Wet Prairie - People, Land, and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

Informationen zum Autor Shannon Stunden Bower Klappentext The Canadian prairies are often envisioned as dry, windswept fields; however, much of southern Manitoba is not arid plain but wet prairie, poorly drained land subject to frequent flooding. Shannon Stunden Bower brings to light the complexities of surface water management in Manitoba, from early artificial drainage efforts to late-twentieth-century attempts at watershed management. She engages scholarship on the state, liberalism, and bioregionalism in order to probe the connections between human and environmental change in the wet prairie. This account of an overlooked aspect of the region's environmental history reveals how the biophysical nature of southern Manitoba has been an important factor in the formation of Manitoba society and the provincial state. Zusammenfassung This in-depth exploration of surface water management in southern Manitoba reveals how coping with environmental realities has altered both residents’ relations with each other and their ideas about the role of the state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Wetland Elegy? / Graeme WynnIntroduction: The Wet Prairie1 Drains and Cultural Communities: The Early Years of Manitoba Drainage, 1870-19152 Jurisdictional Quagmires: Dominion Authority and Prairie Wetlands, 1870-19303 Drains and Geographical Communities: Experts, Highlanders, and Lowlanders Assess Drainage4 International Bioregions and Local Momentum: The International Joint Commission, Ducks Unlimited, and Continued Drainage5 Permanence, Maintenance, and Change: Watershed Management in ManitobaConclusion: Chequer Board Squares in a Dynamic LandscapeAppendicesNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Shannon Stunden Bower, Shannon Stunder Bower, Shannonn Stunden Bower, Shannon Stunden Bower
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9780774818537
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1853-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Nature | History | Society; Nature - History - Society; Nature / History / Society Series; Nature | History | Society; Nature - History - Society; Nature History Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration