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  • Sustainable Land Management in Asia

    Introducing the Landscape Approach

    The Asian Development Bank has introduced significant changes in the way farmers and other stakeholders view and benefit from evolving approaches to sustainable land management (SLM) practices. Firmly embedded in SLM are the management and climate resilience of natural resources, which can be enhanced and scaled up by adopting a "landscape approach." This publication sets out how the landscape ... Leer más

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  • Community Innovations in Sustainable Land Management

    Lessons from the field in Africa

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management
    It is increasingly recognized that land can be managed most sustainably through involving local communities. This book highlights the potential of a new methodology of uncovering and stimulating community initiatives in sustainable land management in Africa.Analyses of four contrasting African countries (Ghana, Morocco, South Africa and Uganda) show that as communities directly face the challenges ... Leer más

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  • Water Harvesting in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edición de William Critchley, John Gowing ...
    Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is constrained by highly variable rainfall, frequent drought and low water productivity. There is an urgent need, heightened by climate change, for appropriate technologies to address this problem through managing and increasing the quantity of water on farmers’ fields – water harvesting. This book defines water harvesting as a set of approaches which occupy an ... Leer más

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  • Where the Water Goes

    Life and Death Along the Colorado River

    de David Owen ...
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  • Water is Life: Different Sources of Water and Ways to Conserve Them (For Early Science Learners)

    Nature Book for Kids - Earth Sciences

    Series series Children's Water Books
    Without water, forests will become deserts, and our marine friends will not have any home. Our bodies are also composed of lots of water so we will die without it too. It's time for the little ones to understand where water comes from so that he/she will grow an awareness to protect water sources. This book is a wonderful introduction to the subject. Buy a copy now! ... Leer más

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  • Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This textbook focuses specifically on the combined topics of irrigation and drainage engineering. It emphasizes both basic concepts and practical applications of the latest technologies available. The design of irrigation, pumping, and drainage systems using Excel and Visual Basic for Applications programs are explained for both graduate and undergraduate students and practicing engineers. The ... Leer más

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  • Earthmasters

    The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

    This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be avoided?” has been superseded by a more frightening one, “what can be done to prevent the devastation of ... Leer más

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  • Water Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
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  • How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

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  • Water and Land Security in Drylands

    Response to Climate Change

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Our Way Out

    Principles for a Post-apocalyptic World

    Global warming, energy shortages, overpopulation — it's no wonder that as a society, we're in an apocalyptic mood. Out of an endless stream of gloomy prognoses for humanity's future, we have emerged with little inspiration and few concrete ideas for change. Our Way Out is the first time that our most urgent global challenges have been treated as aspects of a single, larger crisis — and the first ... Leer más

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