TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Scott, James C.
AU  - James C Scott
TI  - In Praise of Floods: : The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
SN  - 9780300278491
U1  - 363.34 SCO 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - , London
PB  - : Yale University Press
KW  - Flood
KW  - Life of Brings
KW  - River
N2  - 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
ER  -