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Book Mississippi Delta Restoration

Download or read book Mississippi Delta Restoration written by John W. Day and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Lower Mississippi River Delta

Download or read book Lower Mississippi River Delta written by Louisiana Geological Survey and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation

Download or read book The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation written by United States. Mississippi River Commission and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural Human System

Download or read book Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural Human System written by Yi Jun Xu and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands

Download or read book Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands written by Paul F. Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure on large fluvial lowlands has increased tremendously during the past twenty years because of flood control, urbanization, and increased dependence upon floodplains and deltas for food production. This book examines human impacts on lowland rivers, and discusses how these changes affect different types of riverine environments and flood processes. Surveying a global range of large rivers, it provides a primary focus on the lower Rhine River in the Netherlands and the Lower Mississippi River in Louisiana. A particular focus of the book is on geo-engineering, which is described in a straight-forward writing style that is accessible to a broad audience of advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in global environmental change, fluvial geomorphology and sedimentology, and flood and water management.

Book Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration  LACPR  Report

Download or read book Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration LACPR Report written by United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley

Download or read book Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley written by Roger T. Saucier and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salt Marshes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Duncan M. FitzGerald
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-22
  • ISBN : 1107186285
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book Salt Marshes written by Duncan M. FitzGerald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary review of salt marshes, describing how they function and respond to external pressures such as sea-level rise.

Book Study of Materials in Transport

Download or read book Study of Materials in Transport written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. New Orleans District and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawing Louisiana s New Map

    Book Details:
  • Author : National Research Council
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2006-02-23
  • ISBN : 0309164907
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Drawing Louisiana s New Map written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 50 years, coastal Louisiana has suffered catastrophic land loss due to both natural and human causes. This loss has increased storm vulnerability and amplified risks to lives, property, and economies-a fact underscored by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Drawing Louisiana's New Map reviews a restoration plan proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana, finding that, although the individual projects in the study are scientifically sound, there should be more and larger scale projects that provide a comprehensive approach to addressing land loss over such a large area. More importantly, the study should be guided by a detailed map of the expected future landscape of coastal Louisiana that is developed from agreed upon goals for the region and the nation.

Book Proceedings Of The Coastal Sediments 2023  The  In 5 Volumes

Download or read book Proceedings Of The Coastal Sediments 2023 The In 5 Volumes written by Ping Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 2986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Proceedings contains about 270 papers on a wide range of research topics on coastal sediment processes, including nearshore sediment transport and modeling, beach processes, shore protection and coastal managements, and coastal resilience building.The unique book provides a comprehensive documentation of cutting-edge research on coastal sediment process and morphodynamics from eminent researchers worldwide. Readers can learn the most current knowledge on numerous topics concerning coastal sediment processes and shore protection.

Book Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study

Download or read book Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Approaches to Coastal Wetland Restoration

Download or read book Approaches to Coastal Wetland Restoration written by Robert Eugene Turner and published by Kugler Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wetlands Lost. The 1,879 thousand hectares of coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) comprise 58% of the U.S. coastal wetland total (Turner and Gosselink 1975). These wetlands occur in every GOM state, although two-thirds of the GOM total are in Louisiana, and are typically associated with estuaries, bays, rivers, and the lee-side of barrier islands. The objective of this book is to facilitate and encourage the restoration of these and other wetlands by reviewing the details of construction and costs (which can range from $1 to $45,000 per hectare), and by evaluating case studies for levels of success. Each approach is presented in brief chapters outlining the essential points of "what, why, and how" the approach can be planned and implemented. The driving purpose, or goal, of this book is to accelerate regional wetland gains and to promote cost-effective practices in wetland restoration. Why do we think that this book is necessary? The area of wetlands has been diminishing almost everywhere for the last several hundred years, but particularly this century, as the twin juggernauts of population growth and per capita resource exploitation expanded. In 1927, as the Great Depression in the U.S. was about to start, there were 2 billion people on the planet. There were 6 billion people on the Earth in the year 2000 and by 2054 there will be 9 billion. Two hundred years ago there were 89.5 million ha of wetlands in the contiguous 48 U.S. states (Dahl 1990). By 1997 this area had shrunk to 42.7 million ha (Dahl 2001). From the 1970s to the mid-1980s, the annual wetland loss rate was 117,400 ha (Dahl and Johnson 1991). The official national policy of "no net loss" may be why the wetland loss rate slowed to 23.7 thousand ha yr-1 from 1986 to 1997 (Dahl 2001). Although wetland loss rates have also declined in coastal Louisiana in recent years, Louisiana experienced particularly high coastal wetland loss rates of 12.5 thousand ha yr-1 (0.86% yr-1) from 1956 to 1978 (Baumann and Turner 1990). Thus, wetland loss has become a national concern (National Research Council 1991; Dahl 2001, National Research Council 2001) and particularly in the northern Gulf of Mexico. We hope to contribute to the reversal of these wetland losses by presenting wetland restoration and creation approaches appropriate for the Northern Gulf of Mexico, and perhaps elsewhere. (taken from the introduction)

Book The Mississippi River Floods

Download or read book The Mississippi River Floods written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: