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Swamp

Author : Anthony Wilson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780238916
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Swamp written by Anthony Wilson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, swamps have been idealized and demonized, purged and protected. Today, they are simultaneously considered metaphorical places of evil, pestilence, and death, and treasured as diverse biological ecosystems teeming with life. Covering not only swamps and bogs but also marshes and wetlands, Swamp ventures into the cultural and ecological histories of these mysterious, mythologized, and misunderstood landscapes. Anthony Wilson takes readers into swamps across the globe, from the freshwater marshes of Botswana’s tremendous Okavango delta, to the notable swamps between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to the peat bogs in Russia, the British Isles, and Scandinavia, which have been used as energy sources for centuries. It explores ideas and representations of wetlands across centuries, cultures, and continents, considering legend and folklore, mythology, literature, film, and natural and cultural history. As it plumbs the murky depths of swamps from the distant past to an uncertain future, Swamps provides an engaging, accessible, informative, and lavishly illustrated journey into these fascinating landscapes.

Swamplands

Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830801
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Swamplands written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet's survival might depend on it.

Wetlands in a Dry Land

Author : Emily O'Gorman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749040
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Wetlands in a Dry Land written by Emily O'Gorman and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O’Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin—a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas—as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O’Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.

Wetland, Woodland, Wildland

Author : Elizabeth Hathaway Thompson
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Wetland, Woodland, Wildland written by Elizabeth Hathaway Thompson and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first field guide to all of Vermont's natural communities

Walking the Wetlands

Author : Janet Lyons
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Walking the Wetlands written by Janet Lyons and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1989-04-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a breezy, informal style, Jan Lyons and Sandra Jordan pull back the veil that has obscured these natural gold mines".--Governor Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey. 100 illustrations.

Florida's Wetlands

Author : Ellie Whitney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1561648485
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Florida's Wetlands written by Ellie Whitney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-17 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps. Introduces readers to the trees and plants, insects, mammals, reptiles, and other species that live in Florida's unique wetlands ecosystem, including the Virginia iris, American white waterlily, cypress, treefrogs, warblers, and the Florida black bear. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series

How to Make a Wetland

Author : Caterina Scaramelli
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503615413
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book How to Make a Wetland written by Caterina Scaramelli and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Make A Wetland tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty. On the Black Sea coast and the shores of the Aegean, farmers, scientists, fishermen, and families grapple with livelihoods in transition, as their environment is bound up in national and international conservation projects. Bridges and drainage canals, apartment buildings and highways—as well as the birds, water buffalo, and various animals of the regions—all inform a moral ecology in the making. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in wetlands and deltas, Caterina Scaramelli offers an anthropological understanding of sweeping environmental and infrastructural change, and the moral claims made on livability and materiality in Turkey, and beyond. Beginning from a moral ecological position, she takes into account the notion that politics is not simply projected onto animals, plants, soil, water, sediments, rocks, and other non-human beings and materials. Rather, people make politics through them. With this book, she highlights the aspirations, moral relations, and care practices in constant play in contestations and alliances over environmental change.

Wetlands

Author : George Mulamoottil
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 135140444X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Wetlands written by George Mulamoottil and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An understanding of environmental gradients (physical, chemical, hydrological, and biological) is a prerequisite to the accurate delineation of wetland boundaries. Presenting the wide-ranging views of academicians, environmentalists, policy makers, consultants, planners, engineers, hydrologists, biologists, geochemists, ecologists, and conservationists, Wetlands: Environmental Gradients, Boundaries, and Buffers focuses on current topics and research related to wetland delineation; summarizes the main issues of concern; and provides recommendations on research needs. In addition to integrating the most important research and theoretical aspects, this book includes a strong prescriptive component, providing practicing professionals with specific guidance on defining the true dimensions of a wetland area.

Fen, Bog and Swamp

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982173378
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Fen, Bog and Swamp written by Annie Proulx and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Literary Hub!* *A 2022 NBCC Awards Nonfiction Finalist and a 2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist* From Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Proulx, this riveting deep dive into the history of our wetlands and what their systematic destruction means for the planet “is both an enchanting work of nature writing and a rousing call to action” (Esquire). “I learned something new—and found something amazing—on every page.” —Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that accelerate climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are crucial to the earth’s survival, and in four illuminating parts, Proulx documents their systemic destruction in pursuit of profit. In a vivid and revelatory journey through history, Proulx describes the fens of 16th-century England, Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands, Russia’s Great Vasyugan Mire, and America’s Okeefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. She introduces the early explorers who launched the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and writes of the diseases spawned in the wetlands—the Ague, malaria, Marsh Fever. A sobering look at the degradation of wetlands over centuries and the serious ecological consequences, this is “an unforgettable and unflinching tour of past and present, fixed on a subject that could not be more important” (Bill McKibben). “A stark but beautifully written Silent Spring–style warning from one of our greatest novelists.” —The Christian Science Monitor

What are Wetlands?

Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780865059931
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book What are Wetlands? written by Bobbie Kalman and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates some types of wetlands, including swamps, salt marshes, bogs, and flood plains; the many plants and animals that live in wetlands; and the threats to these ecosystems.

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money

Author : Royal C Gardner
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610910257
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Lawyers, Swamps, and Money written by Royal C Gardner and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them. Readers will first learn the basics of administrative law: how agencies receive and exercise their authority, how they actually make laws, and how stakeholders can influence their behavior through the Executive Branch, Congress, the courts, and the media. These core concepts provide a base of knowledge for successive discussions of: the geographic scope and activities covered by the Clean Water Act the curious relationship between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency the goal of no net loss of wetlands the role of entrepreneurial wetland mitigation banking the tension between wetland mitigation bankers and in-lieu fee mitigation programs wetland regulation and private property rights. The book concludes with insightful policy recommendations to make wetlands law less ambiguous and more effective. A prominent legal scholar and wetlands expert, professor Royal C. Gardner has a rare knack for describing landmark cases and key statutes with uncommon clarity and even humor. Students of environmental law and policy and natural resource professionals will gain the thorough understanding of administrative law needed to navigate wetlands policy-and they may even enjoy it.

The Wetland Book

Author : C. Max Finlayson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789400740006
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Wetland Book written by C. Max Finlayson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wetland Book is a comprehensive resource aimed at supporting the trans- and multidisciplinary research and practice which is inherent to this field. Aware both that wetlands research is on the rise and that researchers and students are often working or learning across several disciplines, The Wetland Book is a readily accessible online and print reference which will be the first port of call on key concepts in wetlands science and management. This easy-to-follow reference will allow multidisciplinary teams and transdisciplinary individuals to look up terms, access further details, read overviews on key issues and navigate to key articles selected by experts.

Freshwater Marshes

Author : Milton Webster Weller
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816624062
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Freshwater Marshes written by Milton Webster Weller and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wetlands of the United States

Author : Samuel P. Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Wetlands of the United States written by Samuel P. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wetlands

Author : William J. Mitsch
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471699675
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Wetlands written by William J. Mitsch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-08-24 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new Fourth Edition maintains the authoritative quality of its predecessors while offering such revisions as: * Refocused coverage on the three main parts of the book: 1. An introduction to the extent, definitions, and general features of wetlands of the world; 2. Wetland science; and 3. Wetland management. * New chapter on climate change and wetlands that introduces the student to the roles that wetlands have in climate change and impact that climate change has on wetlands. * Increased international coverage, including wetlands of Mexico and Central America, the Congolian Swamp and Sine Saloum Delta of Africa, the Western Siberian Lowlands, the Mesopotamian Marshland restoration in Iraq, and the wetland parks of Asia such as Xixi National Wetland Park in eastern China and Gandau Nature Park in Taipei, Taiwan. This expanded coverage is illustrated with over 50 wetland photographs from around the world. * Several hundred new refer?ences for further reading, up-to-date data, and the latest research findings. * Over 35 new info boxes and sidebars provide essential background information to concepts being presented and case studies of wetland restoration and treatment in practice.

Guide to Wetlands

Author : Patrick Dugan
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Guide to Wetlands written by Patrick Dugan and published by Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and fascinating guide to the wetlands of the world that covers important wetland wildlife in detail, with a special focus on birds. The ecology of marshes, estuaries, floodplains, lagoons, swamps and bogs supports an exceptionally rich diversity of species. Many wetlands around the world are now open to the public as nature reserves that generate millions of visitors including birdwatchers and amateur ecologists. Guide to Wetlands covers the many aspects of the study of wetlands in a single, portable volume. Using spectacular color photographs and clear explanatory illustrations alongside the author's concise text, it discusses: What are wetlands Wetland diversity How wetlands work The need for wetlands Adapting to life in wetlands Plant adaptation Animal adaptation People and wetlands Loss of wetlands Rural development and agriculture Wetland conservation Wetland wildlife. The book includes a wetland atlas with maps identifying wetland environments around the world and describing topography and important features. Birdwatchers will find this book of particular interest. Guide to Wetlands is an essential reference on a crucial aspect of the global environment that will appeal to naturalists, birdwatchers, ecologists and travelers.

Wetlands of the United States

Author : Ralph W. Tiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Wetlands of the United States written by Ralph W. Tiner and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: