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Author : Robert Eugene Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Canals
ISBN : UOM:39015086473892
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89037101748
Author : Craig Colten
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822972198
Human settlement of the Lower Mississippi River Valley—especially in New Orleans, the region’s largest metropolis—has produced profound and dramatic environmental change. From prehistoric midden building to late-twentieth century industrial pollution, Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs traces through history the impact of human activity upon the environment of this fascinating and unpredictable region. In eleven essays, scholars across disciplines––including anthropology, architecture, history, natural history, and geography––chronicle how societies have worked to transform untamed wetlands and volatile floodplains into a present-day sprawling urban center and industrial complex, and how they have responded to the environmental changes brought about by the disruption of the natural setting. This new text follows the trials of native and colonial settlers as they struggled to shape the environment to fit the needs of urbanization. It demonstrates how the Mississippi River, while providing great avenues for commerce, transportation, and colonization also presented the region’s greatest threat to urban centers, and details how engineers set about taming the mighty river. Also featured is an analysis of the impact of modern New Orleans upon the surrounding rural parishes and the effect urban pollution has had on the city’s water supply and aquatic life.
Author : United States. Dept. of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reclamation of land
ISBN : PURD:32754064660461
Author : Walter G. Duffy,Darryl Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Coastal zone management
ISBN : UOM:39015086474940
Author : Joan R. Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Wetland conservation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061740754
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Continental shelf
ISBN : UCR:31210016385112
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reclamation of land
ISBN : UVA:35007001265432
Author : J. W. Day,R. G. Hunter,H. C. Clark
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030945268
For nearly a century, the energy industry had a profound impact on the Mississippi Delta, including both the natural and socio-economic systems. The purpose of this book is to describe the delta, how oil and gas (O&G) activities have impacted both natural and socio-economic systems and how much of the degradation could have been avoided. The Mississippi Delta formed over the past six thousand years but, in less than a century, lost 25 percent of coastal wetlands. O&G activities contributed significantly to this loss. O&G production began in the early 20th century and over 600 conventional fields were developed. Production ramped up rapidly, peaking around 1970, then declined. As O&G production declines, produced water dominates fluid production, and this high salinity brine is laced with a variety of toxins. Often, O&G was produced rapidly and much was left in the ground and is now technically and economically unavailable. With careful planning, this situation could have been avoided. The industry also affected the regulatory framework by weakening regulations, enforcement and impacts were not adequately addressed, and more profits flowed out of state. Thus, the state was economically and environmentally worse off. The industry should be compelled to contribute expertise and financial resources to restoration of the delta.
Author : Robert Eugene Turner,Bill Streever
Publisher : Kugler Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9051031416
Wetlands Lost. The 1,879 thousand hectares of coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) comprise 58% of the U.S. coastal wetland total (Turner and Gosselink 1975). These wetlands occur in every GOM state, although two-thirds of the GOM total are in Louisiana, and are typically associated with estuaries, bays, rivers, and the lee-side of barrier islands. The objective of this book is to facilitate and encourage the restoration of these and other wetlands by reviewing the details of construction and costs (which can range from $1 to $45,000 per hectare), and by evaluating case studies for levels of success. Each approach is presented in brief chapters outlining the essential points of "what, why, and how" the approach can be planned and implemented. The driving purpose, or goal, of this book is to accelerate regional wetland gains and to promote cost-effective practices in wetland restoration. Why do we think that this book is necessary? The area of wetlands has been diminishing almost everywhere for the last several hundred years, but particularly this century, as the twin juggernauts of population growth and per capita resource exploitation expanded. In 1927, as the Great Depression in the U.S. was about to start, there were 2 billion people on the planet. There were 6 billion people on the Earth in the year 2000 and by 2054 there will be 9 billion. Two hundred years ago there were 89.5 million ha of wetlands in the contiguous 48 U.S. states (Dahl 1990). By 1997 this area had shrunk to 42.7 million ha (Dahl 2001). From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, the annual wetland loss rate was 117,400 ha (Dahl and Johnson 1991). The official national policy of "no net loss" may be why the wetland loss rate slowed to 23.7 thousand ha yr-1 from 1986 to 1997 (Dahl 2001). Although wetland loss rates have also declined in coastal Louisiana in recent years, Louisiana experienced particularly high coastal wetland loss rates of 12.5 thousand ha yr-1 (0.86% yr-1) from 1956 to 1978 (Baumann and Turner 1990). Thus, wetland loss has become a national concern (National Research Council 1991; Dahl 2001, National Research Council 2001) and particularly in the northern Gulf of Mexico. We hope to contribute to the reversal of these wetland losses by presenting wetland restoration and creation approaches appropriate for the Northern Gulf of Mexico, and perhaps elsewhere. (taken from the introduction)
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034781898
Author : Yi Jun Xu,Nina Siu-Ngan Lam,Kam-biu Liu
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783038972563
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System" that was published in Water
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556034592048
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1686 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Power resources
ISBN : CUB:U183019900348
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031253958