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  • Rochdale Canal

    de John Evans ...
    Twenty years have passed since the Rochdale Canal reopened following a restoration scheme that faced almost impossible hurdles. One of three commercial waterways across the Pennines, the canal links the industrial North West and North East, flowing through mill towns, beneath dramatic bridges and traverses spectacular hilly scenery. Its ninety-one locks present a strenuous challenge for boaters, ... Leer más

    $231 MXN

  • Wyrley & Essington Canal Through Time

    de Ray Shill ...
    Series series Through Time
    The Wyrley & Essington Canal began as an independent waterway, carrying coal from Essington and Wyrley Bank to Wolverhampton. It was a popular route, in high competition with the mines at Bilston, Cosely and Tipton, which were served by Birmingham Canal Navigations. In 1792 and 1794 the canal was extended, creating routes to a number of new areas - five locks were used for a branch canal to ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • West Midland Canals Through Time

    Severn, Avon & Birmingham

    de Ray Shill ...
    Series series Through Time
    This book is a study of waterways infrastructure and investigates through images and maps how the present midland network of canal and river navigations was put together. It is a complex history where some working waterways are approaching 250 years of existence, but where others span the distance of time with construction and modification extending right up to the present day. In some instances ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • The Kennet and Avon Canal From Old Photographs

    Series series From Old Photographs
    A safe route from London to Bristol was long a dream of traders and ship owners. With a hazardous route via the English Channel an inland alternative was first proposed in 1788. After a couple of false starts construction began in 1794. Fourteen years later the Kennet & Avon Canal was opened, with the last section to open being the spectacular series of locks at Devizes. Attempts to close the ... Leer más

    $195 MXN

  • The Severn Bore

    An Illustrated Guide

    de Chris Witts ...
    At numerous times throughout the year, thousands of people gather along the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire to see one of the wonders of the natural world. A combination of geography and high tides coincide to create the Severn Bore, a rare phenomenon and one of only about sixty river bores in the world. Due to the huge difference in tides, and the funnelling effect of the ever ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • The Story of the Thames

    500,000 Years in the Life of a River. The longest river in England, the Thames, has witnessed the entire history of a country and its capital. The Story of the Thames looks at history from the river’s perspective, investigating how the life of the nation has affected the river and, in turn, how the river has been viewed by those who live along its length. In doing so it spans 500,000 years (longer ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • The Windrush Valley

    de Mark Child ...
    The Windrush is the largest of the Cotswold rivers. Running for about forty miles through parts of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, it is also the longest. It is the waterway that turned Bourton-on-the-Water into an inland resort, and it fl ows adjacent to the major tourist venue of Burford. It runs alongside historic Witney, and close to the picturesque Slaughters. This book begins with a ... Leer más

    $231 MXN

  • Understanding Nature Vol. 2: Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids

    Understanding Nature, #2

    de Rick McKeon ...
    Series Libro 2 - Understanding Nature
    This is the second volume in the Understanding Nature series. My purpose for writing this volume is to encourage young people to get outdoors and enjoy the natural world. The benefits are many - exercise and fresh air, sparking curiosity and stimulating the imagination, developing a healthy attitude toward nature and other people, and just plain having FUN! Kids need to get out and be kids in a ... Leer más

    $68 MXN

  • ¿Escasez de agua?

    Retos para la gestión de la cuenca del río Ica

    Seis artículos que abordan diferentes aspectos y problemáticas de la gestión del agua superficial y subterránea de la cuenca del río Ica. Actualmente, el Perú se encuentra ante una crisis de gobernabilidad en la gestión del agua, pues la demanda de este recurso ha aumentado, pero la oferta sigue siendo la misma o ha disminuido por la contaminación o el impacto del cambio climático en las cuencas. ... Leer más

    $229 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Danube

    A Cultural History

    Series Libro 7 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany's Black Forest, it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea through a vast delta whose silt-filled channels spread across eastern Romania. From earliest times the river has provided a route from Europe to Asia that was ... Leer más

    $170 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Water Governance, Policy and Knowledge Transfer

    International Studies on Contextual Water Management

    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    In an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners, new technologies and communication means have made the transfer of policies from one country or region to another progressively more prevalent. There has been a lot of attention in the field of public administration paid to policy transfer and institutional transplantation. This book aims to create a better understanding of such ... Leer más

    $1,252 MXN

  • Taming the Flood

    Rivers, Wetlands and the Centuries-Old Battle Against Flooding

    ‘Exquisitely written’ Sunday TimesBeautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future generations.In recent years the Somerset Levels suffered from the worst flooding in over twenty years ... Leer más

    $192 MXN

  • River Rejuvenation and River Rights

    Evolving Debates in India

    Edición de Philippe Cullet, Ruchi Shree ...
    This book draws on interdisciplinary research deploying ‘river rights’ and ‘water justice’ as conceptual frameworks to engage with laws and politics around waterbodies. It underlines the simultaneity of micro and macro aspects to make sense of the complexities around ‘river rejuvenation’ in India.This book engages with different ideas of rejuvenation, illuminating what goes under the name of ... Leer más

    $1,114 MXN

  • Searching Out the Headwaters

    Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy

    To the uninitiated, water policy seems a complicated, hypertechnical, and incomprehensible subject: a tangle of engineering jargon and legalese surrounding a complex, delicate, and interrelated structure. Decisions concerning the public's waters involve scant public participation, and in such a context, reform seems risky at best.Searching Out the Headwaters addresses that precarious situation by ... Leer más

    $605 MXN

  • River Tamar Through the Year

    de Derek Tait ...
    Series series Through the Year
    Flowing between Devon and Cornwall, the beauty of the River Tamar is ever changing. Every turn brings something new; deer, otters, seals, stoats and, in the past, even the occasional dolphin. Rich with trees, flowers and insects, there is something wonderful to be found with every season. Spring brings new growth and colour with bluebells and daffodils. Wildlife flourishes and bees and butterflies ... Leer más

    $215 MXN

  • Freshwater

    Environmental Issues, Global Perspectives

    Freshwater is our planet’s most precious resource, and also the least conserved. Freshwater makes up only 3 percent of the total water on the planet, and yet the majority (1.9 percent) is held in a frozen state in glaciers, icebergs, and polar ice fields. This leaves approximately one-half of 1 percent of the total volume of water on the planet as freshwater available in liquid form.This book ... Leer más

    $1,183 MXN

  • 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 ... Leer más

    $1,080 MXN

  • Restoring Streams in Cities

    A Guide for Planners, Policymakers, and Citizens

    de Ann L. Riley ...
    Conventional engineering solutions to problems of flooding and erosion are extremely destructive to natural environments. Restoring Streams in Cities presents viable alternatives to traditional practices that can be used both to repair existing ecological damage and to prevent such damage from happening.Ann L. Riley describes an interdisciplinary approach to stream management that does not attempt ... Leer más

    $864 MXN

  • 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 ... Leer más

    $556 MXN

  • Histoire d'un ruisseau

    Series series Écrire la nature
    L'histoire d'un ruisseau, même de celui qui naît et se perd dans la mousse, est l'histoire de l'infini. ... Leer más

    $95 MXN

  • River Life and the Upspring of Nature

    de Naveeda Khan ...
    In River Life and the Upspring of Nature Naveeda Khan examines the relationship between nature and culture through the study of the everyday existence of chauras, the people who live on the chars (sandbars) within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh. Nature is a primary force at play within this existence as chauras live itinerantly and in flux with the ever-changing river flows; where land is here ... Leer más

    $333 MXN

  • Borne by the River

    Canoeing the Delaware from Headwaters to Home

    de Rick Van Noy ...
    After a near-fatal stroke and a separation, amidst a global pandemic, Rick Van Noy decided to go for a paddle. In Borne by the River, he charts the story of discovery, and healing that came from this solo canoe journey. Paddling two hundred miles on the Delaware River to his boyhood home just upriver from Trenton, New Jersey, Van Noy contemplates his fate and life, as well as the simple joy of ... Leer más

    $212 MXN

  • Mining, Materials, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    2030 and Beyond

    Mining, Materials, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 2030 and Beyond provides a systematic assessment of how the mining and materials sector contributes to the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) set forth by the United Nations in 2015. While the target date of 2030 is considered a benchmark for reaching these goals, the book looks beyond this date and considers a longer-term ... Leer más

    $1,183 MXN

  • River

    A Hudson Memoir

    de Leslie Day ...
    Leslie Day's life changed forever when, in 1975, she moved to a tiny houseboat on the Hudson River at the 79th Street Boat Basin—a new home umbilically tied to Manhattan's Upper West Side. In her heartfelt memoir, River, Day reveals how she fell in love with—and married—her neighbor, a biology professor at Brooklyn College, became a naturalist, educator, and author, and raised her son on the boat. ... Leer más

    $195 MXN