"Nothing is more important to life than water, and no one knows water better than Sandra Postel. Replenish is a wise, sobering, but ultimately hopeful book." —Elizabeth Kolbert**"Remarkable." —New York Times Book Review"Clear-eyed treatise...Postel makes her case eloquently." —Booklist, starred review**"An informative, purposeful argument." —KirkusWe have disrupted the natural water cycle ...

For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper sanitation and each year four million children die of water-borne diseases. As most of the world?s major river systems cross several national boundaries, the scope disputes and the threat to international security is becoming more and more real.In The Last Oasis, Sandra Postel examines the...

Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, forage, and timber, are worth many trillions of dollars annually, and nothing could live without them. Yet growing human impacts on the environment are profoundly disrupting the functioning of natural systems and imperiling the delivery of these services.Nature's Services brings toget...

" . . . a one-of-a-kind treasure."—Library Journal ReviewsWhat if rivers could talk and tell their stories? What would they tell us? In What Rivers Know, artist Basia Irland insinuates herself as the voice of major waterways as they struggle to navigate their changing relationships with humans and climate change. By hearing what the rivers have to say, Irland asserts we can attune ourselves to the “braided fusion of energies” in our natural world,...

The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recent years, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not on a minimum amount of water at any one time but on the naturally variable quantity and timing of flows throughout the year.In Rivers for Life, leading water experts Sandra Po...

Der Sammelband widmet sich einer umfassenden Betrachtung des deutschen Gesundheits- und Pflegesystems aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Dazu gehören neben den tatsächlichen Versorgungsbedarfen der pflegeempfangenden Menschen sowie deren Zu- und Angehörigen in ihren Lebenswelten auch das Berufsfeld der Pflegeprofession und die bestehenden Strukturen in der Gesundheitsversorgung. Im Versorgungsalltag zeichnet sich ab, dass die Perspektive der Pflege- und Gesundheitsfachpersonen und die Perspek...

Through a series of essays by leading demographers, environmentalists and reproductive health advocates, A Pivotal Moment offers a new perspective on the complex connection between population dynamics and environmental quality. It presents the latest research on the relationship between population growth and climate change, ecosystem health and other environmental issues. It surveys the new demographic landscape—in which population growth rates have fallen, but human numbers continue to in...