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This practical manual of freshwater ecology and conservation provides a state-of-the-art review of the approaches and techniques used to measure, monitor, and conserve freshwater ecosystems. It offers a single, comprehensive, and accessible synthesis of the vast amount of literature for freshwater ecology and conservation that is currently dispersed in manuals, toolkits, journals, handbooks, 'grey' literature, and websites. Successful conservation outcomes are ultimately built on a sound ecological framework in which every species must be assessed and understood at the individual, community, catchment and landscape level of interaction. For example, freshwater ecologists need to understand hydrochemical storages and fluxes, the physical systems influencing freshwaters at the catchment and landscape scale, and the spatial and temporal processes that maintain species assemblages and their dynamics. A thorough understanding of all these varied processes, and the techniques for studying them, is essential for the effective conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems.
In this book the traveler is inspired to be adventurous when dealing with foreign toilets and to understand the cultural lessons learned from using a foreign bathroom.
With the rapid destabilization, escalation and convergence of various environmental crises, global environmental politics is facing extreme turbulence. Tracing the causes, consequences and dangers of planetary turbulence, this essential book identifies the emerging opportunities to improve governance in environmental politics and transition the world order toward greater equity, justice and sustainability.
Over the last two decades environmental hydraulics as an academic discipline has expanded considerably, caused by growing concerns over water environmental issues associated with pollution and water balance problems on regional and global scale. These issues require a thorough understanding of processes related to environmental flows and transport
This ia a synopsis and review of the major rivers of the world.
Presents a wide variety of both the physical and social processes which affect the environment. Divided into three sections beginning with the existing frameworks for examining people/environment relationships. The second part covers global issues, including a chapter on the environmental and cultural changes of the last 2-3 million years. Also discusses climatic change, deforestation, marine pollution as well as current and future patterns of energy production and consumption. Concludes with local environmental impacts of resource use and misuse such as industry and fossil fuel energy consumption, wetland destruction, eutrophication, desertification and more.