Wooster Meander

Making Room for Rivers
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8469-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

Draws on the author's own experiences as a watershed planner, teacher, and activist to tell the story of the Great Lakes region's experiment in restoring a complicated natural system of flowing water.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wooster, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Words for Flowing Water

1. Words for Flowing Water

2. A New Phrase

3. Finding an Oxbow

Part II: Unraveling

4. Nuisance

5. When Streams Unravel: A Tale of Buffalo Creek

6. How a Good Stream Goes Bad

Part III: Meander (and Other Parts of Stream Anatomy)

7. Meander and Physical Integrity

8. Life below the Flow

9. Whatever Happened to Groundwater?

10. Hill Made of Water

Part IV: Value Change for Survival

11. Terra Nullius

12. Delta

13. Making Room for Rivers

Notes
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Margaret Wooster has worked as a watershed planner for local governments and environmental groups in Western New York, was a founding member of Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper, and has taught Environmental Planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of Living Waters: Reading the Rivers of the Lower Great Lakes, also published by SUNY Press. She lives in Buffalo, New York.