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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Summary Report of the Wilson Creek Experimental Watershed Study 1957-1982
Author: Urban Rivers
Author: Stephane CastonguayPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 082297794X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Urban Rivers examines urban interventions on rivers through politics, economics, sanitation systems, technology, and societies; how rivers affected urbanization spatially, in infrastructure, territorial disputes, and in flood plains, and via their changing ecologies. Providing case studies from Vienna to Manitoba, the chapters assemble geographers and historians in a comparative survey of how cities and rivers interact from the seventeenth century to the present. Rising cities and industries were great agents of social and ecological changes, particularly during the nineteenth century, when mass populations and their effluents were introduced to river environments. Accumulated pollution and disease mandated the transfer of wastes away from population centers. In many cases, potable water for cities now had to be drawn from distant sites. These developments required significant infrastructural improvements, creating social conflicts over land jurisdiction and affecting the lives and livelihood of nonurban populations. The effective reach of cities extended and urban space was remade. By the mid-twentieth century, new technologies and specialists emerged to combat the effects of industrialization. Gradually, the health of urban rivers improved. From protoindustrial fisheries, mills, and transportation networks, through industrial hydroelectric plants and sewage systems, to postindustrial reclamation and recreational use, Urban Rivers documents how Western societies dealt with the needs of mass populations while maintaining the viability of their natural resources. The lessons drawn from this study will be particularly relevant to today's emerging urban economies situated along rivers and waterways.
Overview and Strategies of Ephemeroptera and Plecoptera
Author: TercedorPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9781877743085
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
The papers included in this volume were presented at the VIth International Ephemeroptera Conference and the Xth International Symposium on Plecoptera, and at a Joint Symposium on Applied Aspects in the study of Mayflies and Stoneflies. One additional paper has been included, a review of the studies of on mayflies.
Wet Prairie
Author: Shannon Stunden BowerPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 077485992X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields; however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie, poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding. Shannon Stunden Bower brings to light the complexities of surface-water management in Manitoba, from early artificial drainage efforts to late-twentieth-century attempts at watershed management. She engages scholarship on the state, liberalism, and bioregionalism in order to probe the connections between human and environmental change in the wet prairie. This account of an overlooked aspect of the region’s environmental history reveals how the biophysical nature of southern Manitoba has been an important factor in the formation of Manitoba society and the provincial state.
Canadian Hydrology Symposium Proceedings
Author: Proceedings of the Canadian Hydrology Symposium No. 17- 1988
Author: National Research Council Canada. Associate Committee on HydrologyPublisher:
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Category : Basins (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Proceedings of the symposium, covering basin reviews in general and of specific locations, and basin related research, including the effects of urbanization, soil erosion, modelling and use of hydrologic data.
Annual Report, Year Ending March 31st ...
Author: Manitoba. Dept. of Natural ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Bulletin Canadien de Géophysique
Author: Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Trichoptera, Łódź-Zakopane (Poland), 12-16 September 1989
Author: Cezary TomaszewskiPublisher:
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Category : Caddisflies
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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