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Author : Sally Akers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Interaction of Land, Water, and Man in the Lower Mississippi Delta written by Sally Akers and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mikko Saikku
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820340693
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book This Delta, this Land written by Mikko Saikku and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.
Author : Yi Jun Xu
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3038972568
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System written by Yi Jun Xu and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System" that was published in Water
Author : Adam Mandelman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807173185
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Place with No Edge written by Adam Mandelman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.
Author : Sherwood M. Gagliano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Controlled Diversions in the Mississippi Delta System written by Sherwood M. Gagliano and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Lower Mississippi Delta Region written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Bianchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107022576
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Biogeochemical Dynamics at Major River-Coastal Interfaces written by Thomas Bianchi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, state-of-the-art synthesis of biogeochemical dynamics and the impact of human alterations at major river-coastal interfaces for advanced students and researchers.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Lower Mississippi Delta Region: Heritage study written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Day
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319656635
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)
Download or read book Mississippi Delta Restoration written by John W. Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a new and provocative treatment dealing with and defining sustainable pathways for the restoration of the Mississippi Delta. Based on a consideration of natural functioning of the Mississippi delta, factors that led to its severe deterioration, and major global trajectories of the 21st century, the authors investigate possible future pathways for sustainable management of the delta. They consider current conditions as well as future trajectories of climate and energy and resource scarcity. The book concludes that without profound changes of how humans live in and manage the delta, sustainability of the delta will be profoundly compromised.
Author : Robert W. Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Alluvial Empire: A study of State and local efforts toward land development in the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River, including flood control, land drainage, land clearing, land forming written by Robert W. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lower Mississippi Delta Development Act written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309177812
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
Author : D.C. Mosher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048130719
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences written by D.C. Mosher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent global events such as the devastating 1998 Papua New Guinea tsunami, the 2004 Sumatran tsunami and the 2006 SE Asia undersea network cable failure underscore the societal and economic effects of submarine mass movements. These events call upon the scientific community to understand submarine mass movement processes and consequences to assist in hazard assessment, mitigation and planning. Additionally, submarine mass movements are beginning to be recognized as prevalent in continental margin geologic sections. As such, they represent a significant if not dominant role in margin sedimentary processes. They also represent a potential hazard to hydrocarbon exploration and development, but also represent exploration indicators and targets. This volume consists of a collection of the latest scientific research by international experts in geological, geophysical, engineering and environment aspects of submarine mass failures, focussed on understanding the full spectrum of challenges presented by submarine mass movements and their consequences.
Author : Mikko Saikku
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820326733
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)
Download or read book This Delta, this Land written by Mikko Saikku and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This environmental history of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta places the Delta's economic and cultural history in an environmental context. It reveals the human aspects of the region's natural history, including land reclamation, slave and sharecropper economies, ethnic and racial perceptions of land ownership and stewardship, and even blues music.
Author : Jeannie R. B. Barlow
Publisher : Geological Survey (USGS)
ISBN 13 : 9781411330986
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Simulation of Water-Use Conservation Scenarios for the Mississippi Delta Using an Existing Regional Groundwater Flow Model written by Jeannie R. B. Barlow and published by Geological Survey (USGS). This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clyde Adrian Woods
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859848111
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Development Arrested written by Clyde Adrian Woods and published by Verso. This book was released on 1998 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the two-centuries-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. Ranging across disciplines as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies and anthropology, it provides a unique assessment of the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations at first hand.
Author : Beatrix Casiano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book Building Resilience written by Beatrix Casiano and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have altered the natural flow of the Mississippi River Delta through settlement structures and a layered set of scalar infrastructural systems creating a complex hybrid landscape. These changes to the natural landscape at the largest scale, compounded by non-porous surfaces and unconnected green spaces and water systems at the city scale, are exacerbated by climate change, especially in low lying neighbourhoods. Historically, racialized and social inequalities segregated people of colour to low lying areas which make the issues of climate change challenging to recover from. The design proposal for the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans uses architecture as a mediator connecting land-water infrastructures and people with social programming to engage and bring awareness to issues of climate change, while empowering the community through resilience. The theoretical framework of ecological urbanism brings together natural and infrastructural systems using intersectionality to connect ecology and hydrology to the neighbourhood.
