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 This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Zusammenfassung 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. This title explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Wohl, Ellen E. Wohl, WOHL ELLEN
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780226904788
• ISBN: 978-0-226-90478-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; 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