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  • - Wresting New Orleans from Nature
    by Craig E. Colten
    £31.49

    Strategically situated at the gateway to the Mississippi River yet standing atop a former swamp, New Orleans was from the first "impossible but inevitable city." How New Orleans came to be, taking shape between the mutual and often contradictory forces of nature and urban development, is the subject of An Unnatural Metropolis.

  • - Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana
    by Craig E. Colten
    £27.49

    The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, delays, and social conflict. Craig Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive structures designed to fend off tropical storms and examines how human actions and inactions left the system incomplete on the eve of its greatest challenge.

  • - Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
    by Craig E. Colten
    £16.99

    This book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.

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