A Life for Water
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A Life for Water

A Memoir, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 108, Part 4)

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Life for Water

A Memoir, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 108, Part 4)

About this book

Luna Leopold (1915-2006) is widely viewed as the foremost student of rivers of the 20th century. This volume presents a selection of informal essays written over the course of his long career. These essays complement his professional articles and books, and they illustrate how he became increasingly concerned with environmental degradation. Leopold argued forcefully that engineering solutions should be ethically framed as well as practical, and with that in mind, in 1969 he drafted the first environmental impact statement. He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1991 Illus.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. The Career of Luna Leopold
  3. Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Precious Water
  6. Benefits and Costs
  7. 2 Learning to Observe
  8. The Skill of Estimating
  9. Need for Trust
  10. Opportunity
  11. Interruption by War
  12. 3 Research on a Practical Problem
  13. Meteorology as a Profession
  14. Observing Natural History
  15. Kauai
  16. Local Fishing
  17. Agriculture
  18. Grabs, Fish, and Research
  19. Views from the Coastal Cliffs
  20. A Chance Observation That Changed the Direction of My Research
  21. Ranching on the Big Island
  22. Water Supplies
  23. The Rainfall of East Maui and Research in Climatology
  24. 4 Travels Toward Science
  25. Terraces of the Powder and the Bighorn Range
  26. The New Fork and the Green River
  27. A Plan for Research
  28. Hydraulic Geometry
  29. Flood-Control Problems
  30. India: Water Development Viewed from the Inside
  31. An Engineering Office
  32. Poona Experiment Station
  33. Looking for Data
  34. Problems of Development
  35. Plans Put on Hold
  36. Nails in the Ground and Tragedy
  37. Pursuit of Our Aims
  38. 5 Science as a Graft
  39. Framing the Questions
  40. A Plan for the Work
  41. The Gates of Lodore
  42. Cataract Canyon of the Colorado
  43. Russia
  44. Ancient Sources and Developments
  45. 6 Some Water Studies
  46. The Concept of Base Leve
  47. The Loop of the San Juan
  48. Mesa Verde
  49. The Negev, Israel
  50. Effect on Geologic Thought
  51. River Meanders
  52. The Grand Canyon
  53. The Arctic Plain and Kotzebue
  54. The Mackenzie and Inuvik
  55. Two Wild Rivers
  56. Comparison of Two Wild Rivers
  57. 7 Environmental Impact
  58. The Florida Jetport and the First Environmental Impact Statement
  59. The Oil Pipeline in Alaska
  60. 8 Environmental Ethics
  61. Values in Conservation
  62. A Reverence for Rivers
  63. Let Rivers Teach Us
  64. Ethos and the Earth's Resources
  65. Government and the Loss of Equity
  66. The Hydrologic Continuum
  67. Bibliography
  68. Index