Battling the inland sea : floods, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley

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Battling the inland sea : floods, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley

by Robert Kelley ; foreword by David N. Kennedy

University of California Press, c1989

  • : pbk

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Maps on lining papers

Bibliography: p. 373-387

Includes index

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ISBN 9780520064874

内容説明

In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley flooded annually and an inland sea formed during the rainy season, draining slowly away by the summer months. The effort to control the flooding and exploit the rich valley for agriculture has resulted in an intricate, thousand-mile system of levees and drains. Robert Kelley documents and analyzes the process and the widely-diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood -- a process equally relevant to riverine areas across the country, many of which experienced serious flooding in 1997. A new foreword by David N. Kennedy discusses the Sacramento Valley floods of 1997."A valuable study, rich in scholarly detail and documentation... of America's use -- and abuse -- of natural resources in the western United States". -- Thomas Jablonsky, Southern California Quarterly
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: pbk ISBN 9780520214286

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In its natural condition the Sacramento Valley was a flood-ravaged region where an inland sea a hundred miles long regularly formed during the rainy season, to drain slowly away by the summer months. Today the Valley is marvelously productive, with a great capital city at its center, but only after a seventy-year struggle to devise and build an intricate thousand miles of levees and drains. Robert Kelley sets that battle within the encompassing national political culture, which produced, through the Republican and Democratic parties, widely diverging ideas about how best to reclaim the Valley from flood. He draws on approaches developed in the field of policy analysis to examine the relationship between American political culture and environmental policy-making. We find that the prolonged controversy over the Sacramento Valley illuminates American decision-making, then and now.

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Foreword Preface 1 The Sacramento Valley: Eden Invaded 2 The Interplay of American Political Culture and Reclamation Policy: The 1850s 3 The Failed Dream: The Swampland Commissioners Experiment, 1861-1868 4 Crisis on the Yuba and the Feather: The 1860s 5 The Struggle Begins: Sutter County in Siege, 1866-1875 6 Colusa. the Sacramento River. and the Argument over What to Do: 1850s-1870s 7 The Levee-Building Spiral Begins: 1867-1880 8 The Parks Dam War:The North and the South in Arms Again, 1871-1876 9 California Mobilizes for a New Assault on the Inland Sea: 1878-1880 10 The Great Drainage Act Fight and the Reversion to Flood Control Anarchy: 1880-1886 11 Reentry: 1886-1902 12 A Policy Context Transformed: The Progressive Era and the Revival of Planning, 1902-6 13 The New American State Drains the Inland Sea: The Sacramento Flood Control Project Becomes Reality, 1907-1920 14 A Valley Transformed:1905-1986 15 Reflections: The Sacramento Valley as a Case Study in American Political Culture and the Policy Process Notes Bibliography Index

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