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Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930
John Thompson
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Description for Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930
Hardcover. This is a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture. Num Pages: 352 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; RGBF; RNC; RNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 562.
John Thompson provides a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture and the post-1900 intrusion of large volumes of waste water from the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago. Thompson examines the history of the land drainage movement and the inevitable environmental changes caused by the intensification of urban and rural land use in the Midwest between sixty and one hundred years ago. He shows how institutions of land drainage ... Read more
John Thompson provides a historical account of the development process, sectoral conflicts, and outcomes related to major alterations of land and water relationships, as well as habit changes, caused in the valley downstream from Peoria by the large-scale reclamations for agriculture and the post-1900 intrusion of large volumes of waste water from the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago. Thompson examines the history of the land drainage movement and the inevitable environmental changes caused by the intensification of urban and rural land use in the Midwest between sixty and one hundred years ago. He shows how institutions of land drainage ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809323982
SKU
V9780809323982
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About John Thompson
John Thompson is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the coauthor of The Tule Breakers: The Story of the California Dredge (with E. A. Dutra) and the author of Flood Chronologies and Aftermaths Affecting the Lower Sacramento River, 1878-1909.
Reviews for Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930
Wetlands Drainage, River Modification, and Sectoral Conflict in the Lower Illinois Valley, 1890-1930 is the only detailed account of the demise of natural wetlands along the Illinois River and the development of levee systems and their effect on wetlands. It is one of the most superior scholarly works I have reviewed.-Robert Mohlenbrock