FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W9412429> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W9412429 startingPage "1" @default.
• W9412429 abstract "Review: Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of the West By James Lawrence Powell Reviewed by David Jenkins Roundhouse Institute for Field Studies, USA Powell, James Lawrence. Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of the West. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008. 283 pp. ISBN 9780520254770. US$27.50, cloth. Acid-free paper. The history of Lake Powell is a history of failure, near failure, and, at best, limited and short-term success. The near failure, with which James Powell begins his book, was the potential collapse of Glen Canyon Dam in 1983. An overfull reservoir required the use of two spillway tunnels carved through the sandstone adjacent to the dam. The massive release of water caused the spillways to begin to fail, potentially eroding the soft sandstone and undermining the integrity of the dam. If the dam failed, the result would be a cascading disaster, as dams below Lake Powell collapsed in turn under the onslaught of a massive flood. Runoff, however, slowed to manageable levels at the end of the summer. This averted catastrophe serves as a potent point of departure for James Powell's description of the many failures which led to the construction of Glen Canyon Dam. These include Congress's failure to heed the advice of John Wesley Powell in the late nineteenth century concerning the West's limited capacity for irrigation; the early twentieth-century failure to enforce the provisions of the 1902 Newlands Act, which provided funds for irrigation works to be repaid by farmers who bought irrigable public lands; the governmental failure to estimate with precision the costs and benefits of huge water projects; the failure to accurately measure Colorado River flows, in order to make useful predictions about future water apportionment; the famous inability of squabbling states to rationally divvy-up Colorado River water, resulting in protracted litigation that continues to this day; the failure of nascent environmental groups at mid-century to foresee the ecological effects of filling Glen Canyon; the ridiculous, internecine skirmishes between the National Park Service and the Bureau of Reclamation about potential dam sites; and the overarching failure of local, state and federal governments to understand that population growth in the West must be limited, or, to put it differently, that such growth must be commensurate with the limitations imposed by the environment. The list could go on. Fortunately, James Powell writes with such clarity, verve and attention to detail that even the arcane infighting of bureaucrats becomes interesting, in large measure because Powell keeps the reality of the Colorado River system at the forefront of his narrative. Fortunately, too, Dead Pool is not simply about Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. It is also about how nature and culture have become intertwined in ways that make them difficult to tease apart, with the Colorado River system as a striking example, and global warming as a looming threat. …" @default.
• W9412429 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W9412429 creator A5091162225 @default.
• W9412429 date "2009-01-01" @default.
• W9412429 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W9412429 title "Review: Dead Pool: Lake Powell, Global Warming, and the Future of the West" @default.
• W9412429 hasPublicationYear "2009" @default.
• W9412429 type Work @default.
• W9412429 sameAs 9412429 @default.
• W9412429 citedByCount "0" @default.
• W9412429 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W9412429 hasAuthorship W9412429A5091162225 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C111368507 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C114793014 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C115343472 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C127313418 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C132651083 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C74256435 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C84859931 @default.
• W9412429 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C111368507 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C114793014 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C115343472 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C127313418 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C132651083 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C166957645 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C74256435 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C84859931 @default.
• W9412429 hasConceptScore W9412429C95457728 @default.
• W9412429 hasIssue "28" @default.
• W9412429 hasLocation W94124291 @default.
• W9412429 hasOpenAccess W9412429 @default.
• W9412429 hasPrimaryLocation W94124291 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W1549376279 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W1994204638 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2018806396 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2067673015 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2209048553 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2313095487 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2330062304 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2338774164 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2574344347 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W30480787 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W3164414368 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W3174270329 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W3192598420 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W3194362491 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W613974027 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W624615286 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W625983717 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2165567663 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2612055905 @default.
• W9412429 hasRelatedWork W2992095817 @default.
• W9412429 hasVolume "1" @default.
• W9412429 isParatext "false" @default.
• W9412429 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W9412429 magId "9412429" @default.
• W9412429 workType "article" @default.