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Soil Erosion and Sediment Redistribution in River Catchments
There can be little doubt that issues relating to soils and sediments are moving up the political agenda, and a realization that we need to collectively manage and protect both soil and water resources. In order to manage this delicate interface, attention is being increasingly directed towards holistic land-river management, demanding a greater appreciation of the interaction between soils and sediments. This book reviews the major achievements recently made in soil erosion and sediment redistribution research and management, and identifies future requirements.
Sediment Risk Management and Communication
In dynamic river systems, effective and sustainable risk management of sediments, contaminants and their sources must be carried out on a river basin scale. A diversity of interests and risk perceptions, whether environmental, economical, or personal, as well as the broad variety of uses and functions of river systems can lead to conflicts and disagreements about how and where river systems should be managed. This requires a transparent methodology to assess environmental risks in the river basin, followed by a prioritisation of those sites where measures would yield the highest positive effect for the river basin and where financial resources could be allocated most efficiently. However, ri...
The Graveyard Book
It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
The Charles Shumway Family, 1806-1979
Peter Shumway/Pierre Chamois/Chomway (1635-1695) immigrated from France about 1655. He was in Massachusetts by 1675. Charles Shumway (1806-1898) was born in Oxford, Massachusetts, married Julia Ann Hooker in 1832, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1841 and migrated to Salt Lake Valley in 1847. He also married Louisa Minnerly, Henrietta Bird and Elizabeth Jardine. Descendants lived throughout the United States.
