2020, ISBN: 9780807173190

An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), <p>In <i>The Place with No Edge</i>, Adam Mandelman follows th… Mehr…

An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), <p>In <i>The Place with No Edge</i>, Adam Mandelman follows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. He finds that people?s use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with?rather than independence from?the environment.<br><br> Created over millennia by deposits of silt and sand, the Mississippi River delta is one of the most dynamic landscapes in North America. From the eighteenth-century establishment of the first French fort below New Orleans to the creation of Louisiana?s Coastal Master Plan in the 2000s, people have attempted to harness and master this landscape through technology. Mandelman examines six specific interventions employed in the delta over time: levees, rice flumes, pullboats, geophysical surveys, dredgers, and petroleum cracking. He demonstrates that even as people seemed to gain control over the environment, they grew more deeply intertwined with?and vulnerable to?it. <br><br> The greatest folly, Mandelman argues, is to believe that technology affords mastery. Environmental catastrophes of coastal land loss and petrochemical pollution may appear to be disconnected, but both emerged from the same fantasy of harnessing nature to technology. Similarly, the levee system?s failures and the subsequent deluge after Hurricane Katrina owe as much to centuries of human entanglement with the delta as to global warming?s rising seas and strengthening storms.<br><i><br> The Place with No Edge </i>advocates for a deeper understanding of humans? relationship with nature. It provides compelling evidence that altering the environment?whether to make it habitable, profitable, or navigable ?inevitably brings a response, sometimes with unanticipated consequences. Mandelman encourages a mindfulness of the ways that our inventions engage with nature and a willingness to intervene in responsible, respectful ways.</p> [PU: LSU Press], Seiten: 294, LSU Press, 2020<

2020, ISBN: 9780807173190

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2020, ISBN: 9780807173190

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2020, ISBN: 9780807173190

LSU Press, Kindle Edition, 406 Seiten, Publiziert: 2020-04-08T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, United States, Americas, History, Subjects, Books, Higher Education, Edu… Mehr…

LSU Press, Kindle Edition, 406 Seiten, Publiziert: 2020-04-08T00:00:00.000Z, Produktgruppe: Digital Ebook Purchas, United States, Americas, History, Subjects, Books, Higher Education, Education, Earth Sciences, Science, Nature & Maths, Geography, Environmental, Civil Engineering, Engineering & Technology, Drilling, Petroleum, Mining & Geological, Human Geography, Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences, Kindle eBooks, Categories, Kindle Store, Politics & Social Sciences, Technology & Engineering, Professional & Technical, English Language Store, fd9aabf3-bc3b-41dc-8755-20b8be10c196_8101, fd9aabf3-bc3b-41dc-8755-20b8be10c196_0, Special Features Stores, Arborist Merchandising Root, Format: Kindle eBook, LSU Press, 2020<

2020, ISBN: 9780807173190

An Intimate History of People, Technology, and the Mississippi River Delta, eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: LSU Press], LSU Press, 2020