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13 produkter
Road to Love Canal
Managing Industrial Waste Before EPA
Av Craig E. Colten, Peter N. Skinner
Häftad, 1995
261 kr
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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 …
Unnatural Metropolis
Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Häftad, 2006
341 kr
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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 …
Southern Waters
The Limits to Abundance
Häftad, 2014
384 kr
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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 …
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
Av Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
639 kr
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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 …
Thousand Ways Denied
The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana
Av John T. Arnold, Craig E. Colten m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
525 kr
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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 …
State of Disaster
A Historical Geography of Louisiana's Land Loss Crisis
Inbunden, 2021
458 kr
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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 …
Tempest
Hurricane Naming and American Culture
Av Liz Skilton, Craig E. Colten m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
457 kr
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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 …
North American Odyssey
Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century
Av Craig E. Colten, Geoffrey L. Buckley
Inbunden, 2014
2183 kr
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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 …
North American Odyssey
Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century
Av Craig E. Colten, Geoffrey L. Buckley
Häftad, 2014
1095 kr
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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 …
North American Odyssey
Historical Geographies for the Twenty-First Century
Av Craig E. Colten, Geoffrey L. Buckley
E-bok, 2014
1204 kr
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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 …
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms, Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive …
Place with No Edge
An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta
Av Adam Mandelman, Craig E. Colten m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
639 kr
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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 …
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
Inbunden, 2009
1235 kr
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The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms, Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive …
