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Cadillac Desert

The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

af Marc Reisner, Lawrie Mott ...

**“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Læs mere

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Redigeret af Tomoko M. Nakanishi, Martin O`Brien, Keitaro Tanoi ...

Serier serie Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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af Edward Humes ...

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of the world of garbage.Take a journey inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. It’s the biggest thing we make: The average American is on track to produce a whopping 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime, $50 billion in squandered riches rolled to the curb ... Læs mere

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af Ralph G. Scurlock ...

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Highway and Urban Environment

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Redigeret af Sébastien Rauch, G.M. Morrison, Andrés Monzón ...

Serier serie Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS). HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway Pollution". The initial aim was to measure and assess ... Læs mere

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af Urban Persson ...

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Cadillac Desert

Agricultural Implications of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident (III)

Garbology

Stratification, Rollover and Handling of LNG, LPG and Other Cryogenic Liquid Mixtures

Blue Mind

Bio-Clean Energy Technologies Volume 2

From Big Oil to Big Green

Air Purifier

Modern Age Environmental Problems and their Remediation

Carbon Capture, Storage and Utilization

Water Governance and Management in India

Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources

Aquatic Health and Aquaculture

Hazardous Waste Risk Assessment

Application of Nanotechnology in Biomedical Sciences

Analytics for the Sharing Economy: Mathematics, Engineering and Business Perspectives

Bioremediation of Industrial Waste for Environmental Safety

Highway and Urban Environment

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests

Understanding the Impact of Human Interventions on the Hydrology of Nile Basin Headwaters, the Case of Upper Tekeze Catchments

Construction for a Regenerative Future

Engineering Project Management

Environmental Aspects of Trace Elements in Coal