Gilbert F. White is the preeminent geographer of natural resources, hazards, and the human environment. During fifty years of professional work as civil servant, scientist, and educator, he authored numerous books and papers. This volume is the first collection of White's work, spanning his interests and career from 1934 to 1984. Individual introductions by the editors place each selection in historical perspective and assay its significance. With the companion volume, Theme from the Work of Gilbert F. White, White's writings, and the work that he inspired, are now readily accessible to all who share his concern for the stewardship of the earth.
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Robert W. Kates is professor of geography at Clark University. Ian Burton is professor of geography and former director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. Kates and Burton, who have published widely, are the coeditors of Readings in Resource Management and Conservation, published by the University of Chicago Press.
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This major excerpt from Gilbert F. White's first published paper is a straightforward report on a national survey of the effect of the 1934 drought on public water supplies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
floodplain occupance, urban occupance, federal flood control policy, reducing flood losses, floodplain use, agricultural occupance, integrated river basin development, annual flood losses, land occupance, managing flood losses, industrial water use, floodplain dwellers, flood loss reduction, comprehensive regional development, perception matrix, flood abatement, unified national program, flood proofing, domestic water use, social guides, human occupance, last settler, drought hazard, global environmental monitoring system, flood problem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Nations, University of Chicago, New York, Corps of Engineers, National Academy of Sciences, Department of Geography Research Paper, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Mekong, Tennessee Valley Authority, United Kingdom, Government Printing Office, Hoover Dam, Association of American Geographers, East Africa, North America, Soil Conservation Service, Great Plains, Johns Hopkins Press, Mississippi River, World Health Organization, Census of Manufactures, Disaster Study, New Mexico, Paley Commission New!
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This major excerpt from Gilbert F. White's first published paper is a straightforward report on a national survey of the effect of the 1934 drought on public water supplies. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
floodplain occupance, urban occupance, federal flood control policy, reducing flood losses, floodplain use, agricultural occupance, integrated river basin development, annual flood losses, land occupance, managing flood losses, industrial water use, floodplain dwellers, flood loss reduction, comprehensive regional development, perception matrix, flood abatement, unified national program, flood proofing, domestic water use, social guides, human occupance, last settler, drought hazard, global environmental monitoring system, flood problem Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Nations, University of Chicago, New York, Corps of Engineers, National Academy of Sciences, Department of Geography Research Paper, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Mekong, Tennessee Valley Authority, United Kingdom, Government Printing Office, Hoover Dam, Association of American Geographers, East Africa, North America, Soil Conservation Service, Great Plains, Johns Hopkins Press, Mississippi River, World Health Organization, Census of Manufactures, Disaster Study, New Mexico, Paley Commission New!
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- Man, Mind and Land by Walter Firey on page 171, page 175, and Back Matter
- Water Supply: 4th quarter 1980 (Business Monitors) by Great Britain on page 101, page 121, and page 124
- A Perspective of Environmental Pollution by M. W. Holdgate on page 439, and Back Matter
- Technology in American Water Development by Edward A. Ackerman on page 120, and page 165
- Human Rights (Issues) by John Bradley on page 357, and page 376
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