... development. It also introduces nationally-known figures like Egbert Viele who engineered systems of drainage, sewerage, and parks. Landfilling erased the largest wetland complex in Manhattan, including Harlem Creek and Harlem Marsh, and slum clearance for public housing transformed the neighborhood a second...

...This chapter examines the malaria control swamp drainage projects in the Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley in Palestine, and their connection to the Zionist nationalist movement. It suggests that the cases of the Jezreel Valley and the Huleh Valley show that sanitary/health concerns and political...

... drainage as adaptation to excess water, which occurs in many areas of the eastern United States. We take a historical perspective in examining the economic factors behind the emergence of drainage and then discuss its potential role in climate adaptation. Although shifting growing regions and increased...

...This chapter examines the connection between swamp drainage projects in Palestine aimed at malaria control and the politics of settlement, projects which, it explains, not only forged tangible connections between disease, land transformation, and Zionist redemption, but were also semantically bound...

...This chapter, which sums up the key findings of this study of the connection between the malaria control project in Palestine during British rule and the Zionist nationalist movement, suggests that the symbols of malaria and swamp drainage are charged in contemporary Israel and are frequent topics...

... and swamp reclamation, especially Otto Kochtitzky’s Little River Drainage District, transformed the earthquake territory of the Missouri Bootheel. As planter Thad Snow observed, cotton agriculture, the boll weevil, and share-cropping brought racial conflict, even as Great Depression protests by the Southern...

... frequent and more intense droughts along with periods of concentrated precipitation. Warmer temperatures will reduce snow pack as water storage in the US West, necessitating more reliance upon surface reservoirs, groundwater, and transmission. In the US East irrigation, drainage, and the movement of water...