A History of Dams
Author | : Norman Alfred Fisher Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Dams |
ISBN | : 9780432150900 |
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Author | : Norman Alfred Fisher Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Dams |
ISBN | : 9780432150900 |
Author | : Norman Smith |
Publisher | : Carol Publishing Corporation |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David P. Billington |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160728235 |
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Author | : Norman Alfred Fisher Smith |
Publisher | : Lyle Stuart |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 1976-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780806505411 |
Author | : A. E. Rogge |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2016-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0816535981 |
This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. The book focuses primarily on the 1903-1911 Roosevelt Dam camps and the 1926-1927 Camp Pleasant at Waddell Dam, although other camps dating from the 1890s through the 1940s are discussed as well. The book is liberally illustrated with historic photographs of the camps and the people who occupied them while building the dams.
Author | : Sanjeev Khagram |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501727397 |
Big dams built for irrigation, power, water supply, and other purposes were among the most potent symbols of economic development for much of the twentieth century. Of late they have become a lightning rod for challenges to this vision of development as something planned by elites with scant regard for environmental and social consequences—especially for the populations that are displaced as their homelands are flooded. In this book, Sanjeev Khagram traces changes in our ideas of what constitutes appropriate development through the shifting transnational dynamics of big dam construction. Khagram tells the story of a growing, but contentious, world society that features novel and increasingly efficacious norms of appropriate behavior in such areas as human rights and environmental protection. The transnational coalitions and networks led by nongovernmental groups that espouse such norms may seem weak in comparison with states, corporations, and such international agencies as the World Bank. Yet they became progressively more effective at altering the policies and practices of these historically more powerful actors and organizations from the 1970s on. Khagram develops these claims in a detailed ethnographic account of the transnational struggles around the Narmada River Valley Dam Projects in central India, a huge complex of thirty large and more than three thousand small dams. He offers further substantiation through a comparative historical analysis of the political economy of big dam projects in India, Brazil, South Africa, and China as well as by examining the changing behavior of international agencies and global companies. The author concludes with a discussion of the World Commission on Dams, an innovative attempt in the late 1990s to generate new norms among conflicting stakeholders.
Author | : N. Schnitter |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Barrages |
ISBN | : 9789054101499 |
Author | : David P. Billington |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2017-04-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0806157895 |
The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate. Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major water-storage structures were erected in four western river basins. David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson reveal how engineering science, regional and national politics, perceived public needs, and a river’s natural features intertwined to create distinctive dams within each region. In particular, the authors describe how two federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, became key players in the creation of these important public works. By illuminating the mathematical analysis that supported large-scale dam construction, the authors also describe how and why engineers in the 1930s most often opted for massive gravity dams, whose design required enormous quantities of concrete or earth-rock fill for stability. Richly illustrated, Big Dams of the New Deal Era offers a compelling account of how major dams in the New Deal era restructured the landscape—both politically and physically—and why American society in the 1930s embraced them wholeheartedly.
Author | : U.s. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781493649044 |
The history of federal involvement in dam construction goes back at least to the 1820s, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built wing dams to improve navigation on the Ohio River. The work expanded after the Civil War, when Congress authorized the Corps to build storage dams on the upper Mississippi River and regulatory dams to aid navigation on the Ohio River. In 1902, when Congress established the Bureau of Reclamation (then called the “Reclamation Service”), the role of the federal government increased dramatically. Subsequently, large Bureau of Reclamation dams dotted the Western landscape. Together, Reclamation and the Corps have built the vast majority of major federal dams in the United States. These dams serve a wide variety of purposes. Historically, Bureau of Reclamation dams primarily served water storage and delivery requirements, while U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dams supported navigation and flood control. For both agencies, hydropower production had become an important secondary function. This history explores the story of federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction by carefully selecting those dams and river systems that seem particularly critical to the story. Written by three distinguished historians, the history will interest engineers, historians, cultural resource planners, water resource planners and others interested in the challenges facing dam builders. At the same time, the history also addresses some of the negative environmental consequences of dam-building, a series of problems that today both Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seek to resolve.
Author | : Japan Commission on Large Dams - JCOLD |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0203091868 |
Overview of Japan’s long water history, by the Japanese Commission on large dams. Starting from the 7th century, when irrigation ponds were first constructed for paddy cropping, until the beginning of the 21st century. Elaborates on various roles of dams: water supply, power generation and flood control. Moreover, tries to clarify the negative impacts of dams on the natural environment and local societies, as well as extensive efforts made to minimize these impacts. Includes appendices with location and characteristics of main dams, administrative organs, river management system and water resources development river systems and facilities to offer the full picture. Richly-illustrated. Intended for dam and water resources professionals.