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Author : Joseph L. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Flood control
ISBN : IND:30000038986950
Author : Joseph L. Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Flood control
ISBN : IND:30000129966770
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Flood control
ISBN : UOM:39015067181753
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Flood control
ISBN : SRLF:A0009595554
Author : Karen M. O'Neill
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0822337738
DIVA sociological history of flood control politics that examines how local and regional pro-growth interests organized to press the federal government to protect land from flooding, and how this action altered the relationship between regions and the federa/div
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Flood control
ISBN : MINN:31951D035990679
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Floods
ISBN : UOM:39015067185697
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Flood control
ISBN : LOC:00118042475
Author : David Welky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226887180
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused more than half a billion dollars of damage at a time when the Great Depression still battered the nation. Timed to coincide with the flood's seventy-fifth anniversary, The Thousand-Year Flood is the first comprehensive history of one of the most destructive disasters in American history. David Welky first shows how decades of settlement put Ohio valley farms and towns at risk and how politicians and planners repeatedly ignored the dangers. Then he tells the gripping story of the river's inexorable rise: residents fled to refugee camps and higher ground, towns imposed martial law, prisoners rioted, Red Cross nurses endured terrifying conditions, and FDR dispatched thousands of relief workers. In a landscape fraught with dangers—from unmoored gas tanks that became floating bombs to powerful currents of filthy floodwaters that swept away whole towns—people hastily raised sandbag barricades, piled into overloaded rowboats, and marveled at water that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the flood's aftermath, Welky explains, New Deal reformers, utopian dreamers, and hard-pressed locals restructured not only the flood-stricken valleys, but also the nation's relationship with its waterways, changes that continue to affect life along the rivers to this day. A striking narrative of danger and adventure—and the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disaster—The Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little-remembered American story.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Flood control
ISBN : UOM:39015049237863
Author : John Copeland Nagle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300162912
John Copeland Nagle shows how our reliance on environmental law affects the natural environment through an examination of five diverse places in the American landscape: Alaska's Adak Island; the Susquehanna River; Colton in California's Inland Empire; Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the badlands of North Dakota; and Alamogordo in New Mexico. Nagle asks why some places are preserved by the law while others are not, and he finds that environmental laws often have unexpected results while other laws have surprising effects on the environment. Nagle argues that sound environmental policy requires better coordination among the many laws, regulations, and social norms that determine the values and uses of our scarce lands and waters.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Floods
ISBN : UOM:39015067182017
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Flood control
ISBN : UCBK:C063888748
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Flood control
ISBN : MINN:31951D036323158
Author : Gareth Pender,Hazel Faulkner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781444340761
Approaches to avoid loss of life and limit disruption and damage from flooding have changed significantly in recent years. Worldwide, there has been a move from a strategy of flood defence to one of flood risk management. Flood risk management includes flood prevention using hard defences, where appropriate, but also requires that society learns to live with floods and that stakeholders living in flood prone areas develop coping strategies to increase their resilience to flood impacts when these occur. This change in approach represents a paradigm shift which stems from the realisation that continuing to strengthen and extend conventional flood defences is unsustainable economically, environmentally, and in terms of social equity. Flood risk management recognises that a sustainable approach must rest on integrated measures that reduce not only the probability of flooding, but also the consequences. This is essential as increases in the probability of inundation are inevitable in many areas of the world due to climate change, while socio-economic development will lead to spiralling increases in the consequences of flooding unless land use in floodplains is carefully planned. Flood Risk Science and Management provides an extensive and comprehensive synthesis of current research in flood management; providing a multi-disciplinary reference text covering a wide range of flood management topics. Its targeted readership is the international research community (from research students through to senior staff) and flood management professionals, such as engineers, planners, government officials and those with flood management responsibility in the public sector. By using the concept of case study chapters, international coverage is given to the topic, ensuring a world-wide relevance.