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  • State of Disaster

    A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis

    par Craig E. Colten ...
    State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis explores Louisiana’s protracted efforts to restore and protect its coastal marshes, nearly always with minimal regard for the people displaced by those efforts. As Craig E. Colten shows, the state’s coastal restoration plan seeks to protect cities and industry but sacrifices the coastal dwellers who have maintained their ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Road to Love Canal

    Managing Industrial Waste before EPA

    par Craig E. Colten, Peter N. Skinner ...
    The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the passage of the Superfund legislation in 1980. To discover why disasters like Love Canal have occurred and whether they could have been averted with knowledge available to waste managers of the time, this book examines industrial waste disposal before ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Southern Waters

    The Limits to Abundance

    par Craig E. Colten ...
    Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding throughout the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina. But these images tell only half the story: as urban, industrial, and population growth create unprecedented demands on water in the South, the problems of pollution and water shortages grow ever more ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • An Unnatural Metropolis

    Wresting New Orleans from Nature

    par Craig E. Colten ...
    Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce Lewis called an "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis. Craig E. Colten traces ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • A Thousand Ways Denied

    The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana

    par John T. Arnold, Craig E. Colten ...
    Collections Livre 10 - The Natural World of the Gulf South
    From the hill country in the north to the marshy lowlands in the south, Louisiana and its citizens have long enjoyed the hard-earned fruits of the oil and gas industry’s labor. Economic prosperity flowed from pioneering exploration as the industry heralded engineering achievements and innovative production technologies. Those successes, however, often came at the expense of other natural resources ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Place with No Edge

    An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta

    par Adam Mandelman, Craig E. Colten ...
    Collections series
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Tempest

    Hurricane Naming and American Culture

    par Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten ...
    Collections series
    Liz Skilton’s innovative study tracks the naming of hurricanes over six decades, exploring the interplay between naming practice and wider American culture. In 1953, the U.S. Weather Bureau adopted female names to identify hurricanes and other tropical storms. Within two years, that convention came into question, and by 1978 a new system was introduced, including alternating male and female names ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Cities as Multiple Landscapes

    Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans

    par Christina Antenhofer, Günter Bischof, Robert L. Dupont, Gastone Ave, Bernhard Bauer, Stephanie Baur, Jochen Bonz0, Reneé Bourgogne1, Richard Campanella2, Craig Colten3, Simone Egger4, Renia Ehrenfeucht5, Flavia Guerrini6, Gerald Haselwanter7, Jürgen Hasse8, Maria Heidegger9, Julia Hörmann-Thurn und Taxis0, Alecia P. Long1, Bart Lootsma2, Tilmann Märk3, Stefano de Martino4, Wolfgang Meixner5, Berndt Ostendorf6, Dirk Rupnow7, Alexander Topf8, Dominik Unterthiner9, Philipp K. Wegerer0, Arnold Klotz1 ...
    Collections Livre 21 - Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung
    Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen Geschichte, Materialität, Mikrolandschaften und Atmosphären der Partnerstädte Innsbruck und New Orleans. Dabei stützen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren auf das Konzept der "multiplen Landschaften". ... En savoir plus

    $72.99 CAD

  • North American Odyssey

    Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century

    Modifié par Craig E. Colten, Geoffrey L. Buckley ...
    This groundbreaking volume offers a fresh approach to conceptualizing the historical geography of North America by taking a thematic rather than a traditional regional perspective. Leading geographers, building on current scholarship in the field, explore five central themes. Part I explores the settling and resettling of the continent through the experiences of Native Americans, early European ... En savoir plus

    $100.99 CAD

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  • The Source

    How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

    par Martin Doyle ...
    “An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through our economic and political landscape.” —Gerard Helferich, Wall Street JournalIn a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina ... En savoir plus

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  • Blue Revolution

    Unmaking America's Water Crisis

    par Cynthia Barnett ...
    Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what’s now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don’t realize these freshwater sources ... En savoir plus

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  • Retreat from a Rising Sea

    Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    par Orrin H. Pilkey, Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Keith C. Pilkey ...
    This sobering examination of climate-change and the disastrous effects of rising sea levels explains what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes.By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major storms will inundate areas farther inland and will lay waste to ... En savoir plus

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