Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shelley Smith Mastran
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9781568983752
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes the impact of design and heritage tourism on rural community development. Since the late 1990s, the National Endowment for the Arts, under the direction of Mark Robbins, has been promoting design excellence through an ambitious series of symposia, best-case design studies, and prototype projects. The results of these programs are now documented in a new series of publications, each focusing on design in the public realm and the potential for innovative architecture, landscape architecture, and planning.
Author: John W. Day
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-16
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9401787336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Human impacts and emerging mega-trends such as climate change and energy scarcity will impact natural resource management in this century. This is especially true for deltas because of their ecological and economic importance and their sensitivity to climate change. The Mississippi delta is one of the largest in the world and has been strongly impacted by human activities. Currently there is an ambitious plan for restoration of the delta. This book, by a renown group of delta experts, provides an overview of the challenges facing the delta and charts - a way forward to sustainable management.
Author: John W. Day
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-23
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 3319656635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a new and provocative treatment dealing with and defining sustainable pathways for the restoration of the Mississippi Delta. Based on a consideration of natural functioning of the Mississippi delta, factors that led to its severe deterioration, and major global trajectories of the 21st century, the authors investigate possible future pathways for sustainable management of the delta. They consider current conditions as well as future trajectories of climate and energy and resource scarcity. The book concludes that without profound changes of how humans live in and manage the delta, sustainability of the delta will be profoundly compromised.
Author: Yi Jun Xu
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 3038972568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System" that was published in Water
Author: J. W. Day
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-04-12
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 303094526X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For nearly a century, the energy industry had a profound impact on the Mississippi Delta, including both the natural and socio-economic systems. The purpose of this book is to describe the delta, how oil and gas (O&G) activities have impacted both natural and socio-economic systems and how much of the degradation could have been avoided. The Mississippi Delta formed over the past six thousand years but, in less than a century, lost 25 percent of coastal wetlands. O&G activities contributed significantly to this loss. O&G production began in the early 20th century and over 600 conventional fields were developed. Production ramped up rapidly, peaking around 1970, then declined. As O&G production declines, produced water dominates fluid production, and this high salinity brine is laced with a variety of toxins. Often, O&G was produced rapidly and much was left in the ground and is now technically and economically unavailable. With careful planning, this situation could have been avoided. The industry also affected the regulatory framework by weakening regulations, enforcement and impacts were not adequately addressed, and more profits flowed out of state. Thus, the state was economically and environmentally worse off. The industry should be compelled to contribute expertise and financial resources to restoration of the delta.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Fraiser, Jim
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781455608249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book presents the manner in which builders adapted to the whimsy of a river and the tides of technological, social, and political change while preserving the beauty and grandeur for which the South is known.