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Wresting New Orleans from Nature
Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first what geographer Peirce...
Centuries of Change
Twelve essays written by university-affiliated geographers, historians, anthropologists, and ecologists explore the local transformations of physical ...
The Environmental Legacy of Oil in Louisiana
From the hill country in the north to the marshy lowlands in the south, Louisiana and its citizens have long enjoyed the hard-earned fruits of the oil...
Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
The toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and led to the pas...
The Limits to Abundance
Water has dominated images of the South throughout history, from Hernando de Soto's 1541 crossing of the Mississippi to tragic scenes of flooding thro...
A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis
State of Disaster: A Historical Geography of Louisiana’s Land Loss Crisis explores Louisiana’s protracted efforts to restore and protect its coast...
Scale and Scope of an Urban Environmental Problem
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A User's Guide with Documentation
Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, ...
New Orleans Before and After Katrina
"One year before Hurricane Katrina flooded his childhood home, photographer John Woodin returned to the city that shaped his life. Led by intuition an...
A Selection Based Upon the Acquisitions of the Institute of Transportation Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Southern Industrialization from the 1940s to The 1970s
Though it had helped define the New South era, the first wave of regional industrialization had clearly lost momentum even before the Great Depression...