World of Rivers - Environmental Change on Ten of the World''s Great Rivers

Informationen zum Autor Ellen Wohl is professor of geosciences at Colorado State University and the author of! most recently! Of Rock and Rivers: Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West. Klappentext Explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Yellow River in China to Central Europe's Danube! this book shows us how pollution! such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia! has affected biodiversity in the water. Zusammenfassung Explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Yellow River in China to Central Europe's Danube! this book shows us how pollution! such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia! has affected biodiversity in the water.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Wohl, WOHL ELLEN
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.2012
• EAN: 9780226007601
• ISBN: 978-0-226-00760-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Limnology, Conservation of the environment, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Limnology (inland waters), Limnology (Freshwater), Freshwater life: general interest