Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained write by Martin Knoll. This book was released on 2017-06-13. Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many cities across the globe are rediscovering their rivers. After decades or even centuries of environmental decline and cultural neglect, waterfronts have been vamped up and become focal points of urban life again; hidden and covered streams have been daylighted while restoration projects have returned urban rivers in many places to a supposedly more natural state. This volume traces the complex and winding history of how cities have appropriated, lost, and regained their rivers. But rather than telling a linear story of progress, the chapters of this book highlight the ambivalence of these developments. The four sections in Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained discuss how cities have gained control and exerted power over rivers and waterways far upstream and downstream; how rivers and floodplains in cityscapes have been transformed by urbanization and industrialization; how urban rivers have been represented in cultural manifestations, such as novels and songs; and how more recent strategies work to redefine and recreate the place of the river within the urban setting. At the nexus between environmental, urban, and water histories, Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained points out how the urban-river relationship can serve as a prime vantage point to analyze fundamental issues of modern environmental attitudes and practices.
Environment and Infrastructure
Environment and Infrastructure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Environment and Infrastructure write by Giacomo Bonan. This book was released on 2023-04-26. Environment and Infrastructure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources. These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.
Saving Nature Under Socialism
Saving Nature Under Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Saving Nature Under Socialism write by Julia E. Ault. This book was released on 2021-09-09. Saving Nature Under Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When East Germany collapsed in 1989–1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The communist dictatorship, however, had sought to confront environmental issues since at least the 1960s. Through an analysis of official and oppositional sources, Saving Nature Under Socialism complicates attitudes toward the environment in East Germany by tracing both domestic and transnational engagement with nature and pollution. The communist dictatorship limited opportunities for protest, so officials and activists looked abroad to countries such as Poland and West Germany for inspiration and support. Julia Ault outlines the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and shows how East Germans responded to local degradation as well as to an international moment of environmental reckoning in the 1970s and 1980s. The example of East Germany thus challenges and broadens our understanding of the 'greening' of post-war Europe, and illuminates a larger, central European understanding of connection across the Iron Curtain.
Meandering Valleys and Underfit Rivers
Meandering Valleys and Underfit Rivers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meandering Valleys and Underfit Rivers write by William Morris Davis. This book was released on 1914. Meandering Valleys and Underfit Rivers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain write by Jon Agar. This book was released on 2018-04-09. Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.
