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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Notes on Sedimentation Activities
Author: Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather
Author: Shirley LaskaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030272052
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book takes an in-depth look at Louisiana as a state which is ahead of the curve in terms of extreme weather events, both in frequency and magnitude, and in its responses to these challenges including recovery and enhancement of resiliency. Louisiana faced a major tropical catastrophe in the 21st century, and experiences the fastest rising sea level. Weather specialists, including those concentrating on sea level rise acknowledge that what the state of Louisiana experiences is likely to happen to many more, and not necessarily restricted to coastal states. This book asks and attempts to answer what Louisiana public officials, scientists/engineers, and those from outside of the state who have been called in to help, have done to achieve resilient recovery. How well have these efforts fared to achieve their goals? What might these efforts offer as lessons for those states that will be likely to experience enhanced extreme weather? Can the challenges of inequality be truly addressed in recovery and resilience? How can the study of the Louisiana response as a case be blended with findings from later disasters such as New York/New Jersey (Hurricane Sandy) and more recent ones to improve understanding as well as best adaptation applications – federal, state and local?
Brokenburn
Author: John Q. AndersonPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807120170
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.
Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History
Author: Allen Howard GodbeyPublisher:
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Category : Disasters
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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The Columbia Magazine
Author: Crooks Site, a Marksville Period Burial Mound in the La Salle Parish, Louisiana
Author: James Alfred FordPublisher:
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Category : La Salle Parish (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Planting the Southern Pines
Author: Philip Carman WakeleyPublisher:
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Category : Afforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Archeology of Mississippi
Author: Calvin Smith BrownPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Author: James T. TannerPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486148750
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
All who seek this elusive bird rely on this 1942 profile of the species' characteristics and habits including its original distribution patterns; history of its disappearance; feeding, nesting, breeding habits. 20 halftones, 17 tables, 22 other illustrations.
Agricultural Conservation Program
Author: United States. Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation ServicePublisher:
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Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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