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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Earl Sherow
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.91009767309034
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Publication Date: 1990-11
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: This interdiciplinary series explores the interplay between resource exploitation and economic, social, and political experiences in the American West.
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Price: $43.95
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Sale: $41.95
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Manufacturer: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Christopher J. Barrow
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 630
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Publication Date: 1999-09-01
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: A comprehensive introduction, by one of the world's leading experts, to a neglected and ever more important form of agricultural irrigation --runoff agriculture.
Runoff agriculture uses surface and subsurface water and enables small farmers as well as commercial agriculturalists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments. Alternative Irrigation introduces the techniques and strategies, as well as the challenges and the potential of this crucial approach, which can contribute so much to reducing land degradation and improving conservation and sustainability.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $60.02
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Hart
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.9164
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Publication Date: 1996-05-23
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Reading Level: 253
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Description: A dramatic environmental saga unfolds in John Hart's compelling story of the fight to save Mono Lake. This ancient inland sea, in the eastern Sierra near Yosemite National Park, is among the oldest in North America. But over the past fifty years, as its feeder streams were steadily drained to supply water to ever-growing, ever-thirsty Los Angeles, the lake's water volume eventually was reduced by half. Mono Lake's bizarre but productive ecosystem began to collapse: salinity greatly increased, nesting and migrating birds were threatened, and fierce alkali dust storms became a common occurrence.
Then, in the mid-1970s, a handful of people, most of them students with minimal financial resources, began a campaign to save the dying lake. They took on not only Los Angeles but the entire state government and a whole way of thinking about water. Their fight seemed doomed in the beginning, but long years of grassroots education and effort finally paid off. In 1994, the California Water Resources Control Board ruled that Los Angeles's use of Mono Lake's waters be restricted. Over time, the lake will return to a healthy condition.
John Hart integrates natural, social, and political history into a story that is a source of hope for anyone concerned about the environment. Storm over Mono demonstrates the important role of science in public policy debates and validates the concept of the public trust, the idea that certain things belong to us all, not metaphorically but in simple legal fact.
Complementing Hart's narrative are 32 stunning color photographs by a dozen leading nature photographers, along with numerous black-and-white photographs, illustrations, and maps.
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Manufacturer: University of California Irrigation Program, University of California, Davis
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Binding: Unknown Binding
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Author: Blaine Hanson
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Publisher: University of California Irrigation Program, University of California, Davis
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Edition: Rev 2000
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Publication Date: 2000
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Reading Level: 127
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Price: $109.00
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Sale: $105.00
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Manufacturer: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Anand Prakash
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Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 628
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Publication Date: 2004-01-06
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Reading Level: 348
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Description: "Water Resource Engineering: Handbook of Essential Methods of Analysis and Design" presents practical methods to solve problems commonly encountered by practicing water resources engineers in day-to-day work in the fields of hydrology, hydraulics, groundwater, hydraulic designs, hydropower, environmental impact evaluation, and remedial investigations. Numerous illustrative examples are provided based on the author's extensive experience in academia and consulting practice throughout the world. Dr. Prakash transforms well-known theoretical equations into easy-to-use solutions, rather than complex theoretical explanations. The concise manner in which this handbook is presented makes it useful for any consulting water resources engineer.
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Price: $38.00
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Sale: $37.99
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Manufacturer: United Nations University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: United Nations University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 333.91
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Publication Date: 2005-09-01
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Reading Level: 520
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Description: Clean water is essential to human survival, yet it is increasingly scarce. Despite pressures on this crucial resource, people often have little or no opportunity to participate in watershed decisions that affect them, particularly when they live along international watercourses. The success of efforts to manage water effectively, efficiently, and equitably will depend, in large part, on providing the public with a voice in watershed management decisions that affect them. This volume examines experiences in public participation in the management of many watercourses around the world, drawing lessons learned and highlighting areas for further development.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $57.98
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.68
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Publication Date: 2007-01-08
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Reading Level: 581
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Description: Designed as a textbook, this volume is an important, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible survey in ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent wetland scholars address the physical environment, geomorphology, biogeochemistry, soils, and hydrology of both freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Careful syntheses review how hydrology and chemistry constrain wetlands plants and animals. In addition, contributors document the strategies employed by plants, animals, and bacteria to cope with stress. Focusing on the ecology of key organisms, each chapter is relevant to wetland regulation and assessment, wetland restoration, how flood pulses control the ecology of most wetland complexes, and how human regulation of flood pulses threatens wetland biotic integrity. Ideal for the classroom, this book is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in the current state of our wetlands.
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Price: $110.95
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Sale: $159.03
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Manufacturer: CRC-Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Bruce E. Hammer
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Publisher: CRC-Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 628.35
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Publication Date: 1989-12-31
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Reading Level: 856
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Description: Both practical and theoretical, this book provides the basic principles of soil chemistry, hydrology, wetland ecology, microbiology, vegetation and wildlife as a sound introduction to this innovative technology to treat toxic wastewaters and sludges. The use of wetlands for acid mine drainage, and metals removal in municipal, urban runoff, and industrial systems is discussed. Case histories are also presented, demonstrating specific types of constructed wetlands and applications to municipal wastewater, home sites, coal and non-coal mining, coal-fired electric power plants, chemical and pulp industry, agriculture, landfill leachate, and urban stormwater. Construction and management guidelines are clearly explained, providing information on applicable policies and regulations, siting and construction, and operations and monitoring of constructed wetlands treatment systems. Recent theoretical and empirical results from operating systems and research facilities, including such new applications as nutrient removal from eutrophic lakes and urban stormwater treatment within highway rights-of-way, are included. This book is an ideal resource for wastewater treatment plants, consulting engineers, federal and state regulators, industrial environmental managers, municipalities, environmental health professionals, and ecologists.
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Price: $99.95
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Sale: $86.49
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Manufacturer: CRC
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Aram J. K. Calhoun::Phillip G. DeMaynadier
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Publisher: CRC
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 577.636
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Publication Date: 2007-08-13
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Synthesizes Decades of Research on Vernal Pools Science Pulling together information from a broad array of sources, Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America is a guide to the issues and solutions surrounding seasonal pools. Drawing on 15 years of experience, the editors have mined published literature, personal communication from professionals working in the field, unpublished reports and data, and other sources to present the latest information and practical application of this knowledge. They synthesize decades of research on vernal pools and pool-dependent biota as a foundation for presenting the necessary tools for conserving these ecosystems. The book introduces vernal pools as a keystone ecosystem in northeastern forests of North America. This landscape approach is the common current flowing throughout the chapters. Section I reviews the physical parameters that demonstrate how vernal pools function differently from other wetlandsystems and where they are found in the landscape. Section II provides an overview of the diversity and natural history of their unique biota, focusing on plants, invertebrates, amphibians, and other pool-associated vertebrates. Finally, Section III synthesizes the best-available science from peer-reviewed and unpublished sources relevant to conserving vernal pools in human-dominated landscapes. The book also highlights the significant role that educators and citizens have in effecting local conservation, and in ensuring a permanent place on the landscape for seasonal wetlands. An impressive cadre of scientists contribute knowledge and expertise on how to conserve vernal pools, its species, and its flora and fauna. Acknowledging the physical and biological connections between upland and aquatic systems, the authors provide a landscape-scale approach to conservation that is equally applicable to all isolated wetlands.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $16.17
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Manufacturer: Princeton University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. Stephen Lansing
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2007-04-09
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: A brilliant study of how ancient the social and technical aspects of water management systems in Bali, inextricably bound with nature and religion, were undermined by the Green Revolution in the 1970s. Recommended.
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