Quagmire - Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta

Informationen zum Autor David Biggs is an associate professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, specializing in Southeast Asia, Vietnam, environmental history, and historical geography. His first book, Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta (University of Washington Press, 2011), won the George Perkins Marsh Award in 2012 for the best book in environmental history. Klappentext By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms, Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscapechannelized rivers, a complex canal system, hydropower development, deforestationhave interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Quagmire delves beyond common stereotypes to present an intricate, rich history that shows how closely political and ecological issues are intertwined in the human interactions with the water environment in the Mekong Delta. Zusammenfassung By exploring the delta as a quagmire in both natural and political terms! Biggs shows how engineered transformations of the Mekong Delta landscape-channelized rivers! a complex canal system! hydropower development! deforestation-have interacted with equally complex transformations in the geopolitics of the region. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Nation-Making in the Mekong Mire by William Cronon Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Water's Edge 2. Water Grid 3. Hydroagricultural Crisis 4. Balkanization 5. Modernization 6. American War Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: david Biggs, David Andrew Biggs, David/ Cronon Biggs
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780295991993
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99199-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Quagmire; Weyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksQuagmire
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)