By Erika Marie Bsumek
ISBN-10: 0199755353
ISBN-13: 9780199755356
Infrequently an afternoon passes with out reporters, policymakers, teachers, or scientists calling cognizance to the global scale of the environmental quandary confronting humankind. whereas weather swap has generated the best alarm in recent times, different worldwide problems-desertification, poisonous toxins, species extinctions, drought, and deforestation, to call only a few-loom shut at the back of. The scope of the main urgent environmental difficulties some distance exceeds the potential of person geographical regions, less smaller political entities. To compound those difficulties, fiscal globalization, the expansion of non-governmental activist teams, and the accelerating circulation of knowledge have essentially reworked the geopolitical panorama. regardless of the recent urgency of those demanding situations, although, they aren't with out ancient precedent. As this booklet indicates, geographical regions have lengthy sought agreements to control migratory natural world, simply as they've got negotiated conventions governing the exploitation of rivers and different our bodies of water. equally, realms have lengthy tried to regulate assets past their borders, to impose their criteria of right environmental exploitation on others, and to attract on services constructed somewhere else to deal with environmental difficulties at domestic. This assortment examines this little-understood historical past, supplying case stories and context to notify ongoing debates.
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The river’s most celebrated fish—the salmon—was a victim of gravel removal (which eliminated its spawning grounds) and dams (which stopped it from reaching the Alpine feeder streams). The river’s oldest known continuous inhabitant—the Rhine mussel—was a victim of cement-lined river banks, which compromised its living space while providing an avenue for its competitor, the zebra mussel, to move in. Other native species faced similar challenges. ”9 The Missing Middle Ground River engineering in the early nineteenth century was still more of an art than a science, and some catastrophic failures in previous decades had turned many Europeans into skeptics.
Nobiling was more of a nationalist, but he had still bounced from the Elbe to the Mosel to the Saar, and then to the Ruhr before becoming Prussia’s principal Rhine engineer. Other engineers followed similar trajectories and championed similar projects. One of the reasons modern rivers tend to look alike is that they have all been sculpted by engineers who came out of the same schools and used the same techniques, regardless of their nationality or the geographic location of the river. The Rhine Commission served as the main political forum for all river projects, and the lead agency for creating unified navigational practices.
4 Although the Rhine states were the only political entities in the new Rhine regime in a position to “think globally and act locally,” in practice they thought locally only when it suited their budgets and political needs. The state of Hesse, for instance, failed for several decades to dredge a deep channel through the Rheingau (a river widening near the town of Bingen) because it lacked the necessary funds to complete the project properly, not because this type of project endangered the “Romantic Rhine,” the stretch of the river from Bingen to Mainz.