Synopses & Reviews
This is the first book to deal comprehensively with recent revolutions in river channel management. It explores the multidisciplinary nature of such management in relation to modern management techniques that bear the background of the entire drainage basin in mind, use channel restoration where appropriate, and are designed to be sustainable.
About the Author
R. Keith Schoppa is Professor and Doehler Chair in Asian History at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of several books including Chinese Elites and Political Change: Zhejiang Province in the Early Twentieth Century (Harvard, 1982), Xiang Lake--Nine Centuries of Chinese Life (Yale, 1989),
Blood Road: The Mystery of Shen Dingyi in Revolutionary China (California, 1995), and The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History (Columbia, 2000).