Water Wars
Autor Diane Raines Warden Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2003
Updated with new material
Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.
Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781573229951
ISBN-10: 1573229954
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 132 x 207 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House SEA
ISBN-10: 1573229954
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 132 x 207 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Random House SEA
Cuprins
Water Wars Introduction
Sweet Water
Chapter 1
Hold Back the Sea
Climate Shock and Rising Waters
Chapter 2
A Sin of Scale
The Great Projects
Chapter 3
A Thousand Valleys
River Basins and Utopian Dreams
Chapter 4
Dry, Drier, Driest
Greening the Desert
Chapter 5
Predicaments
Power and Water
Chapter 6
Raging Rivers
Living in Floodplains
Chapter 7
The Wars
Chapter 8
Praying for Rain
Epilogue
The Everglades
Notes
Glossary and Abbreviations
Selected Bibliography by Subject
Acknowledgments
Index
Sweet Water
Chapter 1
Hold Back the Sea
Climate Shock and Rising Waters
Chapter 2
A Sin of Scale
The Great Projects
Chapter 3
A Thousand Valleys
River Basins and Utopian Dreams
Chapter 4
Dry, Drier, Driest
Greening the Desert
Chapter 5
Predicaments
Power and Water
Chapter 6
Raging Rivers
Living in Floodplains
Chapter 7
The Wars
Chapter 8
Praying for Rain
Epilogue
The Everglades
Notes
Glossary and Abbreviations
Selected Bibliography by Subject
Acknowledgments
Index
Recenzii
"Thorough and thoughtful." —Detroit Free-Press
"An engaging story...[with] plenty to inspire and alarm." —Business Week
"Riveting...I will never turn on the tap again without thinking about where the water comes from and where it goes." —Ken Burns, producer/director of the "Civil War", "Baseball", and "Jazz" documentaries
"Clear, jargon free...comprehensive." —The Baltimore Sun
"A wonderful book [with] splendid insight." —Environmental News
"Important [and] impressive." —Ottawa Citizen
"An engaging story...[with] plenty to inspire and alarm." —Business Week
"Riveting...I will never turn on the tap again without thinking about where the water comes from and where it goes." —Ken Burns, producer/director of the "Civil War", "Baseball", and "Jazz" documentaries
"Clear, jargon free...comprehensive." —The Baltimore Sun
"A wonderful book [with] splendid insight." —Environmental News
"Important [and] impressive." —Ottawa Citizen
Notă biografică
Diane Raines Ward is a journalist whose work has appeared in Smithsonian, Newsweek, Connoisseur, and International Wildlife. She and her husband, Geoffrey C. Ward, co-wrote the book Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats. Together they run a nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation efforts in India.