Article ID: CBB001422577

Expanding Sanitary Infrastructure and the Shaping of River History: River Vantaa (Finland) 1876--1982 (2015)

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This article investigates the environmental history of the River Vantaa, southern Finland, and its interaction with the spatial development of water-related infrastructures in an urbanising environment. The article argues that the overlapping use of the river as part of both waste water and drinking water infrastructures has shaped its ecological characteristics and consequently influenced communities' possibilities for using it. As a response to hydrological alterations, human activity focused on increasingly manipulating the river water and its flow. The study describes a gradual spatial expansion of the hydrological territory of the Finnish capital and a process of increasingly heavy engineered alterations in order to meet the water-related needs of communities in the region. This happened within the watershed and beyond, both above and under the surface. The study covers the time period from 1876 to 1982.

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Authors & Contributors
Andrea Bonoldi
Bonan, Giacomo
Raito, Leonardo
Kristan Cockerill
Franco Pozzati
Vincenzo De Meo
Concepts
Water resource management
Rivers
Environmental history
Floods
Hydrogeology
Po Plain
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Medieval
21st century
Places
Italy
Adige River (Italy)
Austria
Po River
Polesine
Los Angeles (California)
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
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