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  • L'eau dans l'espace rural

    Vie et milieux aquatiques

    Une synthèse accessible aux étudiants, enseignants, décideurs et tout citoyen, pêcheur ou non, inquiet de la dégradation des milieux aquatiques : rappel du fonctionnement des principaux écosystèmes aquatiques, analyse des relations vie piscicole/environnement aquatique (avec, pour exemple, les rivières à Salmonidés et les lacs périalpins) ; évolution récente de la qualité des hydrosystèmes, sous l ... Leer más

    $529 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wild and Scenic Rivers of America

    de Tim Palmer ...
    The National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is one of the most important natural areas protection programs ever established at the federal level. It has resulted in the creation of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System -- a rich American legacy that includes many of our finest waterways. This book is the definitive resource on the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Topics covered include:the ... Leer más

    Antes $490 MXN Ahora $347 MXN

  • The Source

    How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers

    de Martin Doyle ...
    “An original and thought-provoking exploration of the sinuous course that water has carved through our economic and political landscape.” —Gerard Helferich, Wall Street JournalIn a powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle tells the epic story of America and its rivers, from the U.S. Constitution’s roots in interstate river navigation, to the failure of the levees in Hurricane Katrina ... Leer más

    $213 MXN

  • Heartbeats in the Muck

    The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor

    de John Waldman ...
    "Gives the reader a sense of lost New York, of the incredibly rich and biologically diverse ecosystem that once was the lower Hudson River estuary." —Ted Steinberg, author of Gotham UnboundHeartbeats in the Muck traces the incredible arc of New York Harbor's environmental history. Once a pristine estuary bristling with oysters and striped bass and visited by sharks, porpoises, and seals, the ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The River You Touch

    Making a Life on Moving Water

    "We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us." —from The River You Touch When Chris Dombrowski burst onto the literary scene with Body of Water, the book was acclaimed as "a classic" (Jim ... Leer más

    $243 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Peace in Peril

    The Real Cost of the Site C Dam

    In the next decade, a 60-metre-high wall of compacted earth will stretch more than a kilometre across the main stem of the Peace River, causing the waters behind it to swell into a 93-square-kilometre artificial lake, drowning the best topsoil left in the BC north. The waters will swallow fifty islands and a valley that is home to farmers, ranchers, trappers and habitat to innumerable creatures ... Leer más

    $225 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • River Rejuvenation and River Rights

    Evolving Debates in India

    Edición de Philippe Cullet, Ruchi Shree ...
    This book draws on interdisciplinary research deploying ‘river rights’ and ‘water justice’ as conceptual frameworks to engage with laws and politics around waterbodies. It underlines the simultaneity of micro and macro aspects to make sense of the complexities around ‘river rejuvenation’ in India.This book engages with different ideas of rejuvenation, illuminating what goes under the name of ... Leer más

    $1,066 MXN

  • Elwha

    A River Reborn

    CLICK HERE to download the first chapter from Elwha: A River Reborn(Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox)A compelling exploration of one of the largest dam removal projects in the world—and the efforts to save a stunning Northwest ecosystem* Co-published with The Seattle Times* 125 color photographs... ... Leer más

    $371 MXN

  • A Year In A Ditch

    Rivers, canals and many glorious waterways are championed and admired at every opportunity. Sadly, not so the humble ditch; yet they are the all-important capillaries supplying the veins of our far more visual watercourses.In no way a dry river-bed of hard facts, A Year in a Ditch is informative and a source of knowledge to anyone interested in exploring the delights and habitat created by ditches ... Leer más

    $137 MXN

  • Elementals: Water, Vol. 3

    Elementals, #3

    Series Libro 3 - Elementals
    Water, Volume 3 of the 5-Volume Elementals series, is a stunning collection of essays, poetry, and stories that illuminate the dynamic relationships between people and place, human and nonhuman life, mind and the material world, and the living energies that make all life possible.We are deeply dependent on water. In conjunction with the other elementals, water makes us and the living Earth ... Leer más

    $430 MXN

  • What the River Carries

    Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte

    de Lisa Knopp ...
    In this informed and lyrical collection of interwoven essays, Lisa Knopp explores the physical and cultural geography of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte, rivers she has come to understand and cherish. At the same time, she contemplates how people experience landscape, identifying three primary roles of environmental perception: the insider, the outsider, and the outsider seeking to become an ... Leer más

    $260 MXN

  • ¿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

    $229 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Undammed

    Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life

    de Tara Lohan ...
    Free-flowing rivers in the United States are an endangered species. With more than 500,000 dams in place, we’ve dammed and diverted almost every major river, straightening curves and blocking passage for fish and other aquatic animals, pushing many to the brink. Now a heartening new movement is helping to demolish harmful or obsolete structures and restore new life to rivers and the communities ... Leer más

    $396 MXN

  • Managing the River Commons

    Fishing and New England's Rural Economy

    de Erik Reardon ...
    Series series Environmental History of the Northeast
    New England once hosted large numbers of anadromous fish, which migrate between rivers and the sea. Salmon, shad, and alewives served a variety of functions within the region's preindustrial landscape, furnishing not only maritime areas but also agricultural communities with an important source of nutrition and a valued article of rural exchange.Historian Erik Reardon argues that to protect these ... Leer más

    $272 MXN

  • Great Lakes Champions

    Grassroots Efforts to Clean Up Polluted Watersheds

    The Great Lakes—containing one-fifth of the standing freshwater on earth, covering some 94,250 square miles with a combined 10,210 miles of shoreline—have suffered greatly from human use and abuse since the advent of the commercial fur trade in the late 1600s. Logging destroys or degrades habitats, urbanization and industrialization pour human and industrial wastes into the water, fertilizers ... Leer más

    $309 MXN

  • A História Da Navegação

    de Ruben Ygua ...
    Temos complicado demais o estudo do passado, dando maior importância a pontos de vista, interesses nacionalistas, religiosos e morais, que colocam o fato histórico em segundo plano, subordinado aos interesses do sistema. Chegou a hora de simplificar e mostrar respeito pelos nossos antepassados, esforçando-nos para saber o que realmente aconteceu no passado, e não apenas aquilo que as versões ... Leer más

    $139 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Papyrus and Wetlands Management in Africa

    Past, Present and Future Challenges

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the influence that the papyrus plant has had on African wetlands (with a particular focus on the Nile) in the past, and how this may change with the oncoming threats of climate change.The papyrus plant is one of the fastest growing in the world and it forms the dominant vegetation in almost all sub-Saharan wetlands, and particularly the Nile Basin ... Leer más

    $1,066 MXN

  • Every Day the River Changes

    Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

    de Jordan Salama ...
    An exhilarating 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.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 Colombia. This is Gabriel García ... Leer más

    $212 MXN

  • Sky Time in Gray's River

    Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

    An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River--long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author.Sky Time in Gray ... Leer más

    $212 MXN

  • Water Conflicts and Resistance

    Issues and Challenges in South Asia

    Edición de Venkatesh Dutta ...
    Series series Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
    This book presents a systematic study of transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across several river basins in South Asia. Addressing hydro-socio-economic aspects in competing water sharing and transfer agreements, as well as conflicting regimes of legal plurality, property rights and policy implementation, it discusses themes such as rights over land and natural ... Leer más

    $1,032 MXN

  • Travels on the St. Johns River

    A selection of writings from naturalists John and William Bartram, who explored Florida in 1765In 1765 father and son naturalists John and William Bartram explored the St. Johns River Valley in Florida, a newly designated British territory and subtropical wonderland. They collected specimens and recorded extensive observations of the region’s plants, animals, geography, ecology, and Native ... Leer más

    $310 MXN

  • Valoración de servicios ecosistémicos generados por la construcción de infraestructuras

    desarrollo de la metodologÌa

    La valoración de los servicios ecosistémicos, bien sean naturales o generados por la incorporación de infraestructuras al medio, es una demanda cada día más presente en todos los estudios medioambientales. En los últimos decenios han sido numerosas las tentativas que se han llevado a cabo tratando de cuantificar la riqueza que los Bienes y Servicios Ecosistémicos aportan. Se han empleado distintos ... Leer más

    $124 MXN

  • Downstream Toward Home

    A Book of Rivers

    American rivers are among the most diverse and challenging in the world, and for many the excitement and escape they offer develops into a lifelong pursuit. In Downstream Toward Home, Oliver A. Houck recounts his six decades exploring America's waterways,from unnamed creeks and Louisiana swamps to the rivers of western canyons and the Alaskan tundra.This engaging travelogue leads readers down over ... Leer más

    $326 MXN

  • Tales of the Angler's Eldorado: New Zealand

    A Journey Through New Zealand's Angler's Paradise

    de Zane Grey ...
    In "Tales of the Angler's Eldorado: New Zealand," Zane Grey transports readers to the breathtaking landscapes of New Zealand, intertwining his passion for fishing with vivid storytelling. This collection of short stories embodies Grey's hallmark literary style'Äîlyrical prose and rich, immersive descriptions that evoke both the beauty and adventure of angling. Set against the backdrop of New ... Leer más

    $39 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus