Wetlands Drainage, River Modification and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930
John Thompson provides a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture and the post-1900 intrusion of large volumes of waste water from the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago.Thompson examines the history of the land drainage movement and the inevitable environmental changes caused by the intensification of urban and rural land use in the Midwest between sixty and one hundred years ago. He shows how institutions of land drainage wer…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8093-2398-2
- EAN: 9780809323982
- Produktnummer: 1510245
- Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 562 g
- Auflage: 3 Revised edition
- Abbildungen: 42 illustrations
- Gewicht: 562
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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