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295 inDeX ABF. See Akerselvens Brugseierforening (Manufacturers’ Association of the Akerselva) Achères, water treatment station at, 106–7, 107 agriculture, sewage irrigation systems in, 98–100, 103, 105–7, 112, 166–69, 264n52 Akerselva River, 8, 57–74, 238; development along, 59; economic geography of, 62–66; features of, 57; and industrialization, 57, 60–74; Vaterland Bridge, 66; waterworks on, 58, 60 Akerselvens Brugseierforening (Manufacturers ’ Association of the Akerselva, ABF), 69–73 Alexander, J. E., 170 Algonquin, 147 Amerindians, in Canada, 147, 149, 151, 275n13. See also Native Americans Amos, Arthur, 87 Anker, Peder, 62 aqueducts, 96, 98, 103, 165, 184 Armand, Antoine, 194 Asbjørnsen, Peder, 63 assimilation capacity, 259n17 Atlanta, Georgia, 12, 201, 214–18 Audubon, John J., 136–37 Back River. See Rivière des Prairies; Stratford Back Rivers Back River Company, 78, 259n13 Backus, Andrew, 134 Bagle, Eyvind, 8 Barles, Sabine, 9–10, 238 Bateman, John La Trobe, 164 Bathing Water Directive (EEC, 1976), 176 Bechmann, Georges, 105, 264n52 Beckton Gasworks, 51, 52 Belgrand, Eugène, 98, 99 Bertier (intendant), 193–95, 280n28 Beuvronne River, 187 Bièvre River, 192–98, 200 biodiversity, 160, 165–66, 173–74, 179–80 Blanchard, Raoul, 90, 145–46 Bower, Shannon Stunden, 12–13, 239, 241 bridges, flood damage to, 142–43 Britain: and environmental issues, 176; and North America, in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 151–52, 155 Bromley Gasworks, 52–53 Brussels, Belgium, 7–8, 17–33, 240; environs of, 29–31, 31; industrialization in, 25–29, 32; medieval water system of, 21–25; political structure of, 17, 32; rivers and streams of, 19, 21; urbanization in, 32 Bruyère (engineer), 187 Buccleuch, Duke of, 169 Budd, William, 67 Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de, 196 Bull, Hans, 73 Camu, Pierre, 146 Canal de l’Ourcq, 11–12, 96, 97 canals: Brussels, 27, 29; Canada, 152, 155; Chicago, 203–4, 206; Scotland, 163; West Ham, 38, 43; Yvette River, 185–87, 189–90, 192–97 Note: page numbers in italic type refer to illustrations. 296 index Carlyle, William, 224 Carson, Rachel, 178 Cartier, Jacques, 145, 147 cesspools, 98–99, 167 Chabal, Henri, 103 Chadwick, Edwin, 167, 177 Champlain, Samuel de, 147 Channelsea River, 53, 54 Chattahoochee River, 12, 213–18, 214 Chézy (engineer), 190 Chicago, Illinois, 12, 201, 203–8, 217–18, 240 Child, Joseph, 55 chlorine, 106 cholera, 67, 69, 98, 167, 205 Christian IV, King of Norway, 58 Christiana, Norway, 8, 57–74, 240; Akerselva River’s economic geography, 62–66; industrialization in, 57, 60–74; population of, 58, 61, 66–67; preindustrial , 58; residential development in, 61, 65; waterworks in, 68–71 Cincinnati, Ohio, 135–36, 139, 143–44 Clifford, Jim, 8 coal barges, 46, 46 coal power, 45–46, 161–63 Colten, Craig, 12, 234–35, 238, 239, 241 compensation, for expropriation of property, 193–96 conflicts, 238–40; Akerselva River, 69–73; Lea River, 43–44; Manitoba water management, 229–30; private property vs. ecological commons, 220; river diversion in Paris, 189–98; Rivière des Prairies, 85–91; Senne River, 23–24, 27, 29, 32–33; urbanizing river basins, 201–18 conservation districts, 232–36 constructivism, environmental and natural constraints on, 2, 4 Cook, Edward, 52 Cooley, Lyman, 206 cotton mills, 163 Courville, Serge, 146 Creighton, Donald, 145–46 Cronon, William, 204–5; Nature’s Metropolis, 4 Crouch, Archer Philip, 46 Cutler, Ephraim, 134–35 Dagenais, Michèle, 9 Dagenais, Pierre, 75 dams and reservoirs: Akerselva River, 58, 62, 64, 70–72; Chattahoochee River, 214–15; Lea River, 43; Rivière des Prairies, 79–91; Scotland, 163–65, 164; Seine River, 102, 103, 108–12 Danube River, 10, 113–29; channelization of, 113, 114, 123–26, 129, 241–42, 267n17; features of, 114; floodplains of, 10, 113, 114, 118, 120–23, 125–26, 128–29; important places along, 117; industrialization and, 120–29; role of, in Vienna, 116, 118, 128–29; system of, 115; transportation on, 120–21 De Fer de la Nouerre, Nicolas, 183, 189, 190, 192–98, 280n28, 280n31 De Gaulle, Charles, 157 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 198 Dehérain, Pierre-Paul, 100 Deligne, Chloé, 7–8, 237, 241 Deparcieux, Antonie, 183, 185–88, 190, 199 Dickens, Alfred, 49 disease: Christiana, 67–69; Edinburgh, 166–67. See also cholera; malaria; typhoid fever; typhus diversion of rivers. See river diversions Dominion Land Survey (Canada), 219–20, 225 Donnaconna, 147 drainage projects: in France, 247n13; in West Ham, 40, 41, 42, 252n25 ducks, 175 Durand-Claye...

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