Meander Making Room For Rivers

Author : Margaret Wooster
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438484693

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Meander by Margaret Wooster Pdf

Meander tells the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water. Drawing on her own experience as a watershed planner, teacher, and Great Lakes activist, Margaret Wooster describes the language, history, and failures of many of our water management policies. She then turns to Buffalo Creek to teach us how the Great Lakes work—from a "hill made of water" to a cut-off oxbow to a buried delta transitioning from two centuries of industrialization. Wooster explores how, on the Niagara Frontier especially, traditional ecological knowledge and Indigenous values were suppressed by colonial rules of settlement. The ecosystem value of physical integrity—or connectivity between upstream and down, surface flow to aquifer, river to land was never fully unpacked. While our management policies often sever them, these connections are key to Buffalo Creek and Great Lakes recovery and resilience. Wooster leaves us with the idea that it is up to us, the people who live along these flows and in their watersheds, to learn as much as we can about these connections and to use our local authorities to "make room for rivers" and protect our planet's circulatory system for future generations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031877186

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CALFED Bay-Delta Program Programmatic EIS, Long-Term Comprehensive Plan to Restore Ecosystem Health and Improve Water Management, San Francisco Bay - Sacramento/San Joaquin River Bay-Delta D,Dsum; Program Goals and Objectives, Dapp1; No Action Alternative, by Anonim Pdf

Author : Verne Huser
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1585443441

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On the River With Lewis and Clark by Verne Huser Pdf

On their remarkable journey across the North American continent, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's "Corps of Discovery" traveled almost ten thousand miles, about nine thousand of them on rivers. With an expert's eye, Verne Huser tells us what it was like to mount and carry out such an expedition. 52 photographs, 4 line drawings, map.

Author : William Morris Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Meandering rivers
ISBN : UCR:31210025033687

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Meandering Valleys and Underfit Rivers by William Morris Davis Pdf

Author : Carola Hein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030002688

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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage by Carola Hein Pdf

This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively shaped the course, form and function of water for human settlement and the development of civilizations, establishing socio-economic structures, policies and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws and practices; and an extensive network of infrastructure, buildings and urban form. The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future: part I discusses drinking water management; part II addresses water use in agriculture; part III explores water management for land reclamation and defense; part IV examines river and coastal planning; and part V focuses on port cities and waterfront regeneration. Today, the many complex systems of the past are necessarily the basis for new systems that both preserve the past and manage water today: policy makers and designers can work together to recognize and build on the traditional knowledge and skills that old structure embody. This book argues that there is a need for a common agenda and an integrated policy that addresses the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water-related structures. Throughout, it imagines how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes and bodies of water.

Author : Bill Zeedyk,Van Clothier
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781603585699

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Let the Water Do the Work by Bill Zeedyk,Van Clothier Pdf

Let the Water Do the Work is an important contribution to riparian restoration. By "thinking like a creek," one can harness the regenerative power of floods to reshape stream banks and rebuild floodplains along gullied stream channels. Induced Meandering is an artful blend of the natural sciences - geomorphology, hydrology and ecology - which govern channel forming processes. Induced Meandering directly challenges the dominant paradigm of river and creek stabilization by promoting the intentional erosion of selected banks while fostering deposition of eroded materials on an evolving floodplain. The river self-heals as the growth of native riparian vegetation accelerates the meandering process. Not all stream channel types are appropriate for Induced Meandering, yet the Induced Meandering philosophy of "going with the flow" can inform all stream restoration projects. Induced meandering strives to understand rivers as timeless entities governed by immutable rules serving their watersheds, setting their own timetables, and coping with their own realities as they carry mountains grain by grain to the sea. Anyone with an interest in natural resource management in these uncertain times should read this book and put these ideas to work.

Author : Stephanie C. Kane
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780228015307

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Just One Rain Away by Stephanie C. Kane Pdf

Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and out-of-synch flood events occur, wary cities like Winnipeg continue to depend on systems and specifications that will soon be out of date. Rivers have impulses that defy many of the basic human assumptions underpinning otherwise sophisticated technologies. This is the river-city expression of climate change. In Just One Rain Away Stephanie Kane shows how geoscience, engineering, and law converge to affect flood control in Winnipeg. She questions technicalities produced and maintained in tandem with settler folkways at the expense of the plural legal cultures of Indigenous nations. The dynamics of this experimental ethnography feel familiar yet strange: here, many of the starring actors are not human. Ice and water – materializing as bodies, elements, and digital signals – act with diatoms, diversions, sensors, sandbags, and satellites, looping theories about glacial erratics and feminist science studies into scenes from neighbourhood parks, conferences, survey maps, plays, archival photos, a novel, an emergency press conference, LiDAR images, and a lab experiment in a bathtub. Through storytelling and environmental analytics, Just One Rain Away provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and, more broadly, decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.

Author : CALFED Bay-Delta Program
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : UCR:31210018949170

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Ecosystem Restoration Program Plan: Ecological attributes of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Watershed by CALFED Bay-Delta Program Pdf

Author : Janet Donohoe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786600318

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Place and Phenomenology by Janet Donohoe Pdf

This book offers an accessible presentation of phenomenological approaches to place that draws valuable connections between different disciplines that focus on and investigate questions of place.

Author : Scott Rice-Snow
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781476645049

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Landscapes for Writers and Game Masters by Scott Rice-Snow Pdf

Landscape science tells fascinating stories, whether in fiction or a role-playing game. Earth's varied terrain provides many examples of scene-specific challenges and resources for story characters, with distinctive land features, compelling locations, and intriguing traits. Landslides, floods, coastal erosion, glacier movement, and volcanism can deliver fresh plot points and alter the social character of an imagined region. Characters traveling different river types encounter very different puzzles, opportunities, and combat environments and the same variety awaits within other classic settings, such as caves, mountains, deserts, shorelines, and volcanic zones. Atypical landscapes such as tundra, karst, and vast glacier surfaces can breathe fresh air into any stories. This handbook is a reference source for creative writing and game world building. It delves deeply into many landscape characteristics that help set the tone, shape character behavior, and drive the plot. Chapters are divided into diverse geographic environments, from rivers and shorelines to caves and volcanoes, and show how knowledge of the terrain can deliver plot points, add veracity, pose key problems, establish conflict, and lead into the next scene. Discover how authors and game masters effectively weave land and terrain into their stories.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Flood dams and reservoirs
ISBN : NYPL:33433004194506

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Levees for Upper Red River by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Donald Watson,Michele Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470475645

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Design for Flooding by Donald Watson,Michele Adams Pdf

“Design for Flooding contains considerable useful information for practitioners and students. Watson and Adams fill the void for new thinking…and they advance our ability to create more sustainable, regenerative, and resilient places.” —Landscape Architecture Magazine

Author : Jim W. Johnson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1572334908

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Rivers Under Siege by Jim W. Johnson Pdf

Rivers under Siege is a wrenching firsthand account of how human interventions, often well intentioned, have wreaked havoc on West Tennessee's fragile wetlands. For more than a century, farmers and developers tried to tame the rivers as they became clogged with sand and debris, thereby increasing flooding. Building levees and changing the course of the rivers from meandering streams to straight-line channels, developers only made matters worse. Yet the response to failure was always to try to subdue nature, to dig even bigger channels and construct even more levees-an effort that reached its sorry culmination in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' massive West Tennessee Tributaries Project during the 1960s. As a result, the rivers' natural hydrology descended into chaos, devastating the plant and animal ecology of the region's wetlands. Crops and trees died from summer flooding, as much of the land turned into useless, stagnant swamps. The author was one of a small group of state waterfowl managers who saw it all happen, most sadly within the Obion-Forked Deer river system and at Reelfoot Lake. After much trial and error, Johnson and his colleagues in the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency began by the 1980s to abandon their old methods, resorting to management procedures more in line with the natural contours of the floodplains and the natural behavior of rivers. Preaching their new stewardship philosophy to anyone who might listen-their supervisors, duck hunters, conservationists, politicians, federal agencies-they were often ignored. The campaign dragged on for twenty years before an innovative and rational plan came from the Governor's Office and gained wide support. But then, too, that plan fell prey to politics, legal wrangling, self-interest, hardheadedness, and tradition. Yet, despite such heartbreaking setbacks, the author points to hopeful signs that West Tennessee's historic wetlands might yet be recovered for the benefit of all who use them and recognize their vital importance. Jim W. Johnson, now retired, was for many years a lands management biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. He was responsible for the overall supervision and coordination of thirteen wildlife management areas and refuges, primarily for waterfowl, in northwest Tennessee.

Author : Jo Coles,Jo Payne,Alan Parkinson,Simon Ross,David Rogers
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781510476585

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OCR GCSE (9-1) Geography A Second Edition by Jo Coles,Jo Payne,Alan Parkinson,Simon Ross,David Rogers Pdf

Equip your students for the OCR GCSE (9-1) Geography A specification with our fully revised second edition Student Book. Our expert author team bring you new and revised case studies and a wealth of practice questions to help your students apply their knowledge to succeed at GCSE. - Maps the content against the specification, providing an easy-to-follow teaching pathway designed by an author team of experienced teachers and examiners - Equips students with the subject knowledge and modern case study examples they need to maximise their potential, with opportunities to undertake developmental activities for each theme - Offers you a whole-class solution for teaching including activities suitable for all learners - Embeds a focus on mathematical and statistical skills throughout by including opportunities to analyse a range of maps, graphs, GIS material and data sources - Prepares students to approach assessment confidently with practice questions of varying difficulty and handy tips for writing successful answers - Highlights possible fieldwork projects and contains guidance on carrying out fieldwork, making it easier to integrate practical and theoretical learning

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951D003312677

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Geological Survey Professional Paper by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf