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Author: Nanny Kim
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789004415096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNanny Kim analyses two transports systems into the Southwest of Qing China, focussing on shipping on the Upper Changjiang and road transport into central Yunnan, examining concrete technologies, economics, and the transporters in local societies and environments.
Author: Nanny Kim
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 647
ISBN-13: 900441617X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe commercialized economy of late imperial China depended on efficient transport, yet transport technologies, transport economics as well as its role in local societies and in interdependencies of environments and human activities are acutely under-researched. Nanny Kim analyses two transports systems into the Southwest of Qing China through the long eighteenth century and up to the mid-nineteenth century civil wars. The case studies explore shipping on the Upper Changjiang in Sichuan and through the Three Gorges into Hubei, and road transport out of the Sichuan Basin across northeastern Yunnan and northwestern Guizhou into central Yunnan. Specific and concrete investigations of a river that presented extreme dangers to navigation and carriage across the crunch zone of the Himalayan Plateau provides a basis for a systematic reconstruction of transport outside the lowland centres and their convenient networks of water transport.
Author: Gareth J. Hearn
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781862393318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a complete guide to the study, design, construction and management of landslide and slope engineering measures for mountain roads, with emphasis on low-cost. The geographical focus is on the tropics and sub-tropics, but is also highly relevant to other regions where heavy rain, steep slopes and weak soils and rocks combine to create slope instability. The causes and mechanisms of landslides are described, and the hazards they pose to mountain roads are illustrated. Methods of desk study, field mapping and ground investigation are reviewed and illustrated, with emphasis on geomorphological and engineering geological techniques. The design and construction of alignments, earthworks, drainage, retaining structures, the stabilization of soil slopes and rock slopes, and the control of erosion on slopes and in streams covered. Slope management as part of road maintenance and operation is reviewed, and procedures for risk assessment and works prioritization are described.
Author: Ellen Wohl
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 723
ISBN-13: 1118671686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series, Volume 19. What are the forms and processes characteristic of mountain rivers and how do we know them? Mountain Rivers Revisited, an expanded and updated version of the earlier volume Mountain Rivers, answers these questions and more. Here is the only comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about mountain rivers available. While continuing to focus on physical process and form in mountain rivers, the text also addresses the influences of tectonics, climate, and land use on rivers, as well as water chemistry, hyporheic exchange, and riparian and aquatic ecology. With its numerous illustrations and references, hydrologists, geomorphologists, civil and environmental engineers, ecologists, resource planners, and their students will find this book an essential resource. Ellen Wohl received her Ph.D. in geology in 1988 from the University of Arizona. Since then, she has worked primarily on mountain and bedrock rivers in diverse environments.
Author: Ellen E. Wohl
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780300084849
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book fills an important gap with a clear and comprehensive explanation of how rivers are changed by human activity. The book also includes a generous selection of striking historical and contemporary photographs, maps, and diagrams that provide a fresh perspective on the extent to which the rivers of the Colorado Front Range have undergone change during the last two centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Ellen E. Wohl
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 324
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 554
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 618
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Laurel Archer
Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Published: 2010-09-22
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1926855043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume of the guidebook series Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips describes in detail 7 spectacular northern BC paddling routes over 11 phenomenal rivers, and is designed to provide canoeists with all the information they require to plan a river trip appropriate to their skill level and special interests. Each route includes: a summary of the main attractions; where to start and finish along the river; trip length in days and kilometres; required maps; suggestions about when to go; and star ratings for difficulty and for historical and recreational value. Northern British Columbia Canoe Trips: Volume Two covers numerous routes--some never documented in any publication before--including the Spatsizi, Upper and Lower Stikine, Tatshenshini/Alsek, Turnagain, Kechika, Toad, Liard, Tuchodi and Muskwa rivers. The book provides paddlers of all types with a variety of river trips to choose from based on comprehensive and comparative information as well as detailed and specific navigational notes to aid them along their chosen route.
Author: M. S. Kohli
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9788173871351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Book Explores The Tourism Aspects Of The `Mountains Of India` In General And Provides Useable Information On Their Geography, Pilgrimage Centres, Hill Stations And Adventure Options Available To An Individual.
