Author: Joséphine RouillardPublisher:
ISBN: 9782918251095
Category : Landscape
Languages : fr
Pages : 55
Book Description
L'eau dans les campagnes du bassin de la Seine avant l'ère industrielle
Author: Joséphine RouillardPublisher:
ISBN: 9782918251095
Category : Landscape
Languages : fr
Pages : 55
Book Description
The Seine River Basin
Author: Nicolas FlipoPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030542602
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
This open access book reviews the water-agro-food and socio-eco-system of the Seine River basin (76,000 km2), and offers a historical perspective on the river’s long-term contamination. The Seine basin is inhabited by circa 17 million people and is impacted by intensive agricultural practices and industrial activities. These pressures have gradually affected its hydrological, chemical and ecological functioning, leading to a maximum chemical degradation between the 1960s and the 1990s. Over the last three decades, while major water-quality improvements have been observed, new issues (e.g. endocrine disruptors, microplastics) have also emerged. The state of the Seine River network, from the headwaters to estuary, is increasingly controlled by the balance between pressures and social responses. This socio-ecosystem provides a unique example of the functioning of a territory under heavy anthropogenic pressure during the Anthropocene era. The achievements made were possible due to the long-term PIREN Seine research program, established in 1989 and today part of the French socio-ecological research network “Zones Ateliers”, itself part of the international Long-term Socio-economic and Ecological Research Network (LTSER). Written by experts in the field, the book provides an introduction to the water budget and the territorial metabolism of the Seine basin, and studies the trajectories and impact of various pollutants in the Seine River. It offers insights into the ecological functioning, the integration of agricultural practices, the analysis of aquatic organic matter, and the evolution of fish assemblages in the Seine basin, and also presents research perspectives and approaches to improve the water quality of the Seine River. Given its scope, it will appeal to environmental managers, scientists and policymakers interested in the long-term contamination of the Seine River.
Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained
Author: Martin KnollPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981599
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
L'Eau et l'industrie dans le bassin de la Seine de Montereau à l'Estuaire : le rôle de l'eau dans les localisations industrielles
Author: Paul Louis PannierLa pollution du bassin de la Seine par les nitrates
Author: Agence de l'eau Seine-NormandiePublisher:
ISBN: 9782918251026
Category : Water
Languages : fr
Pages : 43
Book Description
L'EAU ET L'INDUSTRIE DANS LE BASSIN DE LA SEINE DE MONTEREAU A L'ESTUAIRE. LE ROLE DE L'EAU DANS LES LOCALISATIONS INDUSTRIELLES
Author: Paul Louis PannierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
Book Description
L'ETUDE DE LA LOCALISATION DES INDUSTRIES DANS LE BASSIN DE LA SEINE FAIT APPARAITRE UNE IMPLANTATION PRIVILEGIEE EN RIVE DES COURS D'EAU. LA PRESENCE DE L'EAU EST IMPORTANTE PAR DEUX ASPECTS. D'ABORD LA POSSIBILITE DE POMPER EN SURFACE DE GROS VOLUMES D'EAU UTILISEE DANS LE CYCLE DE FABRICATION, A UN COUT TRES BAS, ENSUITE L'APTITUDE DE LA VOIE D'EAU AU TRANSPORT DE MARCHANDISES VOLUMINEUSES, EN VRAC OU EN MASSES LOURDES INDIVISIBLES DANS LES MEILLEURES CONDITIONS TECHNIQUES ET DE RENTABILITE. CERTAINS GRANDS ETABLISSEMENTS INDUSTRIELS UTILISENT L'EAU SOUS SES DEUX ASPECTS, VALORISANT AINSI AU MIEUX LEUR SITE D'IMPLANTATION. LE CAS LE PLUS REMARQUABLE EST CELUI DE RENAULT AVEC LA CONSTRUCTION DE CINQ USINES RIVERAINES DE PARIS AU HAVRE. L'UTILISATION OPTIMALE DE L'EAU IMPLIQUANT DES INSTALLATIONS DE PLUS EN PLUS COMPLEXES, LES INDUSTRIES PEUVENT ETRE AMENEES A SE REGROUPER DANS DES ZONES INDUSTRIALO-PORTUAIRES DISPOSANT D'INFRASTRUCTURES TRES COMPLETES - MOYENS DE TRANSPORT DES DIVERS MODES, EQUIPEMENTS DE MANUTENTION, ENTREPOTS - COMME CELLES QU'AMENAGE SUR LA BASSE-SEINE LE PORT AUTONOME DE PARIS.
Les Bassins de la Seine et des cours d'eau normands
Author: Monographie du bassin versant de la Seine de Paris à Poses
Author: Mission scientifique de l'eau Seine-NormandiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 415
Book Description
Water & Heritage
Author: Willem WillemsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789088903861
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Water is vital for life, and its availability has been a concern for mankind throughout the ages. Its presence has always been ascertained in a variety of ways and the development of human society everywhere is connected with various forms of water management. Man also needed to manage water to find protection from its dangers and the need for that is increasing. In the coming decades, the impact of climate change is expected to intensify floods and droughts, affect groundwater resources, raise sea levels, increase pollution and enhance the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Societies around the world are challenged to adapt to these threats to ensure water security, economic prosperity and environmental and cultural sustainability. This book deals with the heritage of water management and the use that was made of water, as well as the impact of water management on heritage. An example of the former may be an ancient irrigation system in the Filipines or in the Middle East that still functions today, while the latter may reflect the importance of maintaining groundwater levels for the preservation of organic remains on archaeological sites or of wooden piles underneath standing buildings. In either case the papers in this book reflect the dynamic nature of water, and hence the equally dynamic relation between water management and heritage. This publication follows up on a Heritage and Water conference in Amsterdam, the first of its kind. Its main purpose is to credibly present the importance and value of heritage and historical experience for water and sustainable development, and vice versa, present the importance of water management for the protection of heritage. It presents evolving insights and concepts about Water and about Heritage from a variety of disciplines, policy and public perspectives illustrated with cases studies and aims to connect decision makers with experts such as engineers, archaeologists, historians, geographers, ecologist and landscape architects
The Social Project
Author: Kenny CupersPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452941068
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning History Honorable Mention: 2016 Wylie Prize in French Studies In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century’s greatest social and architectural experiments: transforming a mostly rural country into a modernized urban nation. Through the state-sanctioned construction of mass housing and development of towns on the outskirts of existing cities, a new world materialized where sixty years ago little more than cabbage and cottages existed. Known as the banlieue, the suburban landscapes that make up much of contemporary France are near-opposites of the historic cities they surround. Although these postwar environments of towers, slabs, and megastructures are often seen as a single utopian blueprint gone awry, Kenny Cupers demonstrates that their construction was instead driven by the intense aspirations and anxieties of a broad range of people. Narrating the complex interactions between architects, planners, policy makers, inhabitants, and social scientists, he shows how postwar dwelling was caught between the purview of the welfare state and the rise of mass consumerism. The Social Project unearths three decades of architectural and social experiments centered on the dwelling environment as it became an object of modernization, an everyday site of citizen participation, and a domain of social scientific expertise. Beyond state intervention, it was this new regime of knowledge production that made postwar modernism mainstream. The first comprehensive history of these wide-ranging urban projects, this book reveals how housing in postwar France shaped both contemporary urbanity and modern architecture.