Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Library Systems BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Library System Book Catalog Holdings as of July 1973
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Library Systems BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
The Wired Northwest
Author: Paul W. HirtPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700618732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Pacific Northwest holds an abundance of resources for energy production, from hydroelectric power to coal, nuclear power, wind turbines, and even solar panels. But hydropower is king. Dams on the Columbia, Snake, Fraser, Kootenay, and dozens of other rivers provided the foundation for an expanding, regionally integrated power system in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. A broad historical synthesis chronicling the region's first century of electrification, Paul Hirt's new study reveals how the region's citizens struggled to build a power system that was technologically efficient, financially profitable, and socially and environmentally responsible. Hirt shows that every energy source comes with its share of costs and benefits. Because Northwest energy development meant river development, the electric power industry collided with the salmon fishing industry and the treaty rights of Northwest indigenous peoples from the 1890s to the present. Because U.S. federal agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation built many of the large dams in the region, a significant portion of the power supply is publicly owned, initiating contentious debates over how that power should best serve the citizens of the region. Hirt dissects these ongoing battles, evaluating the successes and failures of regional efforts to craft an efficient yet socially just power system. Focusing on the dynamics of problem-solving, governance, and the tense relationship between profit-seeking and the public interest, Hirt's narrative takes in a wide range of players-not only on the consumer side, where electricity transformed mills, mines, households, commercial districts, urban transit, factories, and farms, but also power companies operating at the local and regional level, and investment companies that financed and in some cases parasitized the operators. His study also straddles the international border. It is the first book to compare energy development in the U.S. Northwest and British Columbia. Both engaging and balanced in its treatment of all the actors on this expansive stage, The Wired Northwest helps us better understand the challenges of the twenty-first century, as we try to learn from past mistakes and re-design an energy grid for a more sustainable future.
Dictionary Catalog of the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of the Interior. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare: 1904-1939
Author: Mary C. RabbittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral lands
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defense and General Welfare
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Contains annual, time-series data with national coverage on almost any aspect of United States economics, population or infrastructure since the government began recording statistics. Part 1 covers: Population. Vital statistics and health and medical care. Migration. Labor. Prices and price indexes. National income and wealth. Consumer income and expenditures. Social statistics. Land, water, and climate. Agriculture. Forestry and fisheries. Minerals. Part 2 covers: Construction and housing. Manufactures. Transportation. Communications. Energy. Distribution and services. International transactions and foreign commerce. Business enterprise. Productivity and technological development. Financial markets and institutions.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Library System Book Catalog
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Library Systems BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Includes the monographic collection of the 28 libraries comprising the Library System of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hydrogeology and Simulation of Ground-water Flow and Land-surface Subsidence in the Chicot and Evangeline Aquifers, Houston Area, Texas
Author: Mark C. KasmarekPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Land and Water 1900-1970
Author: F.E. SmithThe Missouri River Basin Comprehensive Framework Study: Appendix: land resources availability, hydrologic analysis and projections
Author: Missouri Basin Inter-agency CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missouri River
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description