{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Messing with the Mississippi: Lessons Learned from the Great River","description":"Monika and Jessica speak with Boyce Upholt, a writer and "nature critic," about his first book, The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi. They discuss the long history of American efforts to control and corral the Mississippi River, the engineering feats that have gone into that project, and some of the consequences of those actions.  Links discussed in the show include: Boyce Upholt The Great River a book by Boyce Upholt - Bookshop.org US Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane - Book Review by Bookishelf Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk\u2019s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (1944) \u2014 The Public Domain Review America's Achilles' Heel: the Mississippi River's Old River Control Structure | Weather Underground Natural Solutions for Mississippi River Flooding Flood: How climate change is making extreme rain more frequent and dangerous.   ","author_name":"Adapt: Climate Change and the Built Environment","author_url":"https:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/473751","html":"