Hazardous metropolis : flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles / / Jared Orsi |
Autore | Orsi Jared <1970-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.34/936/0979494 |
Soggetto topico |
Flood control - California - Los Angeles
Flood control - Government policy - California - Los Angeles Urban ecology (Sociology) - California - Los Angeles |
Soggetto non controllato |
american west
california city planning dams debris dams disaster prep earth sciences ecosystem engineering environmental history environmentalism flood control basin flood control flooding geography government policy infrastructure la canada valley los angeles river los angeles natural disaster nature new years eve debris flood nonfiction paved river channels politics san gabriel dam science southern california storms sustainability technology urban ecology urban us west water waterways weir |
ISBN |
1-282-35715-8
9786612357152 0-520-93008-8 1-59734-648-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Water In Los Angeles: A Portrait Of An Urban Ecosystem -- 1. City Of A Thousand Rivers: The Emergence Of An Urban Ecosystem, 1884-1914 -- 2. A Centralized Authority And A Comprehensive Plan: Response To The Floods, 1914-1917 -- 3. A Weir To Do Man's Bidding: The Great San Gabriel Darn Fiasco, 1917-1929 -- 4. A More Effective Scouring Agent: The New Year's Eve Debris Flood And The Collapse Of Local Flood Control, 1930-1934 -- 5 . The Sun Is Shining Over Southern California: The Politics Of Federal Flood Control In Los Angeles, 191 5-1969 -- 6. Necessary But Not Sufficient: Storms, Environmentalism, And New Visions For Flood Control, 1969-2001 -- Epilogue. The Historical Structure Of Disorder: Urban Ecology In Los Angeles And Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782964203321 |
Orsi Jared <1970->
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 | ||
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Hazardous metropolis : flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles / / Jared Orsi |
Autore | Orsi Jared <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) |
Disciplina | 363.34/936/0979494 |
Soggetto topico |
Flood control - California - Los Angeles
Flood control - Government policy - California - Los Angeles Urban ecology (Sociology) - California - Los Angeles |
Soggetto non controllato |
american west
california city planning dams debris dams disaster prep earth sciences ecosystem engineering environmental history environmentalism flood control basin flood control flooding geography government policy infrastructure la canada valley los angeles river los angeles natural disaster nature new years eve debris flood nonfiction paved river channels politics san gabriel dam science southern california storms sustainability technology urban ecology urban us west water waterways weir |
ISBN |
1-282-35715-8
9786612357152 0-520-93008-8 1-59734-648-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue. Water In Los Angeles: A Portrait Of An Urban Ecosystem -- 1. City Of A Thousand Rivers: The Emergence Of An Urban Ecosystem, 1884-1914 -- 2. A Centralized Authority And A Comprehensive Plan: Response To The Floods, 1914-1917 -- 3. A Weir To Do Man's Bidding: The Great San Gabriel Darn Fiasco, 1917-1929 -- 4. A More Effective Scouring Agent: The New Year's Eve Debris Flood And The Collapse Of Local Flood Control, 1930-1934 -- 5 . The Sun Is Shining Over Southern California: The Politics Of Federal Flood Control In Los Angeles, 191 5-1969 -- 6. Necessary But Not Sufficient: Storms, Environmentalism, And New Visions For Flood Control, 1969-2001 -- Epilogue. The Historical Structure Of Disorder: Urban Ecology In Los Angeles And Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826983103321 |
Orsi Jared <1970->
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2004 | ||
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Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck |
Autore | Meybeck Michel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of California Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 551.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Rivers - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency
anthropocene blue nile basin case study chicago river city state drainage ecological ecology ecosystem engineering ethics ethnography flooding great flood immigration landscape natural history natural world nile river public ecology rivers riverscape scholars seine river society water system waterways western europe world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96793-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910245737803321 |
Meybeck Michel | ||
University of California Press | ||
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Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck |
Autore | Meybeck Michel |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of California Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 551.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Rivers - Environmental aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
agency
anthropocene blue nile basin case study chicago river city state drainage ecological ecology ecosystem engineering ethics ethnography flooding great flood immigration landscape natural history natural world nile river public ecology rivers riverscape scholars seine river society water system waterways western europe world history |
ISBN | 0-520-96793-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996333145503316 |
Meybeck Michel
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University of California Press | ||
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