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Author : Kamini Khanduri
Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780590208499
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Protecting Rivers & Seas written by Kamini Khanduri and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 5, 6, 7, 8, e, i, s.
Author : F. Brooks
Publisher : Edc Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780881105292
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Protecting Rivers and Seas written by F. Brooks and published by Edc Pub. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the threats to marine and freshwater habitats, from pollution to overfishing, and explains how and why we must act now to conserve them.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 9780309045346
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (453 download)
Download or read book Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic," once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to begin with." The concept he expressedâ€"restorationâ€"is defined in this comprehensive new volume that examines the prospects for repairing the damage society has done to the nation's aquatic resources: lakes, rivers and streams, and wetlands. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems outlines a national strategy for aquatic restoration, with practical recommendations, and features case studies of aquatic restoration activities around the country. The committee examines: Key concepts and techniques used in restoration. Common factors in successful restoration efforts. Threats to the health of the nation's aquatic ecosystems. Approaches to evaluation before, during, and after a restoration project. The emerging specialties of restoration and landscape ecology.
Author : Catherine Barr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0744090237
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The World's Wildest Waters written by Catherine Barr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully presented entry point text about our oceans and other watery worlds for 6 years and up Dive into the world's wildest oceans, rivers, and waterways and get ready for an underwater adventure! Embark on the journey of a lifetime to 20 of the world's wildest waters! Explore each environment and learn about the people who are working to preserve them for future generations. Meet the creatures who call these watery worlds home and discover how you can take active steps to make a difference. Featuring colorful original illustrations and stunning photography, The World's Wildest Oceans brings the excitement of the high seas and the mystery of the ocean's dark, hidden depths to your lap.
Author : Erin O'Donnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429889607
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Legal Rights for Rivers written by Erin O'Donnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2017 four rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand, India, and Colombia were given the status of legal persons, and there was a recent attempt to extend these rights to the Colorado River in the USA. Understanding the implications of creating legal rights for rivers is an urgent challenge for both water resource management and environmental law. Giving rivers legal rights means the law can see rivers as legal persons, thus creating new legal rights which can then be enforced. When rivers are legally people, does that encourage collaboration and partnership between humans and rivers, or establish rivers as another competitor for scarce resources? To assess what it means to give rivers legal rights and legal personality, this book examines the form and function of environmental water managers (EWMs). These organisations have legal personality, and have been active in water resource management for over two decades. EWMs operate by acquiring water rights from irrigators in rivers where there is insufficient water to maintain ecological health. EWMs can compete with farmers for access to water, but they can also strengthen collaboration between traditionally divergent users of the aquatic environment, such as environmentalists, recreational fishers, hunters, farmers, and hydropower. This book explores how EWMs use the opportunities created by giving nature legal rights, such as the ability to participate in markets, enter contracts, hold property, and enforce those rights in court. However, examination of the EWMs unearths a crucial and unexpected paradox: giving legal rights to nature may increase its legal power, but in doing so it can weaken community support for protecting the environment in the first place. The book develops a new conceptual framework to identify the multiple constructions of the environment in law, and how these constructions can interact to generate these unexpected outcomes. It explores EWMs in the USA and Australia as examples, and assesses the implications of creating legal rights for rivers for water governance. Lessons from the EWMs, as well as early lessons from the new ‘river persons,’ show how to use the law to improve river protection and how to begin to mitigate the problems of the paradox.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309179254
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Water Management written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains a collection of papers from a workshopâ€"Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunisia. Participants, including scientists, decision makers, representatives of non-profit organizations, and a farmer, came from the United States and several countries in North Africa and the Middle East. The papers examined constraints to agricultural production as it relates to water scarcity; focusing on 1) the state of the science regarding water management for agricultural purposes in the Middle East and North Africa 2) how science can be applied to better manage existing water supplies to optimize the domestic production of food and fiber. The cross-cutting themes of the workshop were the elements or principles of science-based decision making, the role of the scientific community in ensuring that science is an integral part of the decision making process, and ways to improve communications between scientists and decision makers.
Author : Cathryn Berger Kaye
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631987518
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Make a Splash! written by Cathryn Berger Kaye and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teach elementary kids about the water crisis and empower them to take action. Water is one of the most critical issues of our time. Make a Splash! provides a kid-friendly overview of Earth's ocean and waterways and how kids can help protect and restore this water planet. Filled with facts about our waters, their inhabitants, and the threats they face, this book has inspiring stories of kids in action and ideas for kids to make a difference. In fun and age-appropriate language, kids are introduced to ways they can be water changemakers and advocates. Youth groups, science teachers, and teachers of restoration, sustainability, and environmentalism units will find this book to be a valuable resource. Also included are fluid facts, splashy sources, bubbly books, watery websites, and a glossary. New in the second edition of Make a Splash!: updated facts and statistics the importance of restoration and sustainability over conservation an update on restoration efforts 10 years after the 2010 Gulf oil spill and the Flint water crisis more information about ocean acidification advice for kids on creating an elevator pitch for their going blue efforts Authored by international educational (more...)
Author : Wil de Jong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136538097
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Transborder Governance of Forests, Rivers and Seas written by Wil de Jong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities. This book illustrates the diversity of transborder natural resources, the pressures that they experience or the opportunities that exist for multinational regulatory regimes, monitoring and enforcement. It presents ten case studies of transborder natural resources that are of interest to two or more neighboring countries, and that are subject to, or in need of bilateral or multinational coordinated management. The case studies include the exploitation of specific marine resources in international waters, rivers that travel through several countries and contiguous tropical forests across national borders, and where commodities, nature conservation or even territorial integrity are at stake. They are drawn from across the globe, including flood management in Western Europe, tropical forests in the Western Amazon, hydropower development in the Mekong region of South-east Asia, forest conservation in Central Africa and marine resource and fisheries exploitation in the waters of Japan, South-east Asia and Australia. Together the chapters provide a review of a wide range of transborder natural resource examples, and the diverse regulatory regimes that need to be devised to achieve successful management. An introductory chapter provides a conceptual and theoretical underpinning that can guide future research efforts on similar cases and a concluding chapter draws major conclusions and implications for related concepts and theories.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Estuaries written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Bowermaster
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 145875975X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Oceans written by Jon Bowermaster and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays by leading experts examining the current condition of the world's oceans and their inhabitants and emphasizing the need to preserve them from the threat of pollution, overfishing, dead zones, and global warming.
Author : Humphry William Woolrych
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book A Treatise of the Law of Waters written by Humphry William Woolrych and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephanie C. Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781439909300
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Where Rivers Meet the Sea written by Stephanie C. Kane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing law
Author : Josh Weinberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000511413
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Source-to-Sea Management written by Josh Weinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of its kind on the emerging topic of source-to-sea management. It showcases different applications of the concept to improve the environmental health of freshwater, land and coastal and marine systems, drawing upon research performed across Europe, Africa and Asia. Improved management of land, freshwater, coasts and oceans is a key environmental challenge of our time. It is needed to prevent the millions of tons of plastic and other pollutants that enter the ocean from land-based sources each year. It is essential to reduce highly polluted, oxygen-depleted “dead zones” in our coastal and marine waters. Extensive diversions of the flows of rivers need to be avoided to ensure that little or no water reaches the sea. Source-to-sea (S2S) is an emerging concept to improve understanding of how to effectively manage freshwater, land, coastal and marine systems. The collected works in this book explore experiences with S2S management in diverse regions across Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, addressing sedimentation, nutrient and pharmaceutical pollution in freshwater and marine aquatic environments, and marine debris on the coasts and in the seas. It provides key insights into a few areas that should be of interest to those who want to learn from the lessons from case studies of applied S2S interventions. This book will be of great value to scholars, students and researchers interested in global freshwater, coastal zone, ocean management, sustainable development and environmental governance. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Water International.
Author : Pam Robson
Publisher : Copper Beach Books
ISBN 13 : 9780761324218
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (242 download)
Download or read book Rivers and Seas written by Pam Robson and published by Copper Beach Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses interactive projects to show how streams and oceans shape the land.
Author : Peter Gough
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Download or read book From Sea to Source 2.0 written by Peter Gough and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynne Turner
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN 13 : 0643103031
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Where River Meets Sea written by Lynne Turner and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estuaries are dynamic coastal waterways where salt and fresh water mix. Where River Meets Sea describes the value and status of Australia's 974 estuaries and takes readers on a state-by-state tour describing the health, geography, science, management and ecological functions of these unique coastal waterways. It includes profiles of people and their relationships with estuaries. The book's many photographs, maps, case studies and diagrams will help Australians to better understand, appreciate and wisely use these natural areas. Chapters on natural history, coastal science and management give an understanding of our vast network of pristine and heavily modified estuaries – from isolated tide-dominated estuaries in Australia's tropical north to those shaped by waves in southern, temperate waters. Other chapters show how people use and value coastal catchments and waterways, the impacts of human development on natural ecosystems, and how estuaries can be better managed in future. Where River Meets Sea aims to provide Australians with a deeper appreciation of our coastal waterways that are both vital for our economy and precious to our quality of life. This is a re-issued version of the original work published by the CRC for Coastal Zone Estuary and Waterway Management in 2004,
Author : Marshall DeBruhl
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582437688
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)
Download or read book The River Sea written by Marshall DeBruhl and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its discovery by Europeans in 1500, explorers, visionaries, soldiers of fortune, men of God, scientists, and slavers have been drawn to the legendary Amazon. The River Sea is a sweeping chronicle of those brave and hardy souls, ranging from the Spanish seafarer Vicente Pinzón, who discovered the river, to contemporary heroes and heroines, like Sister Dorothy Stang and Chico Mendes, whose efforts to save the rain forest cost them their lives. Among the vast cast of characters who people this drama of the Amazon are Francisco de Orellana, the first European to traverse the river from the Andes to the sea; the fiery priest Bartolomé de las Casas, defender of the indigenous peoples; the great scientist explorers Alexander von Humboldt and Alfred Russel Wallace; the madman and psychopath Lope de Aguirre; and the Peruvian Evangeline, Isabel Godin, who in 1769 crossed the continent, braving the terrors of the jungles to reunite with her husband, whom she had not seen in twenty years. The River Sea is a compelling account of five centuries of the history, the myths, and the legends of Río Amazonas, the most exotic and fascinating locale on earth.
