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Adaptation and Resilience
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 99.95In America?s arid southwest, climate change will occur in the context of already-keen competition for water for agriculture, urban growth, electricity generation, water-based recreation, and environmental protections. This book explores the challenges that climate change and variability pose for water and energy managers and users, communities, and... more...
America's Fight over Water
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 44.95This book inquires into the relations between society and its natural environment by examining the historical discourse around several cases of state building in the American West: the construction of three high dams from 1928 to 1963. more...
Ancient Water Technologies
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99There is no more fundamental resource than water. The basis of all life, water is fast becoming a key issue in today's world, as well as a source of conflict. This fascinating book, which sets out many of the ingenious methods by which ancient societies gathered, transported and stored water, is a timely publication as overextraction and profligacy... more...
Aquatic Habitats in Sustainable Urban Water Management
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 100.00Aquatic habitats supply a wide range of vital ecosystem benefits to cities and their inhabitants. The unsustainable use of aquatic habitats, including inadequate urban water management itself, however, tends to alter and reduce their biodiversity and therewith diminish their ability to provide clean water, protect us from waterborne diseases and pollutants,... more...
Austria
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 61.00Environmental Management Air and Water Management Nature and Biodiversity Economy, Society and Environment Sectoral Integration: Sustainable Forest Management International Co-operation This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress... more...
Belgium
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2007; US$ 63.00BELGIUM. Topics covered: Environment Management: Air and Water Management.; Nature and Biodiversity Management.; Environment-Economy Interface.; Environmental-Social Interface.; Environment-Health Interface.; International Co-operation. This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental... more...
The Big Thirst
Free Press 2011; US$ 16.00The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex . Rather than only three states of water?liquid, ice, and vapor?there is a fourth, ?molecular water,? fused into rock 400 miles deep in the Earth, and that?s where most of the planet?s water is found. Unlike most precious... more...
Blue Gold
McClelland & Stewart 2010; US$ 24.99In this international bestseller, currently available in more than a dozen countries, Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke describe the real and worsening global water crisis, and reveal the plans of transnational corporations to profit from it. The authors present both a compelling case and a practical plan for fighting back against the corporate takeover... more...
Blue Revolution
Beacon Press 2011; US$ 26.95Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what?s now our largest crop?the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity.... more...
Canada
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 61.00Topics Covered Environmental Management Air and Water Management Nature and Biodiversity Management Economy, Society and Environment Sectoral Integration: Chemicals International Co-operation This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each... more...









