one of the most ambitious borderlands projects ever embarked upon by two countries, it also required decades of negotiation and the controversial relocation of thousands of people. Negotiating a River looks at the profound impacts of this megaproject, from the complex diplomatic negotiations, political manoeuvring, and environmental diplomacy to the implications on national identities and transnational relations.

The Administrator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Administrator written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues

Author : Karrie Lynn Pennington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107394201
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues written by Karrie Lynn Pennington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How much water does the world need to support growing human populations? What factors influence water quality, droughts, floods, and waterborne diseases? What are the potential effects of climate change on the world's water resources? These questions and more are discussed in this thorough introduction to the complex world of water resources. The strength of the book is its coverage of the fundamentals of the science of water, aquatic ecology, geomorphology and hydrology, supplemented by internet resources and examples from water resource issues in the news to engage the student. The book begins with a short history of human use and influence on water, followed by chapters on the geomorphology, hydrology, chemistry, and biology of lakes, rivers, and wetlands. Major disease issues, worldwide water quality and quantity problems, and potential solutions are addressed. Water laws, water allocation, and the conflicts involved are discussed using US and international examples. Students in departments of environmental studies, life science, Earth science, and engineering will benefit from this broad survey of these crucial issues.

Thinking Like a River

Author : Franz Krause
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839467373
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Like a River written by Franz Krause and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River.

Writing the Ancestral River

Author : Jacklyn Cock
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776141873
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Ancestral River written by Jacklyn Cock and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the Ancestral River is an illuminating and unusual biography of the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape. This tidal river runs through the centre of what used to be called the Zuurveld, a formative meeting ground of different peoples who have shaped our history: Khoikhoi herders, Xhosa pastoralists, Dutch trekboers and British settlers. Their direct descendants continue to live in the area and interact in ways that have been decisively shaped by their shared history. Besides being a social history, this is also a natural history of the river and its catchment area, where dinosaurs once roamed and cycads still grow. As the book shows, the natural world of the Kowie has felt the effects of human settlement, most strikingly through the establishment of a harbour at the mouth of the river in the 19th century and the development of a marina in the late 20th century. Both projects have had a decisive and deleterious impact on the Kowie. People are increasingly reconnecting with nature and justice through rivers. Acknowledging the past, and the inter-generational, racialised privileges, damages and denials it established and perpetuates, is necessary for any shared future. By focusing on this `little' river, the book raises larger questions about colonialism, capitalism, `development' and ecology, and asks us to consider the connections between social and environmental injustice.

Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Dispute

Author : Hilal Elver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004479430
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Peaceful Uses of International Rivers: The Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Dispute written by Hilal Elver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by a renowned environmental lawyer and scholar proposes a regime scheme that is not only based soundly on existing treaties concerning access rights to fresh water, but also on the human rights of persons dependent on rivers and lakes for water and food. Focusing on the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which is shared by Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, Professor Elver explores the transnational arrangements among these three countries for the allocation of river resources. The author clearly exposes the potential for conflict, and sets forth the role that international law can play in resolving such conflict and protecting the human rights of local populations. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

Biological Monitoring of Rivers

Author : Giuliano Ziglio
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470863773
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Biological Monitoring of Rivers written by Giuliano Ziglio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological monitoring of running waters is a scientifically and economically valid approach for surveys and monitoring programmes to assess the water quality. Biological Monitoring of Rivers is a timely, up-to-date book that includes a good number of practical how-to-do chapters. Up-to-date assessment of biological water monitoring Practical how-to-do chapters help the practitioner Provides a broad survey of methods uses inside and outside the EU Gives perspectives for future applications