{"product_id":"in-praise-of-floods-the-untamed-river-and-the-life-it-brings-0300278497","title":"In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life It Brings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0300278497\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e James C. Scott\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change and shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea; they move both gradually and violently; they can teem (usually) with life; they may die a quasi-natural death; they are frequently maimed and even murdered. It is the annual flood-pulse--the brief time when the river occupies the floodplain--that gives a river its vitality, but it is human engineering that kills it, suppressing the flood-pulse with dams, irrigation, siltation, dikes and levees. In demonstrating these threats to the riverine world, award-winning author James C. Scott examines the life history of a particular river, the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) of Burma, the heartland and superhighway of Burman culture. Scott opens our understanding of rivers to encompass their entirety--tributaries, wetlands, floodplains, backwaters, eddies, periodic marshlands, and the assemblage of life forms dependent on rivers for their existence and well-being. For anyone interested in the Anthropocene and the Great Acceleration, rivers offer a striking example of the consequences of human intervention in trying to control and domesticate a natural process, the complexity and variability of which we barely understand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":51499454071072,"sku":"NEW0300278497","price":12.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Used - Good","offer_id":51499454103840,"sku":"USED0300278497","price":10.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/content_a36a9c53-d8a4-4c5c-b5ff-1041ac2c96d2.jpg?v=1776704110","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/in-praise-of-floods-the-untamed-river-and-the-life-it-brings-0300278497","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}