Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World s Most Famous Waterfall - Couverture souple

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Macfarlane, Daniel

 
9780774864237: Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World s Most Famous Waterfall
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ISBN 10 : 0774864230 ISBN 13 : 9780774864237
Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2021

Synopsis

Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. Essentially, this natural wonder is now a tap: huge tunnels channel the waters of the Niagara River around the Falls, which ebb and flow according to the tourism calendar.

Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important natural sites in North America. Daniel Macfarlane details how engineers, bureaucrats, and politicians conspired to manipulate the world's most famous waterfall. During the first half of the twentieth century, the United States and Canada explored various ways to maximize hydropower from the Niagara River while "preserving" the falls. Decades of environmental diplomacy and transborder studies led to a 1950 treaty that allowed new hydro-electric stations to funnel most of the river's water to generate power. To facilitate these diversions and lessen the visual impact of redirecting so much water, the two nations cooperated to install a range of control works while reshaping and shrinking the Horseshoe Falls. This book offers a unique perspective on how the Niagara landscape embodies both the power of technology and the power of nature.

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À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Macfarlane is an associate professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. He is also a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Center for Contemporary International History, University of Toronto, and president of the International Water History Association.

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Éditeur
University of British Columbia Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0774864230
ISBN 13 
9780774864237
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
332
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0774864222 ISBN 13 :  9780774864220
Editeur : University of British Columbia P..., 2020
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