The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented in conjunction with state governments and local contractors and levee districts. Karen M. O’Neill analyzes the social origins of the flood control program, showing how the system initially developed as a response to the demands of farmers and the business elite in outlying territories. The configuration of the current system continues to reflect decisions made in the nineteenth century and early twentieth. It favors economic development at the expense of environmental concerns.
O’Neill focuses on the creation of flood control programs along the lower Mississippi River and the Sacramento River, the first two rivers to receive federal flood control aid. She describes how, in the early to mid-nineteenth century, planters, shippers, and merchants from both regions campaigned for federal assistance with flood control efforts. She explains how the federal government was slowly and reluctantly drawn into water management to the extent that, over time, nearly every river in the United States was reengineered. Her narrative culminates in the passage of the national Flood Control Act of 1936, which empowered the Army Corps of Engineers to build projects for all navigable rivers in conjunction with local authorities, effectively ending nationwide, comprehensive planning for the protection of water resources.
Автор: James F. Barnett Jr. Название: Beyond Control: The Mississippi River`s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico ISBN: 1496852117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781496852113 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country’s largest river would bear national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Since 1973, the US Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico.
Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi’s move into the Atchafalaya Basin.
Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River’s impending diversion, the book’s chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, living process happening now in the twenty-first century.
Автор: Beven Keith Название: Applied Uncertainty Analysis for Flood Risk Management ISBN: 1848162707 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848162709 Издательство: World Scientific Publishing Рейтинг: Цена: 227040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Discusses flood risk management. This book addresses decision making for both short term (real-time forecasting) and long term (flood risk planning under change) situations. It is suitable for technical practitioners involved in flood risk analysis and flood warning, including hydrologists, engineers, flood modelers, and risk analysts.
As the Mississippi and other midwestern rivers inundated town after town during the summer of 1993, concerned and angry citizens questioned whether the very technologies and structures intended to "tame" the rivers did not, in fact, increase the severity of the floods. Much of the controversy swirled around the apparent culpability of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the builder of many of the flood control systems that failed.
In this book, Todd Shallat examines the turbulent first century of the dam and canal building Corps and follows the agency's rise from European antecedents through the boom years of river development after the American Civil War. Combining extensive research with a lively style, Shallat tells the story of monumental construction and engineering fiascoes, public service and public corruption, and the rise of science and the army expert as agents of the state.
More than an institutional history, Structures in the Stream offers significant insights into American society, which has alternately supported the public works projects that are a legacy of our French heritage and opposed them based on the democratic, individualist tradition inherited from Britain. It will be important reading for a wide audience in environmental, military, and scientific history, policy studies, and American cultural history.
Автор: S.N. Ghosh Название: Flood Control and Drainage Engineering, 3rd edition ISBN: 113837251X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138372511 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Thoroughly updated, this third edition covers developments in remote sensing, information technology, and GIS technology for flood forecasting, flood plain prioritization, and flood hazard zoning. New additions cover engineering for flood control, drainage improvement, and coastal aquifer management.
Автор: Mcewen Название: Flood Risk and Community Resilience ISBN: 1138954454 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138954458 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book provides an accessible synthesis of the current research, policy and practice literature on flood risk management through a community lens.
Автор: Radu-Emil Precup; Tariq Kamal; Syed Zulqadar Hassa Название: Advanced Control and Optimization Paradigms for Wind Energy Systems ISBN: 9811359946 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811359941 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 93160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book presents advanced studies on the conversion efficiency, mechanical reliability, and the quality of power related to wind energy systems. The main concern regarding such systems is reconciling the highly intermittent nature of the primary source (wind speed) with the demand for high-quality electrical energy and system stability. This means that wind energy conversion within the standard parameters imposed by the energy market and power industry is unachievable without optimization and control. The book discusses the rapid growth of control and optimization paradigms and applies them to wind energy systems: new controllers, new computational approaches, new applications, new algorithms, and new obstacles.
Автор: Ahmed Karmaoui Название: Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk and Vulnerability ISBN: 1522597719 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781522597711 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 209750.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Each year, floods cause an enormous amount of global economic and social damage, impacting transportation systems, water supplies, agriculture, and health. Response management to catastrophic floods require increased measures involving integrated planning, adaptation, and recovery strategies in order to protect against human loss. Decision Support Methods for Assessing Flood Risk and Vulnerability is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on the application of effective models and tools focused on the diagnosis of vulnerability to flooding risks and evaluates and measures the impact of floods on socio-economic wellbeing. While highlighting topics such as hydrological events, soil erosion, and flood vulnerability, this publication explores methods of identifying appropriate adaptation strategies. This book is ideally designed for researchers, students, academicians, policymakers, government officials, and technology developers seeking current empirical research findings to be used to improve the overall understanding of the flood phenomenon.
Автор: Ashok Kumar Rathoure, Pawan Kumar Chauhan Название: Current State and Future Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity ISBN: 1799812278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781799812272 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 166320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Understanding the balance of society and nature is imperative when researching ecosystems and their global influence. A method of studying the health of these ecosystems is biodiversity. The more diverse the species that live in an ecosystem, the healthier it is. As the climate continues to transform, small-scale ecosystems are affected, altering their diversity. Environmentalists need a book of research that studies the specific impacts of climate change and how it affects the future of the environment. Current State and Future Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research on biological systems and how climate change influences their health. While highlighting topics such as genetic diversity, economic valuation, and climatic conditions, this publication explores the effects of climate change as well as the methods of sustainable management within ecosystems. This book is ideally designed for environmental scientists, environmental professionals, scientists, ecologists, conservationists, government officials, policymakers, agriculturalists, environmentalists, zoologists, botanists, entomologists, urban planners, researchers, scholars, and students seeking research on current and future developments of various ecosystems.
Автор: Mashael Mohammed Al Saud Название: Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ISBN: 940240144X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789402401448 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 78350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods.
Автор: Mashael Mohammed Al Saud Название: Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ISBN: 9401796602 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401796606 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 104480.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods.
Автор: Khan Mohiuddin Название: Flood Scour for Bridges and Highways ISBN: 007182507X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780071825078 Издательство: McGraw-Hill Рейтинг: Цена: 137270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first professional publication to focus on preventing and rehabilitating dangerous bridge scour-the leading cause of bridge and highway structure failure in the U.S.
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