Author: Publisher:
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Category : Rare animals
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Technical Note
Author: Proceedings
Author: Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309679702
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.
Earth Resources
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronautics in earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
From Warfare to Welfare
Author: Jennifer S. LightPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801882739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and aerospace research and development spawned a variety of problem-solving techniques, technologies, and institutions. From systems analysis to reconnaissance satellites to think tanks, these innovations did not remain exclusive accessories of the defense establishment. Instead, they readily found civilian applications in both the private and public sector. City planning and management were no exception. Jennifer Light argues that the technologies and values of the Cold War fundamentally shaped the history of postwar urban America. From Warfare to Welfare documents how American intellectuals, city leaders, and the federal government chose to attack problems in the nation's cities by borrowing techniques and technologies first designed for military engagement with foreign enemies. Experiments in urban problem solving adapted the expertise of defense professionals to face new threats: urban chaos, blight, and social unrest. Tracing the transfer of innovations from military to city planning and management, Light reveals how a continuing source of inspiration for American city administrators lay in the nation's preparations for war.
Land Information Systems
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service. Natural Resource Economics DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Integrated Inventories of Renewable Natural Resources
Author: A Land Use and Land Cover Classification System for Use with Remote Sensor Data
Author: James Richard AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land cover
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Annotated Bibliography of the Lakes, Ponds, and Reservoirs of New York State Through 1974 (exclusive of Lakes Erie and Ontario)
Author: Gerald K. SchultzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Use of Less-than-fee Acquisition for the Preservation of Open Space
Author: Robert E. CoughlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description