James C. Scott presents In Praise of Floods

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1985/Title: In Praise of Floods Series: Yale Agrarian Studies Series Author: James C. Scott Narrator: William Hope Format: mp3 Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins Release date: 06-12-25 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating Genres: Science Publisher's Summary: Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they 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.