Roundtable Review of Quagmire by David Biggs
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
In this book, David Biggs explores the actual uses of land and water in Vietnam through its troubled history.
The arrival in 2010 of a major international public art exhibition in the heart of the Emscher valley marked a new chapter in the regeneration of an area, where infrastructure, environmental, and art history continue to become entangled in new and fascinating ways.
The aim of the present study is to investigate changes in the channel morphology and land use of the lower part of the Dyje River floodplain as a result of river engineering works.
Numerous cartographic and written historical sources tell the story of the measures Vienna’s dynamic Danube riverscape underwent in an extensive effort to secure navigation between the main river arm and the city within the last 500 years.
The river Zolotitsa is located in what is now Arkhangelsk province and flows into the White Sea. The 1980 discovery and subsequent open-pit mining of a large diamond deposit severely transformed the landscape and is threatening to destroy the ecosystem of the upper Zolotitsa region.
Emily O’Gorman examines the ways in which ducks as well as people negotiated the changing water landscapes of the Murrumbidgee River caused by the creation of rice paddies.
This book presents one of the first comparative histories of rivers on the continents of Europe and North America in the modern age. The contributors examine the impact of rivers on humans and, conversely, the impact of humans on rivers.
The construction of a bridge over the Isar River was a crucial factor in the foundation of the city of Munich in 1158.
One of the world’s largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.