Industrialized Nature: Brute Force Technology and the Transformation of the Natural World
For nearly a century, we have relied increasingly on science and technology to harness natural forces, but at what environmental and social cost?
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Melinda Laituri on "Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds"
Melinda Laituri, Carson fellow from February to May 2011, talks about her research project, “Integrated Environmental History of Watersheds,” a comparative, historical-geographical analysis of the Danube and the Colorado rivers.
Expecting Disaster: The 1963 Landslide of the Vajont Dam
Arcadia, 2011, no. 8
Transforming Rivers into Streets: How the Nineteenth Century Scheme to Improve Shipping on the Vitava, Elbe and Danube Failed
"Saving Wild Rice: The Rise and Fall of the Nett Lake Dam"
This paper examines the interrelations of technology, environment and people by exploring the origin, design and implementation of a dam-building project intended to control water-level fluctuations and enhance the Nett Lake wild rice ecosystem at Bois Forte Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota.
From Grains to Riches: How Hydropower Production on the Möll River in the Austrian Alps Went from Local to Supra-Regional
Three Gorges Dam
In 1992, China approves the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It would be completed in 2008.
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Construction of the Kainji Dam and Lake
This dam project alters the Niger delta’s previously dynamic and self-regulating ecosystem.
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Completion of the Aswan Dam
The completion of the original Aswan Dam fundamentally changes Egypt’s irrigation system.
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