A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers - Rilegato

Wohl, Ellen

 
9780226904788: A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers
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ISBN 10: 0226904784 ISBN 13: 9780226904788
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2010

Sinossi

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you cant step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agreenatural and synthetic change are so rapid on the worlds great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes.

A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Murray-Darling in Australia and the Yellow River in China to Central Europes Danube and the United States Mississippi, the book journeys down the most important rivers in all corners of the globe. Wohl shows us how pollution, such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia, has affected biodiversity in the water. But rivers are also resilient, and Wohl stresses the importance of conservation and restoration to help reverse the effects of human carelessness and hubris.

What all these diverse rivers share is a critical role in shaping surrounding landscapes and biological communities, and Wohls book ultimately makes a strong case for the need to steward positive change in the worlds great rivers.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Ellen Wohl is professor of geosciences at Colorado State University and the author of, most recently, Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West.

Ellen Wohl is professor of geosciences at Colorado State University and the author of, most recently,Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West.

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Editore
Univ of Chicago Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226904784
ISBN 13 
9780226904788
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
359
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
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9780226007601: A World of Rivers: Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  022600760X ISBN 13:  9780226007601
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2012
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