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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Yazoo Basin Delta Flood Control
Author: Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands
Author: Paul F. HudsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768608
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.
The Mississippi
Author: Quinta ScottPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826218407
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
"A photographic documentation of the Mississippi River, illustrating the geographical and botanical features of the river and its wetlands. Using 200 color photographs and accompanying vignettes, Scott explains how we have changed each site depicted, howwe try to manage and restore it, and the wildlife that occupies it"--Provided by publisher.
Mississippi Floods
Author: Anuradha MathurPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300084307
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
"Each time the waters of the mighty Mississippi River overflow their banks, questions arise anew about the battle between "man" and "river". How can we prevent floods and the damage they inflict while maintaining navigational potential and protecting the river's ecology?" "The design of the Mississippi and how it should proceed has long been a subject of controversy. What is missing from the discussion, say the authors of this book, is an understanding of the representations of the Mississippi River. Landscape architect Anuradha Mathur and architect/planner Dilip da Cunha draw together an array of perspectives on the river and show how these different images have played a role in the process of designing and containing the river landscape. Analyzing maps, hydrographs, working models, drawings, photographs, government and media reports, painting, and even folklore, Mathur and da Cunha consider what these representations of the river portray, what they leave out, and why that might be. With original silk screen prints and a selection of maps, the book joins historic, scientific, engineering, and natural views of the river to create an entirely new portrait of the great Mississippi."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Mississippi River Tragedies
Author: Christine A. KleinPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479825387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Read a free excerpt here! American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a thousand miles of roiling currents into a placid staircase of water, and wresting the lower half of the river apart from its floodplain. American law has aided and abetted these feats. But despite our best efforts, so-called “natural disasters” continue to strike the Mississippi basin, as raging floodwaters decimate waterfront communities and abandoned towns literally crumble into the Gulf of Mexico. In some places, only the tombstones remain, leaning at odd angles as the underlying soil erodes away. Mississippi River Tragedies reveals that it is seductively deceptive—but horribly misleading—to call such catastrophes “natural.” Authors Christine A. Klein and Sandra B. Zellmer present a sympathetic account of the human dreams, pride, and foibles that got us to this point, weaving together engaging historical narratives and accessible law stories drawn from actual courtroom dramas. The authors deftly uncover the larger story of how the law reflects and even amplifies our ambivalent attitude toward nature—simultaneously revering wild rivers and places for what they are, while working feverishly to change them into something else. Despite their sobering revelations, the authors’ final message is one of hope. Although the acknowledgement of human responsibility for unnatural disasters can lead to blame, guilt, and liability, it can also prod us to confront the consequences of our actions, leading to a liberating sense of possibility and to the knowledge necessary to avoid future disasters.
The Yazoo River
Author: Frank E. SmithPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9780878053551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the United States, the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo
Projects Proposed for Inclusion in Omnibus River and Harbor and Flood Control Legislation - 1972
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Rivers and HarborsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Comprehensive Flood-control Plans on H.R. 9640
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood ControlPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
Omnibus Water Resources Authorizations - 1972, Hearings Before Teh Subcommittee on Flood Control - Rivers and Harbors ..., 92-1, June 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, and 28, 1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Rising Tide
Author: John M. BarryPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416563326
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever. The flood brought with it a human storm: white and black collided, honor and money collided, regional and national powers collided. New Orleans’s elite used their power to divert the flood to those without political connections, power, or wealth, while causing Black sharecroppers to abandon their land to flee up north. The states were unprepared for this disaster and failed to support the Black community. The racial divides only widened when a white officer killed a Black man for refusing to return to work on levee repairs after a sleepless night of work. In the powerful prose of Rising Tide, John M. Barry removes any remaining veil that there had been equality in the South. This flood not only left millions of people ruined, but further emphasized the racial inequality that have continued even to this day.