Remedial Action Plan for the Rouge River Basin
Author : Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Water
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Author : Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
Publisher :
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Water
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Author : John H. Hartig
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0472220721
The Rouge River is a mostly urbanized watershed of about 500 square miles populated by nearly 1.4 million people. While not geographically large, the river has played an outsized role in the history of southeast Michigan, most famously housing Ford Motor Company’s massive Rouge Factory, designed by architect Albert Kahn and later memorialized in Diego Rivera’s renowned “Detroit Industry” murals. In recent decades, the story of the Rouge River has also been one of grassroots environmental activism. After pollution from the Ford complex and neighboring factories literally caused the river to catch on fire in 1969, community groups launched a Herculean effort to restore and protect the watershed. Today the Rouge stands as one of the most successful examples of urban river revival in the country. Rouge River Revived describes the river’s history from pre-European times into the 21st century. Chapters cover topics such as Native American life on the Rouge; indigenous flora and fauna over time; the river’s role in the founding of local cities; its key involvement in Detroit’s urban development and intensive industrialization; and the dramatic clean-up arising from citizen concern and activism. This book is not only a history of the environment of the Rouge River, but also of the complex and evolving relationship between humans and natural spaces.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,92 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Rouge River (Mich.)
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Ecology
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Author : Robert L. France
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2002-05-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1420032429
Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions, challenging readers into abandoning the comfortable safety of conducting business-as-usual within narrow disciplinary confines, and instead directing views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. With contributions from renowned practitioners, Part I provides seventeen chapters addressing the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and Part II presents another seventeen chapters focusing on issues relating to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. In addition, Professor France has provided a "Response" to accompany each chapter, which succinctly underscores the salient features in more detail and emphasizes cross-linking to other chapters in the book. The "Overview" provides a brief road-map to navigate through the section. Finally, the discussion summaries at the end of each section elaborate on past problems, current challenges, and future directions. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design puts forward the very best of modern water sensitive planning and design and should be required reading for everyone involved in this dynamic and crucial field.
Author : Velma I. Grover
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1578087694
This edited volume while focusing on participatory governance in the Great Lakes basin of North America also gives a comparative perspective of the African Great Lakes. The book describes the actions taken at degraded locations along the Great Lakes in North America through Remedial Action Plans (RAP) and other mechanisms, with an aim to highlight the successes and failures encountered in ecosystembased regenerative approaches. The book documents these experiences including the lead taken by industry in improving environmental quality of the Great Lakes. The book concludes with lessons learnt about revitalizing the ecosystem integrity of the lakes, which can be replicated in other watersheds of the world.
Author : Martin M. Kaufman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2011-04-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1439852820
With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between humans and the environment. Environmental contamination is a chronic problem-and an expensive one. In urban areas, water and soil contamination poses a threat to public healt
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Water quality
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Author : John H. Hartig
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
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A close look at the history of Detroit's distinguished waterway that also documents the Detroit River's ecosystem problems and explains how it can be further protected and remain one of the world's great rivers.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 24,14 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Combined sewer overflows
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