Author: Louisiana Board of State Engineers
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Category : Bayous
Languages : en
Pages : 668

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Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.

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Category : Public works
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Author: Adam Mandelman
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807173193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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In The Place with No Edge, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people’s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with—rather than independence from—the environment. Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana’s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with—and vulnerable to—it. The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system’s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming’s rising seas and strengthening storms. The Place with No Edge advocates for a deeper understanding of humans’ relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment—whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable —inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.

Author: Michigan State Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 910

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Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.

Author: New Hampshire State Library
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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