Fixing Niagara Falls : environment, energy, and engineers at the world's most famous waterfall

Fixing Niagara Falls environment, energy, and engineers at the world's most famous waterfall

Harnessing Niagara: Developments up to the Twentieth Century -- Saving Niagara: Innovation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century -- Negotiating Niagara: Environmental Diplomacy and the 1950 Treaty -- Empowering Niagara: Diversions and Generating Stations -- Disguising Niagara: The Horseshoe Fall...

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1. Verfasser: Macfarlane, Daniel (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wynn, Graeme (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Vancouver, Toronto UBC Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Nature, history, society
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Water-power > Ecology > History > Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > Environmental conditions > North America ; Niagara Falls > Niagarafälle > Tourismus > Wasserkraftwerk > Umweltpolitik > Geschichte
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Zusammenfassung:Harnessing Niagara: Developments up to the Twentieth Century -- Saving Niagara: Innovation and Change in the Early Twentieth Century -- Negotiating Niagara: Environmental Diplomacy and the 1950 Treaty -- Empowering Niagara: Diversions and Generating Stations -- Disguising Niagara: The Horseshoe Falls Waterscape -- Preserving Niagara: The American Falls Campaign.
"Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. "Fixing Niagara Falls" reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane shows how this natural wonder is essentially a tap: huge tunnels around the reconfigured falls channel the waters of the Niagara River, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary and transborder perspective on how the Niagara landscape embodies the power of technology and nature."--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index
Beschreibung:xxxii, 295 Seiten
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24 cm
ISBN:9780774864220
978-0-7748-6422-0
0774864222
0-7748-6422-2
9780774864237
978-0-7748-6423-7