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Rivers Seas and Oceans
Author | : Mack,Mack Gageldonk |
Publsiher | : Mack's World of Wonder |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2017-10-16 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1605373540 |
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Discusses the importance of water to planet Earth, including what animals live in water and where the most beautiful bodies of water are.
Rivers Lakes and Oceans
Author | : Jason D. Nemeth |
Publsiher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2012-01-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781448865154 |
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Life as we know it would be impossible without water. Luckily for us and the other organisms with which we share our planet, Earth has so much water that it is sometimes known as the water planet. This engrossing volume describes where water can be found in its solid, liquid, and gaseous states. The book offers the details of Earths water cycle and highlights the importance of both freshwater and salt water. It also tackles the unpleasant but pressing topic of water pollution. Readers will love the beautiful photographs of rivers, lakes, oceans, and more.
Earth s Rivers
Author | : Bobbie Kalman |
Publsiher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0778732088 |
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Learn about the characteristics, origins, formation, and uses of rivers.
A World of Rivers
Author | : Ellen Wohl |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2010-11-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780226904801 |
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Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can’t step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree—natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world’s great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes. A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Murray-Darling in Australia and the Yellow River in China to Central Europe’s Danube and the United States’ Mississippi, the book journeys down the most important rivers in all corners of the globe. Wohl shows us how pollution, such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia, has affected biodiversity in the water. But rivers are also resilient, and Wohl stresses the importance of conservation and restoration to help reverse the effects of human carelessness and hubris. What all these diverse rivers share is a critical role in shaping surrounding landscapes and biological communities, and Wohl’s book ultimately makes a strong case for the need to steward positive change in the world’s great rivers.
Where the River Flows
Author | : Sean W. Fleming |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780691191829 |
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Rivers are essential to every aspect of civilization, yet how many understand how they work? Fleming takes readers on a journey along our planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the profound interrelationships that rivers have with landscapes, ecosystems, and societies.
Rocks Rivers and the Changing Earth
Author | : Herman Schneider,Nina Schneider |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014-10-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780486782010 |
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This illustrated introduction to geology offers young readers insights into everyday signs of our constantly changing environment. Fascinating subjects include rivers of ice, the rise of volcanoes, and the formation of precious stones.
Rivers of the Anthropocene
Author | : Jason M. Kelly,Philip Scarpino,Helen Berry,James Syvitski,Michel Meybeck |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780520295025 |
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch of humans' own making. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines—from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy—this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene.
Rivers for Life
Author | : Sandra Postel,Brian Richter |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2012-06-22 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597267809 |
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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 Postel and Brian Richter explain why restoring and preserving more natural river flows are key to sustaining freshwater biodiversity and healthy river systems, and describe innovative policies, scientific approaches, and management reforms for achieving those goals. Sandra Postel and Brian Richter: explain the value of healthy rivers to human and ecosystem health; describe the ecological processes that support river ecosystems and how they have been disrupted by dams, diversions, and other alterations; consider the scientific basis for determining how much water a river needs; examine new management paradigms focused on restoring flow patterns and sustaining ecological health; assess the policy options available for managing rivers and other freshwater systems; explore building blocks for better river governance. Sandra Postel and Brian Richter offer case studies of river management from the United States (the San Pedro, Green, and Missouri), Australia (the Brisbane), and South Africa (the Sabie), along with numerous examples of new and innovative policy approaches that are being implemented in those and other countries. Rivers for Life presents a global perspective on the challenges of managing water for people and nature, with a concise yet comprehensive overview of the relevant science, policy, and management issues. It presents exciting and inspirational information for anyone concerned with water policy, planning and management, river conservation, freshwater biodiversity, or related topics.