Article ID: CBB439269579

Transforming the character of the upper Mississippi River (2021)

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Despite the long-understood variability in the Mississippi River, the upper portions of the river have historically received less attention than the lower reach and this culminated in the lower river dominating twentieth century river management efforts. Since the seventeenth century, there have been multiple tendencies in how the upper river was characterized, including relatively spare notes about basic conditions such as channel width and flow rates which shifted to an emphasis on romantic descriptions of the riparian scenery by the midnineteenth century. Finally, by the late nineteenth century the upper river was routinely portrayed as a flawed entity requiring human intervention to fix it. While the tone and specific language changed over time, there remained a consistent emphasis that whatever was being reported about the river was scientifically accurate.

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Authors & Contributors
Diego Angelucci
La Vigna, Francesco
Veronica Ghizzi
Bonan, Giacomo
Raito, Leonardo
Rinaldo Rinaldi
Concepts
Water resource management
Environmental history
Rivers
Water
Earth sciences
Floods
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Early modern
18th century
Places
Italy
Rome (Italy)
Adige River (Italy)
Po River
Polesine
West Africa
Institutions
Kingdom of Italy (1861-1946)
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