Munich and Its Isar River: A Rafting Port on an Alpine River
Arcadia, 2013, no. 18
rivers
Montreal and Its Waters: An Entangled History
This article highlights how Montreal’s relationship to its water sources has always been experienced and mediated through two intersecting processes: the actual state and presence of water in the landscape, and current representations of water and the ways in which water manifests itself in everyday life.
Learning to Drive the Yukon River: Western Cartography and Athapaskan Story Maps
This paper introduces the current conversations about the environment taking place between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada
Cosmopolitan Trout: The 1883 Fisheries Exhibition and the Global Expansion of Fish Culture
Losing the Unruly Stream: Kondopoga and the Kivach Waterfall
Arcadia, 2013, no. 11
Rivers in History: Perspectives on Waterways in Europe and North America
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 Flow of Empire: Comparing Water Control in the United States and China
About this issue
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Donald Worster—one of the founders and leading figures in the field of environmental history—examines how China and the United States have attempted to control water.
Content
The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History
A biography of the Chicago River.
"The Impact of River Engineering Works on the Dyje River Floodplain in the Czech Republic"
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.
Regulation of the lower Aller river
Short lived industries caused long term changes to the river Aller.
Regions: