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Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Hannibal-Mississippi River Reevaluation for Flood Damage Reduction
Author: Acts of God
Author: Ted SteinbergPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199838992
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative history of natural disasters in the United States. This revised edition features a new chapter analyzing the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, a disaster Steinberg warned could happen when the book first was published. Focusing on America's worst natural disasters, Steinberg argues that it is wrong to see these tragedies as random outbursts of nature's violence or expressions of divine judgment. He reveals how the decisions of business leaders and government officials have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows--America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberg explains, has helped to hide the fact that some Americans are simply better able to protect themselves from the violence of nature than others. In the face of revelations about how the federal government mishandled the Katrina calamity, this book is a must-read before further wind and water sweep away more lives. Acts of God is a call to action that needs desperately to be heard.
EIS Cumulative
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Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Water Resources Development by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Missouri
Author: The 1993 Flood on the Mississippi River in Illinois
Author: Nani G. BhowmikPublisher:
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Category : Flood damage
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The lessons learned from this flood focus on the performance of the levees, governmental responses, the effects of flood fighting, change in stages due to levee breaches, flood modeling, and the lack of information dissemination to the public on the technical aspects of the flood. These lessons point out information gaps and the need for research in the areas of hydraulics and hydrology, meteorology, sediment transport and sedimentation, surface and ground-water interactions, water quality, and levees. The report presents a comprehensive summary of the 1993 flood as far as climate, hydrology, and hydraulics are concerned.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
The Corps, the Environment, and the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Author: Raymond H. MerrittPublisher:
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Category : Environmental engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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