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  • The End of the River

    Dams, Drought and Déjà Vu on the Rio São Francisco

    by Brian Harvey ...
    "[Harvey] may have created a new literary genre: science travel writing . . . travelogue, autobiography, history, and even fantasy romp alongside the biology" ( Quill & Quire).When biologist Brian Harvey saw a thousand fish blundering into a Brazilian dam, he asked the obvious: What's going to happen to them? The End of the River is the story of his long search for an answer.Harvey takes readers ... Read more

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  • From a Red Canoe

    Three Seasons of Small Adventures

    by James Chute ...
    This is the log of four dozen canoe trips on rivers in Maine in 2022. The author took photographs and wrote short texts describing where he went and what he saw. ... Read more

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  • Intermittence des cours d’eau

    Quelles pratiques de gestion ?

    Series series Guide pratique
    Plus de la moitié du réseau hydrographique mondial est concerné par la cessation de l’écoulement ou l’assèchement complet du lit des cours d’eau. En France hexagonale, les dernières modélisations sur le réseau hydrologique théorique suggèrent 20 à 40 % de linéaire intermittent.Essentiels au bon fonctionnement des réseaux — recharge des nappes, transport des sédiments, connectivité entre habitats ... Read more

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  • Ripisylves et forêts alluviales

    Connaissances et gestion en contexte de changements globaux

    Series series Savoir faire
    Les ripisylves et les forêts alluviales correspondent à la végétation arborescente qui se développe au bord des fleuves et des rivières. Avec le changement climatique, l’urbanisation croissante, l’agriculture intensive, les espèces exotiques envahissantes, l’endiguement et la chenalisation des cours d’eau, ces forêts sont souvent dégradées ou ont disparu. Or, elles assurent des fonctions socio ... Read more

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  • Canal Boat Lives

    by Gill Shaw ...
    Britain’s canals were largely built during the Industrial Revolution to move goods around the country. In time, this network linked the major cities, taking the narrowboats and their cargoes into the heart of urban areas. Today, the canals have been largely converted to leisure use but growing numbers of people are also turning to canals as places to live. Today’s increasingly expensive and dense ... Read more

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  • Exploring the Big Woods

    A Guide to the Last Great Forest of the Arkansas Delta

    Exploring the Big Woods: A Guide to the Last Great Forest of Eastern Arkansas is both a natural history and a guide to one of the last remnants of Mississippi bottomland forest, an ecosystem that once stretched from southern Illinois to the Gulf Coast.Crossed by the White River and its tributaries, which periodically flood and release nutrients, the Big Woods is one of the few places in the ... Read more

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  • Waterfalls of Nova Scotia

    A Guide

    An Atlantic BestsellerNova Scotia is blessed with numerous must-see waterfalls, and this volume from self-described “waterfall addict” Benoit Lalonde brings together 100 of the province’s best.Conveniently categorized by the government of Nova Scotia scenic route system, this rich compendium includes famous waterfalls such as Garden of Eden Fall, Wentworth Falls, Cuties Hollow, Annandale Falls and ... Read more

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  • Troubled Tributaries

    Alberta Anglers, Fish Fights, and the Race to Save Mountain Coldwater Streams, 1900 - 1930

    Anglers knee-deep in Alberta's mountain streams after the First World War understood that there was something wrong. Coal mining, forestry, and irrigation were industrializing landscapes. Roads and railways brought unprecedented numbers of people to remote fishing grounds. Once home to abundant runs of cutthroat, mountain whitefish, and bull trout, the Bow, Highwood, and Oldman Rivers, and their ... Read more

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  • Unlocking the Secrets of Rivers, Lakes, Oceans and Trees

    by Hseham Ttud ...
    In this book, detailed information has been given about our oceans, rivers, and lakes, and a brief description of life-giving trees has been given. After reading this book and understanding the role these natural resources play in our lives, we may understand their importance. In Mahatma Buddha’s words, "The trees are magical beings in this world. They provide shade to all, even to those who come ... Read more

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  • Mill Town

    La resa dei conti

    Translated by Umberto Manuini ...
    Series series This Land
    Ci troviamo a Mexico, in Maine, una piccola città che da oltre un secolo si sostiene grazie all’industria cartiera locale, la quale dà lavoro a quasi tutta la comunità, comprese tre generazioni di Arsenault. A distanza di anni, ormai trasferitasi altrove, l’autrice realizza che un’infanzia all’insegna della stabilità economica ha portato con sé un caro prezzo: la distruzione dell’ambiente ... Read more

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  • Confluence

    Navigating the Personal & Political on Rivers of the New West

    by Zak Podmore ...
    **"Podmore's essays resemble Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau with an extra dose of social, racial and political analysis."—ARIZONA DAILY SUNIn the wake of his river–running mother's death,** Zak Podmore explores the healing power of wild places through a lens of grief and regeneration. Visceral, first–person narratives include a canoe crossing of the Colorado River delta during a rare ... Read more

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  • Wild Waterways

    A Celebration of Life on an Irish River

    In our modern, distracted world it is easy to miss the kaleidoscope of life that exists on our doorsteps.Stretching nearly thirty kilometres from the Wicklow Mountains to the Grand Canal Dock, the River Dodder offers a serene escape into nature in our capital city. In Wild Waterways, Robert O’Leary showcases the river’s rich biodiversity through stunning photography and informative text in Irish ... Read more

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  • Troubling the Water

    A Dying Lake and a Vanishing World in Cambodia

    by Abby Seiff ...
    In this intimate account of one of the world’s most productive inland fisheries, Troubling the Water explores how the rapid destruction of a single lake in Cambodia is upending the lives of millions. The abundance of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake helped grow the country for millenia and gave rise to the Kingdom of Angkor. Fed by the rich, mud-colored waters of the powerful Mekong River, the lake owes ... Read more

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  • Goodly Barrow 

    A Voyage on an Irish River

    Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland's second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O'Sullivan's riverine narrative embraces legend and song, literature and anecdote, viewing Irish history through the prism of the waterway: from the early tribal kingdoms of the Celts, to the Vikings and Normans who made ... Read more

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  • Just One Rain Away

    The Ethnography of River-City Flood Control

    Not long ago it seemed flood control experts were close to mastering the unruly flows funnelling toward Hudson Bay and the Prairie city of Winnipeg. But as more intense and out-of-synch flood events occur, wary cities like Winnipeg continue to depend on systems and specifications that will soon be out of date. Rivers have impulses that defy many of the basic human assumptions underpinning ... Read more

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  • Paddleways of Mississippi

    Rivers and People of the Magnolia State

    Chosen as Mississippi's 2025 Great Read for Adults by the Mississippi Center for the BookMississippi rivers and creeks have shaped every aspect of the state’s geology, ecology, economy, settlement, and politics. Mississippi's paddleways—its rivers, rills, creeks, and streams—are its arteries, its lifeblood, and the connective tissues that tie its stories and histories together and flood them with ... Read more

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  • A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

    A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. More importantly, it offers specific strategies and suggestions for managers to use in establishing new conservation initiatives or ... Read more

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  • Tales of a River Rat

    Adventures Along the Wild Mississippi

    by Kenny Salwey ...
    In Tales of a River Rat, famed storyteller and self-described hermit Kenny Salwey informs and entertains readers as he weaves his life story on the Mississippi River. Salwey knows the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Here he shares his love of and knowledge about the mighty river in an accessible manner sure to appeal to all ages. ... Read more

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  • Witness to Water

    One Photographer's Mission to Defend the Colorado River

    A breathtaking journey down the lifeblood of the American WestFrom the crystalline headwaters of the Rocky Mountains to its shocking demise in a foamy, polluted pit in the Sonoran Desert, the Colorado River’s story is one of both epic beauty and profound loss.In this deeply personal and visually stunning narrative, acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Pete McBride sets out to document the ... Read more

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  • Meandering

    Notes of a Mississippi Riverlorian

    Meandering is a combination of journeys Mike has taken in the car, on a variety of boats, on a bike and on foot to discover the variations and stories of the Mississippi. As the backbone of the continent, draining thirty-one states and two provinces between the Rockies and the Appalachians, the Mississippi collects both the waters and the stories of North America. Now as a paddlewheel Riverlorian, ... Read more

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  • Contribuições Da Educação Ambiental Crítica Para A Construção Da Sustentabilidade

    A apropriação da água historicamente tem servido aos interesses das elites agroindustriais para a expansão de um modelo de desenvolvimento que faz o uso intensivo e privado dos recursos naturais. As grandes obras, como é o caso da transposição do Rio São Francisco, serve para garantir, com investimentos públicos, a água para a produção do agronegócio, das termelétricas e siderúrgicas instaladas no ... Read more

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  • The Snake River

    Window To The West

    by Tim Palmer ...
    Tim Palmer weaves natural history into a comprehensive account of the complex problems that plague natural resource management throughout the West, as well as the practical solutions that are available. ... Read more

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  • Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River

    Nature and Power in the People's Republic of China

    Series series Shearwater
    China’s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse might be charted with dams. Every river in the country has been tapped to power exploding cities and factories—every river but one. Running through one of the richest natural areas in the world, the Nujiang’s raging waters were on the verge of being dammed when a 2004 government moratorium halted construction. Might the Chinese dragon bow to the "Angry ... Read more

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  • The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal

    by Julian Souter ...
    The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal was completed in 1772 and links the Trent & Mersey Canal at Great Haywood in Staffordshire with the River Severn at Stourport in Worcestershire. Covering 46 miles, it has forty-three locks and today is frequented by leisure craft and walkers along its towpath. Once one of the major routes of the canal age, in its heyday it would have been thronged with ... Read more

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