Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II: Geology
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II: Hydrology and climatology
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II: Land resources
Author: United States. Bureau of ReclamationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Concrete Revolution
Author: Christopher SneddonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628431X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
"Concrete Revolution "offers a compelling historical account of the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation's contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the U.S. government in its pursuit of capitalist economic development. Founded in 1902, the Bureau amassed geopolitical power after the Second World War, in response to the Soviet Union's increasing global influence. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world's underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance, and provide the U.S. with investment opportunities, but also gain alliances for the U.S. and further the country's global standing in the face of a burgeoning communist regime. The book includes a number of case studies, from the Bureau's foray into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950, to specific projects such as the Litani River initiative in Lebanon, the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia, and the Mekong river basin development project in mainland Southeast Asia, the bureau's longest international undertaking, which affected Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. If, Sneddon argues, we can come to understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than mere instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Committee Prints
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (1789-1975)Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1676
Book Description
Science, Technology and American Diplomacy; the Mekong Project
Author: United States. Congress. Hosue. Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
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