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  • Wings Over Water

    The Vital Magic of North America’s Prairie Wetlands

    A beautiful, photo-rich companion book to the internationally distributed IMAX film of the same name, Wings Over Water celebrates the prairie wetlands of North America and the birds that live and breed in this critical habitat.Covering 300,000 square miles stretching from Canada through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa, the prairie wetlands are one of Earth’s most important ... Leer más

    $11,417 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Impact of Dam on Fish in the Rivers of Nepal

    This study was conducted by the Asian Development Bank to assess the impact of projects involving the construction of dams on aquatic biodiversity in Nepal. The findings may not be authoritative, but conclusions suggest that fish populations and the diversity of species are a ected due to alterations in the ecosystem and blockage in life cycle movements. ... Leer más

    $5,777 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Instream Flow Protection

    Seeking A Balance In Western Water Use

    Instream Flow Protection is a comprehensive overview of Western water use and the issues that surround it. The authors explain instream flow and its historical, political, and legal context; describe current instream flow laws and policies; and present methods of protecting instream flow. They provide numerous examples to illustrate their discussions, with case studies of major river systems ... Leer más

    $36,269 CLP

  • The Thames and Severn Canal

    The canal was completed in 1789 at a cost of GBP250,000. With the Stroudwater Navigation, which had been completed in 1779, it completed a link between the River Severn and the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal in the west and the River Thames in the east. Both the Stroudwater Navigation and Thames and Severn Canal are 'broad canals'. This means that boats with a 14 foot beam could use them. The ... Leer más

    $11,619 CLP

  • Key Concepts in Water Resource Management

    A Review and Critical Evaluation

    Edición de Jonathan Lautze ...
    Series series Earthscan Water Text
    The vocabulary and discourse of water resource management have expanded vastly in recent years to include an array of new concepts and terminology, such as water security, water productivity, virtual water and water governance. While the new conceptual lenses may generate insights that improve responses to the world’s water challenges, their practical use is often encumbered by ambiguity and ... Leer más

    $70,726 CLP

  • History of the Connecticut River, A

    de Wick Griswold ...
    Paddle from Enfield Rapids to Long Island Sound and travel down one of America's most famous waterways, the Connecticut River. Its calm waters conceal an unruly past, where native tribes lost ground to Dutch and English colonists who vied for the river's immense economic power. The skyline of Hartford looms on the western shore, with the gold dome of the capitol as a remnant of this robust economy ... Leer más

    $12,145 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Down the Wild Cape Fear

    A River Journey through the Heart of North Carolina

    de Philip Gerard ...
    In Down the Wild Cape Fear, novelist and nonfiction writer Philip Gerard invites readers onto the fabled waters of the Cape Fear River and guides them on the 200-mile voyage from the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers at Mermaid Point all the way to the Cape of Fear on Bald Head Island. Accompanying the author by canoe and powerboat are a cadre of people passionate about the river, among them a ... Leer más

    $20,354 CLP

  • Wyrley & Essington Canal Through Time

    de Ray Shill ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Wyrley & Essington Canal began as an independent waterway, carrying coal from Essington and Wyrley Bank to Wolverhampton. It was a popular route, in high competition with the mines at Bilston, Cosely and Tipton, which were served by Birmingham Canal Navigations. In 1792 and 1794 the canal was extended, creating routes to a number of new areas - five locks were used for a branch canal to ... Leer más

    $11,619 CLP

  • Every Day the River Changes

    Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

    de Jordan Salama ...
    A "richly observed" travelogue for a new generation about a journey along Colombia’s Magdalena River, exploring life by the banks of a majestic river now at risk, and how a country recovers from conflict (The New York Times Book Review)An American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent, Jordan Salama tells the story of the Río Magdalena, nearly one thousand miles long, the heart of ... Leer más

    $13,197 CLP

  • Fly-Fishing with Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci was obsessed with water. The famed Italian Renaissance artist meticulously drew every aspect of rivers, from the nature of water drops to the ways currents create and destroy the earth’s surface. His obsession led him to become a professional hydraulic engineer and an expert on the physics of water. He disproved Aristotle’s 1,800-year-old theory of the water cycle and developed ... Leer más

    $16,969 CLP

  • The Volta River Basin

    Water for Food, Economic Growth and Environment

    Series series Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World
    The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the ... Leer más

    $67,511 CLP

  • Taming the Flood

    Rivers, Wetlands and the Centuries-Old Battle Against Flooding

    ‘Exquisitely written’ Sunday TimesBeautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future generations.In recent years the Somerset Levels suffered from the worst flooding in over twenty years ... Leer más

    $11,936 CLP

  • The Works of Samuel Scoville

    Samuel Scoville was an American lawyer, naturalist, and author. 'The Works of Samuel Scoville' is a collection of four books:Everyday AdventuresBrave Deeds Of Union SoldiersWild FolkThe Inca Emerald ... Leer más

    $1,072 CLP

  • River

    A Hudson Memoir

    de Leslie Day ...
    Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin—a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her heartfelt memoir, River, Day reveals how she fell in love with—and married—her neighbor, a biology professor at Brooklyn College, became a naturalist, educator, and author, and raised her son on the boat. ... Leer más

    $12,208 CLP

  • A mortificação do riacho Bacuri em Imperatriz - MA

    Este leitura objetiva realizar um estudo da legislação no município de Imperatriz, acerca da Lei de Zoneamento e Parcelamento de Uso e Ocupação do Solo (Lei Complementar Municipal n°03/2004) e, cumulativamente, de aspectos pontuais do Plano Diretor (Lei Complementar Municipal n°02/2004) municipal, incumbindo a estes dois instrumentos legislativos ajustar os efeitos da atuação humana sobre o meio, ... Leer más

    $14,875 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • River Severn

    From Source to Sea

    Series series River
    From a water-laden bog in the Cambrian Mountains of Wales to the mighty Bristol Channel, the River Severn carves its way through some of the most picturesque and varied landscapes in the country. River Severn: From Source to Sea follows the entire course of the river, describing its relationship with the surrounding countryside and how it has shaped local inhabitants’ lives for centuries. A ... Leer más

    $13,361 CLP

  • The Last White Ruby

    de Ronnie Smith ...
    A poetry collection inspired by Ronnie Smith's experiences living and working in the polar regions as an aviator and commander for the US Air Force resupplying US scientific research stations. Anything but routine, Smith brings the surreal landscapes and flying phenomena to the reader through his keen sensitivity to the human condition, ever ready to adapt to an environment fraught with danger, ... Leer más

    $3,205 CLP

  • Just One Rain Away

    The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control

    Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and out-of-synch flood events occur, wary cities like Winnipeg continue to depend on systems and specifications that will soon be out of date. Rivers have impulses that defy many of the basic human assumptions underpinning ... Leer más

    $29,601 CLP

  • Rivers

    A natural and not-so-natural history

    Series series British Wildlife Collection
    Throughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance – yet as we see with increasing frequency they have the potential to wreak great destruction.This book describes the natural and not-so-natural changes that have affected British rivers since the last ice age and looks at the many plants and animals that live along, above and within them. Detailed case ... Leer más

    $39,067 CLP

  • ¿Escasez de agua?

    Retos para la gestión de la cuenca del río Ica

    Seis artículos que abordan diferentes aspectos y problemáticas de la gestión del agua superficial y subterránea de la cuenca del río Ica. Actualmente, el Perú se encuentra ante una crisis de gobernabilidad en la gestión del agua, pues la demanda de este recurso ha aumentado, pero la oferta sigue siendo la misma o ha disminuido por la contaminación o el impacto del cambio climático en las cuencas. ... Leer más

    $13,685 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Major Rivers of the World | Earth Geography Grade 4 | Children's Geography & Cultures Books

    This time, you will read about the longest river in North America. Where does the Mississippi River begin and end? In which states does it flow through? What is the significant of the Mississippi River in the shaping of North American history and culture? If you are interested about geography and the major rivers in the world, then this book should be added to your collection. ... Leer más

    $5,348 CLP

  • Liminal Zones

    Where Lakes End and Rivers Begin

    de Kim Trevathan ...
    After the death of his paddling companion, a German shepherd–labrador retriever mix named Jasper, Kim Trevathan began a series of solitary upstream kayaking quests in search of what he calls “liminal zones,” transitional areas where dammed reservoirs give way to the current of the rivers that feed them. For four years he scoured the rivers and lakes of America, where environmentally damaging, and ... Leer más

    $19,335 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Vivre en castor

    Histoires de cohabitations et de réconciliation

    de Rémi Luglia ...
    Series series Hors collection
    Considéré comme « nuisible », le castor d’Europe était proche de l’extinction à la fin du XIXe siècle. Il est alors sauvé par des mesures innovantes de protection. Bien rares sont les espèces menacées qui connaissent un tel rétablissement, faisant ainsi de son cas un exemple.Pourtant, son retour dans des cours d’eau anthropisés pose la question de sa cohabitation avec l’homme. Sa réussite s’avère ... Leer más

    $11,500 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Indian River Lagoon

    An Environmental History

    Florida Historical Society Stetson Kennedy Book AwardStretching along 156 miles of Florida’s East Coast, the Indian River Lagoon contains the St. Lucie estuary, the Mosquito Lagoon, Banana River Lagoon, and the Indian River. It is a delicate ecosystem of shifting barrier islands and varying salinity levels due to its many inlets that open and close onto the ocean. The long, ribbon-like lagoon ... Leer más

    $15,263 CLP