River Returns
An Environmental History of the Bow
Published on 14. October 2009
978-0-7735-8144-9 (ISBN)
Description
Alberta's iconic river has been dammed and plumbed, made to spin hydro-electric turbines, and used to cleanse Calgary. Artificial lakes in the mountains rearrange its flow; downstream weirs and ditches divert it to irrigate the parched prairie. Far from being wild, the Bow is now very much a human product: its fish are as manufactured as its altered flow, changed water quality, and newly stabilized and forested banks. The River Returns brings the story of the Bow River's transformation full circle through an exploration of the recent revolution in environmental thinking and regulation that has led to new limits on what might be done with and to the river.
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Language
English
File size
8,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-8144-9 (9780773581449)
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Christopher Armstrong | Matthew Evenden | H.V. Nelles
The River Returns
An Environmental History of the Bow
Book
10/2009
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.50
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Person
H.V. Nelles, author of A Little History of Canada and The Art of Nation Building among other works, is most recently co-author, with Christopher Armstrong, of The Painted Valley.
