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In Praise of Floods : The Untamed River and the Life It Brings. / James C. Scott,

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi: Raghav Books Private Limited | : 2/25, First Floor Arun House, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, New DelhiPublication details: , London : Yale University Press , 2025.Description: xxi, 220p. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780300278491
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.34 SCO
Summary: Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change and shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood-pulse—the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain—that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood-pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture.
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Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change and shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered.

It is the annual flood-pulse—the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain—that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood-pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture.

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