Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II: Hydrology and climatology
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II: Geology
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Pa Mong, Phase II: Land resources
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Pa Mong Stage One
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1466
Book Description
Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1386
Book Description
Pa Mong Stage One: Land resources
Author: United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mekong River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Concrete Revolution
Author: Christopher Sneddon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department’s push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union’s increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world’s underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country’s global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies—from the Bureau’s early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia—Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022628445X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins and ramifications. In Concrete Revolution, Christopher Sneddon offers a corrective: a compelling historical account of the US Bureau of Reclamation’s contributions to dam technology, Cold War politics, and the social and environmental adversity perpetuated by the US government in its pursuit of economic growth and geopolitical power. Founded in 1902, the Bureau became enmeshed in the US State Department’s push for geopolitical power following World War II, a response to the Soviet Union’s increasing global sway. By offering technical and water resource management advice to the world’s underdeveloped regions, the Bureau found that it could not only provide them with economic assistance and the United States with investment opportunities, but also forge alliances and shore up a country’s global standing in the face of burgeoning communist influence. Drawing on a number of international case studies—from the Bureau’s early forays into overseas development and the launch of its Foreign Activities Office in 1950 to the Blue Nile investigation in Ethiopia—Concrete Revolution offers insights into this historic damming boom, with vital implications for the present. If, Sneddon argues, we can understand dams as both technical and political objects rather than instruments of impartial science, we can better participate in current debates about large dams and river basin planning.