Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Understanding Hydrological Processes in an Ungauged Catchment in sub-Saharan Africa

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    by Marloes Mul ...
    Ungauged catchments can be found in many parts of the world, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. Information collected in a gauged catchment and its regionalisation to ungauged areas is crucial for water resources assessment. Especially farmers in semi-arid zones are in need of such information. Inter and Intra-seasonal rainfall variability is large in these areas, and farmers depend more and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Volta River Basin

    Water for Food, Economic Growth and Environment

    Series series Earthscan Series on Major River Basins of the World
    The Volta River Basin (VRB) is an important transboundary basin in West Africa that covers approximately 410,000 square kilometres across six countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo. Its natural resources sustain the livelihoods of its population and contribute to economic development. This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review and assessment of the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Cadillac Desert

    The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

    **“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Reisner anticipated this moment. He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage — that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Thames

    The Biography

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Organic Machine

    The Remaking of the Columbia River

    by Richard White ...
    Series series Hill and Wang Critical Issues
    The Hill and Wang Critical Issues Series: concise, affordable works on pivotal topics in American history, society, and politics.In this pioneering study, White explores the relationship between the natural history of the Columbia River and the human history of the Pacific Northwest for both whites and Native Americans. He concentrates on what brings humans and the river together: not only the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rafting the River of No Return Wilderness - The Middle Fork of the Salmon River

    by Thomas Walsh ...
    Exciting fun and humorous family adventure vacation story. A wild and challenging raft trip my children and I took through the River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. From planning for the trip travel by small plane fascinating river guides and mixed bag of clients to running wild white-water rapids spills and thrills on the river wildlife encounters camping ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of the River

    Dams, Drought and Déjà Vu on the Rio São Francisco

    by Brian Harvey ...
    "[Harvey] may have created a new literary genre: science travel writing . . . travelogue, autobiography, history, and even fantasy romp alongside the biology" ( Quill & Quire).When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What's going to happen to them? The End of the River is the story of his long search for an answer.Harvey takes readers ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When the Rivers Run Dry

    Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century

    by Fred Pearce ...
    In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Birmingham Canal Navigations Through Time

    by R. H. Davies ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Birmingham canals truly got underway following an advertisement in Birmingham's Aris's Gazette of 26 January 1767. The plan was to take a waterway from Wolverhampton to Birmingham with a branch to Lord Dudley's coal mines near Wednesbury, and this canal network continued to grow extensively until the 1860s. With the decline in the demand for coal after the Second World War, the BCN lost sixty ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Dirty, Sacred Rivers

    Confronting South Asia's Water Crisis

    by Cheryl Colopy ...
    Dirty, Sacred Rivers explores South Asia's increasingly urgent water crisis, taking readers on a journey through North India, Nepal and Bangladesh, from the Himalaya to the Bay of Bengal. The book shows how rivers, traditionally revered by the people of the Indian subcontinent, have in recent decades deteriorated dramatically due to economic progress and gross mismanagement. Dams and ill-advised ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Leaving It To Beaver

    Co-existence strategies for municipalities and landowners

    Conflict with nature will always occur, this is true. But by acknowledging the constant growth of biological and ecological sciences, we can mitigate – and at times entirely prevent – such conflicts.The reason The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals (APFA) has undertaken the Living With Wildlife campaign is simple: to fill a need.Beavers are a keystone species and are responsible ... Read more

    Free

  • Where the River Flows

    Scientific Reflections on Earth's Waterways

    The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work? Why do rivers run where they do? Where do their waters actually come from? How can the same river flood one year and then dry up the next? Where the River Flows takes you on a majestic journey along the planet's ... Read more

    Was $32.39 USD Now $17.29 USD