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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Citizens' Report on the Diked Historic Baylands of San Francisco Bay
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Category : Environmental protection
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Wetland Creation and Restoration: Regional reviews
Author: Jon A. KuslerPublisher:
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Category : Wetland conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Wetland Creation and Restoration
Author: Jon A. KuslerPublisher:
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Category : Restoration ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Staff Report on Activities in the Diked Historic Baylands
Author: San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Estuarine area conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 13
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The Country in the City
Author: Richard A. WalkerPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295989734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman Award Finalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008). The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines, creeks, and wetlands. In The Country in the City, Richard Walker tells the story of how the jigsaw geography of this greenbelt has been set into place. The Bay Area’s civic landscape has been fought over acre by acre, an arduous process requiring popular mobilization, political will, and hard work. Its most cherished environments--Mount Tamalpais, Napa Valley, San Francisco Bay, Point Reyes, Mount Diablo, the Pacific coast--have engendered some of the fiercest environmental battles in the country and have made the region a leader in green ideas and organizations. This book tells how the Bay Area got its green grove: from the stirrings of conservation in the time of John Muir to origins of the recreational parks and coastal preserves in the early twentieth century, from the fight to stop bay fill and control suburban growth after the Second World War to securing conservation easements and stopping toxic pollution in our times. Here, modern environmentalism first became a mass political movement in the 1960s, with the sudden blooming of the Sierra Club and Save the Bay, and it remains a global center of environmentalism to this day. Green values have been a pillar of Bay Area life and politics for more than a century. It is an environmentalism grounded in local places and personal concerns, close to the heart of the city. Yet this vision of what a city should be has always been informed by liberal, even utopian, ideas of nature, planning, government, and democracy. In the end, green is one of the primary colors in the flag of the Left Coast, where green enthusiasms, like open space, are built into the fabric of urban life. Written in a lively and accessible style, The Country in the City will be of interest to general readers and environmental activists. At the same time, it speaks to fundamental debates in environmental history, urban planning, and geography.
Wetland Creation and Restoration
Author: Mary E. KentulaPublisher:
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Category : Restoration ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Proceedings of the Seventh Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, March 25-29, 2001, Reno, Nevada, USA
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Category : Sedimentation and deposition
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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The Saving of San Francisco Bay
Author: Rice OdellRestoring and Protecting Marine Habitat
Author: Division on Engineering and Physical SciencesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309048435
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Tremendous changes have occurred this century in the nation's coastal habitats, in the way society views them, and in the way they are managed. This volume offers a complete, highly readable assessment of how scientific knowledge and coastal engineering capabilities can be more effectively used to protect and restore marine habitat. It addresses traditional and innovative uses of technology to protect remaining natural marine habitats, to enhance or restore those that have been altered, and to create marine habitat from lands used for other purposes. The use of dredged materials as a vital resource in protection and restoration work is explored. The book also explores organizational, management, and regulatory barriers to using the best available technology and engineering practice. Specific options for improvements are offered in each area.
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