Author: Honor Head
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 153823498X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Earth's wetlands are crucially important land areas that can easily get overlooked when talking about bodies of water. Wetlands hold some of the most concentrated biodiversity of any ecosystem and act as a filter to help keep our water clean. This book explores the danger facing our wetlands, and what is at stake if we do not reverse the damage. The final spread gives readers the chance to conduct their own environmental investigation with guidelines on how to observe, monitor, and analyze the health of a wetland area. This volume introduces an important part of our ecosystem to the reader's attention and inspires scientists of all levels to take action.
Poisoned Wetlands
Author: Honor Head
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 153823498X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Earth's wetlands are crucially important land areas that can easily get overlooked when talking about bodies of water. Wetlands hold some of the most concentrated biodiversity of any ecosystem and act as a filter to help keep our water clean. This book explores the danger facing our wetlands, and what is at stake if we do not reverse the damage. The final spread gives readers the chance to conduct their own environmental investigation with guidelines on how to observe, monitor, and analyze the health of a wetland area. This volume introduces an important part of our ecosystem to the reader's attention and inspires scientists of all levels to take action.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN: 153823498X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Earth's wetlands are crucially important land areas that can easily get overlooked when talking about bodies of water. Wetlands hold some of the most concentrated biodiversity of any ecosystem and act as a filter to help keep our water clean. This book explores the danger facing our wetlands, and what is at stake if we do not reverse the damage. The final spread gives readers the chance to conduct their own environmental investigation with guidelines on how to observe, monitor, and analyze the health of a wetland area. This volume introduces an important part of our ecosystem to the reader's attention and inspires scientists of all levels to take action.
Our Poisoned Waters
Author: Edward F. Dolan
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525652205
Category : Pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the serious problem of water pollution in both fresh and salt water bodies throughout the world and describes what is being done about it.
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
ISBN: 9780525652205
Category : Pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the serious problem of water pollution in both fresh and salt water bodies throughout the world and describes what is being done about it.
Canadian Wetlands
Author: Rod Giblett
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783202513
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers. The book will engender mutual respect between researchers for the contribution that different disciplinary approaches can and do make to the study and conservation of wetlands internationally.
Publisher: Intellect Books
ISBN: 1783202513
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In Canadian Wetlands, Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers. The book will engender mutual respect between researchers for the contribution that different disciplinary approaches can and do make to the study and conservation of wetlands internationally.
Waterbirds Around the World
Author: G. C. Boere
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0114973334
Category : Flyways
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
This book is the outcome of a major international conference on waterbirds held in Edinburgh in April 2004.
Publisher: The Stationery Office
ISBN: 0114973334
Category : Flyways
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
This book is the outcome of a major international conference on waterbirds held in Edinburgh in April 2004.
Cities and Wetlands
Author: Rod Giblett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474269834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474269834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
Wetlands of Kenya
Author: Steven G. Njuguna
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831701271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A source book for future research and management activities, these 20 papers cover wetland issues in Kenya and underline the need for a national wetland program.
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831701271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A source book for future research and management activities, these 20 papers cover wetland issues in Kenya and underline the need for a national wetland program.
Wetlands, Water, and the Law
Author: Clare Shine
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831704784
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing damaging processes and activities and, lastly, regional and international frameworks for cooperation. The book complements the recent work of scientists and economists by describing how laws and institutions can work for (or against) wetland conservation and wise use. Each chapter makes the link between international legal obligations and national or local mechanisms for delivering implementation. Drawing on national practice around the world, the book illustrates how different legal approaches and techniques can be adapted to widely-varying national conditions and capabilities. Key components for legal and institutional frameworks suited to the challenge of wise use implementations are set out in the conclusion.
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831704784
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This publication sets wetlands in their scientific, economic and legal context, before describing the main legal issues involved in implementing the Ramsar Convention. Parts 3-6 take an increasingly broad focus, dealing respectively with site-specific and bioregional approaches to wetland management, generally-applicable techniques for managing damaging processes and activities and, lastly, regional and international frameworks for cooperation. The book complements the recent work of scientists and economists by describing how laws and institutions can work for (or against) wetland conservation and wise use. Each chapter makes the link between international legal obligations and national or local mechanisms for delivering implementation. Drawing on national practice around the world, the book illustrates how different legal approaches and techniques can be adapted to widely-varying national conditions and capabilities. Key components for legal and institutional frameworks suited to the challenge of wise use implementations are set out in the conclusion.
Wetlands
Author: Peter D. Moore
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438100698
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Describes the wetlands biome, including climate, geology, geography and biodiversity.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438100698
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Describes the wetlands biome, including climate, geology, geography and biodiversity.
Okoboji Wetlands
Author: Michael J. Lannoo
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587291290
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa is the jewel of the Iowa Great Lakes. A region of wetlands formed by prairie potholes, the area is rich with lakes, sloughs, fens, creeks, prairies, and kettleholes. In this readable and beautifully illustrated volume, Michael Lannoo presents an extensive natural history of Okoboji and its cherished wetlands that examines that world of our grandparents, compares it to today's world, and extrapolates to the world of our grandchildren.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587291290
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa is the jewel of the Iowa Great Lakes. A region of wetlands formed by prairie potholes, the area is rich with lakes, sloughs, fens, creeks, prairies, and kettleholes. In this readable and beautifully illustrated volume, Michael Lannoo presents an extensive natural history of Okoboji and its cherished wetlands that examines that world of our grandparents, compares it to today's world, and extrapolates to the world of our grandchildren.
Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America, Volume I
Author: Garrett E. Crow
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299163341
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This is by far the best and most comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants—ferns, conifers, and flowering plants—growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and south to Virginia and Missouri. Published in two volumes, this long-awaited work completely revises and greatly expands Norman Fassett’s 1940 classic A Manual of Aquatic Plants, yet retains the features that made Fassett’s book so useful. Features include: * coverage of 1139 plant species, 1186 taxa, 295 genera, 109 families * more than 600 pages of illustrations, and illustrations for more than 90% of the taxa * keys for each species include references to corresponding illustrations * habitat information, geographical ranges, and synonomy * a chapter on nuisance aquatic weeds * glossaries of botanical and habitat terms * a full index for each volume Wetland ecologists, botanists, resource managers, public naturalists, and environmentalists concerned with the preservation of wetland areas, which are increasingly threatened, will welcome this clear, workable, and comprehensive guide.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299163341
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
This is by far the best and most comprehensive manual and illustrated guide to native and naturalized vascular plants—ferns, conifers, and flowering plants—growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and south to Virginia and Missouri. Published in two volumes, this long-awaited work completely revises and greatly expands Norman Fassett’s 1940 classic A Manual of Aquatic Plants, yet retains the features that made Fassett’s book so useful. Features include: * coverage of 1139 plant species, 1186 taxa, 295 genera, 109 families * more than 600 pages of illustrations, and illustrations for more than 90% of the taxa * keys for each species include references to corresponding illustrations * habitat information, geographical ranges, and synonomy * a chapter on nuisance aquatic weeds * glossaries of botanical and habitat terms * a full index for each volume Wetland ecologists, botanists, resource managers, public naturalists, and environmentalists concerned with the preservation of wetland areas, which are increasingly threatened, will welcome this clear, workable, and comprehensive guide.