1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990010028110403321

Autore

Fondi, Mario <1923-2012>

Titolo

Villa di Baggio (Pistoia) [Risorsa grafica] / Mario Fondi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

S. l. : s. n., 1951

Descrizione fisica

1 fotografia : b/n ; 147 x 103 mm

Locazione

ILFGE

Collocazione

Scat. Fondi 04 Busta 12(065)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Grafica

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788077003321

Autore

Carse Ashley <1977->

Titolo

Beyond the big ditch : politics, ecology, and infrastructure at the Panama Canal / / Ashley Carse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32047-9

0-262-32046-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Collana

Infrastructures series

Disciplina

972.87/505

Soggetti

Panama Canal (Panama) Design and construction

Panama Canal (Panama) Social conditions

Panama Canal (Panama) Environmental aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The machete and the freighter -- Monte -- Making the Panama Canal Watershed -- Frank Robinson's map -- Life along the river (Miocene-



1903) -- Hydropolitics, territory, and canal construction -- Pueblos perdidos or how the lake ate the river -- Banana republic? The agricultural possibilities of the Canal Zone -- Getting across and getting around -- The highway : the world united, Panama divided -- Conquest of the jungle : the moral economy of rural infrastructure -- Weeds -- A demanding environment.

Sommario/riassunto

This title traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, it explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities.