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Creating Safety, Courting Disaster on the Lower Shinano River, Japan
Engineering the Lower Shinano River in northeastern Japan expanded the risk of other flood and tsunami damage.
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The Watering of California's Central Valley
The agricultural landscape of California was based on a complex system of aqueducts that created the illusion of “normal” climatic variation.
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Fishing for Souls: Water Technology and the Dutch Baroque
This article examines how issues of representation and aesthetics have impacted the environmental history of early modern Europe.
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The Serre-Ponçon Dam and the Durance River: The Founding Act towards the most Regulated French Waterway
The construction of the Serre-Ponçon dam in 1955 was the first step in the development of dams in the Durance River, the most regulated waterway in France
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Brewing, Industrialization, and London Water Supplies
Making more beer for eighteenth-century London’s growing population increased the need for clean water. Efforts to guarantee supplies to the brewers had an effect on both urban and rural landscapes.
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Nuclear Ghosts and the Atomic Landscape of the American South
“Nuclear Ghosts” explores the history of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s failed nuclear power project in rural Tennessee, the enviro-technological controversy the plant generated, and why nuclear power was seen as a threat not only to lives but also a way of life, one intimately connected to the American South’s culture and environment.
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Expecting Disaster: The 1963 Landslide of the Vajont Dam
On October 9, 1963, a landslide above the Vajont Dam created a wave that destroyed several villages in the valley, killing about 2,000 people. Opinion as to whether to interpret the disaster as natural or one caused by human error remains divided.
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Onions and Tires in Sodom and Gomorrah
Agbogbloshie (Ghana) is an unnerving and fascinating example of human ingenuity, but at the same time an environmental and social tragedy.
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“The battle of geological experts”: Water Flow and Tunneling within a Welsh Mountain
This article discusses controversy over drainage tunnels in a Welsh lead mining region in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Searching for Stability: Energy, Entropy, and the Abandoning of the Panatomic Canal
Scientists work to deploy atomic energy in Panama, but fail to overcome the country’s entropic environment.