Fixing Niagara Falls: Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World s Most Famous Waterfall (Nature - History - Society) - Softcover

Macfarlane, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774864230 ISBN 13: 9780774864237

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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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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. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774864230
• ISBN 13: 9780774864237
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 295
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