"Book Reviews"
Reviews of histories of: the forest landscape of Molise in Italy; Scottish woodland; the Columbia River, and of the Thames Embankment in Victorian London.
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"Kafka in the Forest: A Personal Note on Monga Forest and Contemporary History in New South Wales"
After some years of absence, I found myself again active in the Australian conservation movement. A forest was to be razed, not far from where this is being written, for a relatively small yield of saw-planks…
"Meteorological Service in Fifteenth Century Sandwich"
Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…
"Man Against the Sea: Natural and Anthropogenic Factors in the Changing Morphology of Harngzhou Bay, circa 1000–1800"
Inner Harngzhou Bay, on the east coast of China at approximately 30 degrees N, is an unstable macrotidal estuarine system whose geographical configuration has altered dramatically over the last thousand years…
From Grains to Riches: How Hydropower Production on the Möll River in the Austrian Alps Went from Local to Supra-Regional
Flooding of the Rhine and Elbe Rivers and North German and Dutch Coasts
Broadsheet: “The Great and Terrible Flood,” January 1651
Potrayal of the devastation caused by a massive flood along stretches of the Danube, Neckar, Main, and Rhein in January 1651.
Taming the Danube: Floodplain Regulation in the Machland
Arcadia, 2011, no. 2
Three Gorges Dam
In 1992, China approves the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It would be completed in 2008.
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