Name: Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World (en Inglés)
Price: 23.74 EUR
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Author: Hawley, Steven ; Duncan, David James
ISBN: 9781938340772

portada Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Steven Hawley

Prefacio de

David James Duncan

Editorial

Patagonia

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781938340772

Categorías

Ríos y lagos
Política y protocolos medioambientales
Conservación del medioambiente
Historia de la tierra

Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World (en Inglés)

Steven Hawley (Autor) · David James Duncan (Prefacio de) · Patagonia · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World (en Inglés)"

The ugly truth about dams is about to be revealed. During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the whole messy truth about the legacy of last century's big dam building binge has come to light. What started out as an arguably good government project has drifted oceans away from that original virtuous intent. Governments plugged the nation's rivers in a misguided attempt to turn them into revenue streams. Water control projects' main legacy will be one of needless ecological destruction, fostering a host of unnecessary injustices. The estimated 800,000 dams in the world can't be blamed for destroying the earth's entire biological inheritance, but they play an outsized role in that destruction. Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Crazy World is a kind of speed date with the history of water control -- its dams, diversions and canals, and just as importantly, the politics and power that evolved with them. Examples from the American West reveal that the costs of building and maintaining a sprawling water storage and delivery complex in an arid world--growing increasingly arid under the ravages of climate chaos--is well beyond the benefits furnished. Success stories from Patagonia and the Blue Heart of Europe point to a possible future where rivers run free and the earth restores itself.