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Informationen zum Autor Trevor Turpin is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Bath, and has worked in water and environmental management since the early 1970s. He is the co-author of Environmental Impact Assessment Handbook (2002). Zusammenfassung As well as much-needed electricity! dams generate extremes of emotion. This book traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution onwards. It offers an account of their design! construction and function! which may appeal to general readers and those interested in environmental policy! history and civil engineering.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Turpin, Turpin Trevor
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2007
• EAN: 9781861893284
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-328-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Objekt; Objekt (Reaktion Books); Objekt
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Hydraulics, Hydraulic Engineering, Dams & reservoirs