Silt Sand and Slurry
Dredging, Sediment, and the Worlds We Are Making
$101.48
- Paperback
385 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2024
Summary
Sediment is an unseen infrastructure that shapes and enables modern life.
Silt is scooped from sea floors to deepen underwater highways for container ships. It is diverted from river basins to control flooding. It is collected, sorted, managed, and moved to reshape deltas, marshes, and beaches. Anthropogenic action now moves more sediment annually than ‘natural’ geologic processes - yet this global reshaping of the earth’s surface is rarely-discussed and poorly-unders…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781954081840 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1954081847 |
| Author: | The Dredge Research Collaborative |
| Publisher: | Oro Editions |
| Imprint: | Oro Editions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 385 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Weight: | 1.44kg |
| Dimensions: | 254mm x 203mm x 37mm |
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About The Author
The Dredge Research Collaborative
Rob Holmes is an associate professor of landscape architecture at Auburn University.
Brett Milligan is an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Davis.
Gena Wirth is design principal at SCAPE Landscape Architecture.
The authors are members of the Dredge Research Collaborative, an independent 501c3 nonprofit organisation which aims to improve sediment management through design research, building public knowledge, and facilitating transdisciplinary conversation. Their work with the DRC has received numerous awards, including two national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and includes design projects on all four coasts of the continental United States.
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