Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bureau of Reclamation Manual: Water studies
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reclamation of land
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reclamation Manual
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Reclamation Safety and Health Standards
Author: Water Measurement Manual
Author: Reclamation Manual
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Concrete Revolution
Author: Christopher SneddonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department’s push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union’s increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world’s underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country’s global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies—from the Bureau’s early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia—Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.
Reclamation Manual: Design and construction, pt. 2. Engineering design: Design supplement no. 2: Treatise on dams; Design supplement no. 3: Canals and related structures; Design supplement no. 4: Power systems; Design supplement no. 5: Field installation procedures; Design supplement no. 7: Valves, gates, and steel conduits; Design supplement no. 8: Miscellaneous mechanical equipment and facilities; Design supplement no. 9: Buildings; Design supplement no. 10: Transmission structures; Design supplement no. 11: Railroads, highways, and camp facilities
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Design of Small Dams
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrages
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Environmental and Water Resources History
Author: Jerry R. RogersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Annotation Twenty-four contributions address the history of various government and academic organizations that have played a role in the nation's water resources and environmental activities. Papers address topics including environmental engineering history and developments, hydraulic engineering pioneers, Bureau of Reclamation history and developments, university water and hydraulic education and research, hydrology and water resource planning, and an invited paper discussing the history of life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama rivers. Six contributions discuss the formation of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) and the history of ASCE technical divisions and codes and standards activities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author: United States