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“philip boon”

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  • River Conservation and Management

    Edited by Philip Boon, Paul Raven ...
    This book is intended for those with an academic, scientific and practical interest in river conservation and management. It provides an overview of how changes in legislation, policies, institutional responsibilities, science, technology, practical techniques and public perception have influenced how rivers have been managed over the past 20 years and the challenges that lie ahead during the next ... Read more

    $114.00 USD

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  • The Boiling River

    Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon

    by Andrés Ruzo ...
    Series series TED Books
    In this exciting adventure mixed with amazing scientific study, a young, exuberant explorer and geoscientist journeys deep into the Amazon—where rivers boil and legends come to life.When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, Ruzo—now a ... Read more

    $10.99 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

  • Goodbye to a River

    A Narrative

    by John Graves ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Leaving It To Beaver

    Co-existence strategies for municipalities and landowners

    by The Association for the Protection of Fur-Bearing Animals, Michael Howie ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • 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

    $49.49 USD

  • Listening to the Savage

    River Notes and Half-Heard Melodies

    by Barbara Hurd ...
    Series Book 24 - Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books
    Barbara Hurd’s Listening to the Savage weaves rich explorations of science, history, mythology, literature, and music. The listening of the book delineates and champions a kind of attentiveness to what is not easily heard and is written in language that is as precise as it is poetic, providing original ways of engagement in the natural world.As in Hurd’s other books, the previously unknown or the ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Trout Tips

    More than 250 fly-fishing tips from the members of Trout Unlimited

    Edited by Kirk Deeter ...
    From the mighty rivers of the Pacific Northwest, to the rolling streams of New England, to the freestone streams of the Appalachians, to the frigid waters of Canada, fly fishing is a sport embraced by anglers from all corners of North America. And now from the members of the highly respected conservation organization Trout Unlimited comes a comprehensive volume of tested tips and tactics for ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Walking on Water

    London's Hidden Rivers Revealed

    by Stephen Myers ...
    London's hidden - or lost - rivers are a source of fascination. This book concentrates on seven North London rivers - the Fleet, the Walbrook, the Tyburn, the Westbourne, Counter's Creek, Stamford Brook and the Black Ditch. The author, a professional water engineer, describes their sources and traces their individual histories, setting out their influence on the development of London and their use ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rivers for Life

    Managing Water For People And Nature

    by Sandra Postel, Brian Richter, The Nature Conservancy ...
    The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viability of a river. In recent years, however, scientific research has underscored the idea that the ecological health of a river system depends not on a minimum amount of water at any one time but on the naturally variable quantity and timing of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Abandoned & Vanished Canals of England

    by Andy Wood ...
    Many thousands of route miles of canal and navigation once used to criss-cross England, serving collieries, iron mines, steelworks, towns and villages. From the start of the twentieth century onwards, many of these canals closed down as a result of lack of trade. Many of the lost canals are in the Midlands, the heartland of Britain's canal network, but they include the exotically named Tamar ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Little Rivers and Waterway Tales

    A Carolinian's Eastern Streams

    by Bland Simpson ...
    Bland Simpson regales us with new tales of coastal North Carolina’s “water-loving land,” revealing how its creeks, streams, and rivers shape the region’s geography as well as its culture. Drawing on deep family ties and coastal travels, Simpson and wife and collaborator Ann Cary Simpson tell the stories of those who have lived and worked in this country, chronicling both a distinct environment and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD