Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world. 
From Wetlands International comes Water Lands , a beautifully illustrated book about this life-giving, global ecosystem. 
From the peat bogs of Ireland to the bayous of Louisiana; from the flooded forests of Cambodia to the permafrost of Siberia; from the mangroves of the Ganges Delta to the ‘everlasting swamps’ of the Nile; and from the marshes of the Brazilian Pantanal to the boggy upland pastures of Tibet, wetlands are in-between and ever-changing worlds. Sometimes wet and sometimes dry, sometimes land and sometimes water, sometimes saline and sometimes fresh; they change character with the seasons, or may lie dormant for decades before bursting into life. 
Through this highly accessible book, the authors tell intriguing and untold stories of how people interact with wetlands around the world, from the mountains to the sea. They emphasise how wetland communities have shaped and nurtured natural resources over the centuries – and how vital this knowledge and practices are in shaping future plans for managing land and water. They assert a positive narrative for wetlands and their role as climate buffers and in preventing and reducing droughts, floods and human conflicts over water. Water Lands brings together a world of experience and presents a new vision as well as real-life examples, to inspire and influence actions to revive wetlands. 
Wetlands International is the global not-for-profit organisation dedicated to safeguarding and restoring wetlands for people and nature. Their vision is a world where wetlands are treasured and nurtured for their beauty, the life they support and the resources they provide. With 20 offices around the world, Wetlands International has a strong global presence and a wealth of experience.

Water Lands

FRED PEARCE

Jane Madgwick

Reference

William Collins

Dammed, The:Rivers, Dams and the Coming World Water Crisis

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

This study explores the people and the politics behind the power of water, one of the key issues for the world in the coming decades. The author examines the squabbling that is already breaking out over the fate of great international rivers, such as the Nile and the Ganges. As the best dam sites are used up, underground water stores are plundered and global warming empties the reservoirs. Pearce looks at the huge new aqueducts that will criss-cross the continents and discusses the prospect of them being the cause of future wars.

The Dammed

Business & Money

Economics

Bodley Head

God's Spirit in Work and Word

Religion & Spirituality

Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association Ltd

The Big Green Book

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Kingfisher Books

Nothing seems more abundant than water. In fact, the world is confronting a global water shortage that could make the oil crisis trivial by comparison. To put the problem in perspective, it takes a staggering 11,000 litres of water to feed the cow it takes to make one McDonald`s quarter pounder. As Fred Pearce warns, "The planet is running out of water." Many of the world`s most powerful rivers have been so devastated by consumption and irrigation drain-off that they no longer reach the sea. Two-thirds of all the world`s supply of water is used to irrigate crops. It takes enough water to fill one hundred bathtubs to irrigate the cotton fields required to make one t-shirt. When the Rivers Run Dry is a journey into the world water crisis. Internationally acclaimed environmental writer and water authority Pearce traverses the globe in this eye-opening portrait of what is fast becoming the planet`s most serious potential catastrophe. From Canada and Texas to India and Palestine, Pearce examines in fascinating and compelling detail how galloping, un-regulated consumption, economic greed and political indifference are putting the world`s water systems at grave risk. As important, the implications of a shortage will have--in fact, already have had--profound and serious consequences on the fragile international political situation. Though the warning signs are dire, Pearce passionately contends that they point to the solutions that will avert the crisis and put the world on the path of sustained and renewable consumption. It`s a challenge we cannot afford to ignore.

When the Rivers Run Dry: Journeys Into the Heart of the World's Water Crisis

Key Porter Books

Since the last ice age, almost thirteen thousand years ago, humans have prospered in what has been a relatively stable, predictable climate. But as Fred Pearce examines in The Last Generation—a compelling, fascinating, passionate but alarming portrait of a planet in crisis—our generation may very well be the last to be so blessed. For the most part, the facts of climate change have become all too familiar to us: a rise in average temperatures around the globe, the melting of arctic ice, soaring levels of carbon dioxide and methane, record-breaking summer heat, predictions of unseasonably cold winters, an increase in the number and violence of tsunamis and hurricanes, and on and on and on. What does it all mean? Does all the bad news add up to something or are we just scaring ourselves unnecessarily? A head-in-the-sand response my be to assume that Mother Nature—in her infinite patience and wisdom—eventually will gently turn back the hands of the clock and return the planet to its proper balance. All will be well. Don’t bet on it, warns Pearce. The crisis confronting the planet is of a very different nature than anything we have ever confronted. Climate change from now on will not be gradual, he maintains: nature doesn’t do gradual change. There is precedent for catastrophic reversals of fortune: records prove that in the past much of the world’s climate has switched from Arctic to tropical in as few as three to five years. It can happen again. So forget what the environmentalists have told you about nature being fragile, a helpless victim of human excess. The truth is the opposite. She is a wild and resourceful beast given to fits of rage. And now that we are provoking her beyond her endurance, she is starting to seek her revenge.

The Last Generation : How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change

Earth Sciences

Earth Then and Now

"Earth Then and Now" records the dramatic way in which our planet has changed in just the past one hundred years. It draws on the combined photographic archives of print, picture, and space agencies to create a powerful collection of images. Each pair of photographs has been selected to tell a compelling story - of a melting glacier, an expanding desert, an ever-rising cityscape or a natural disaster - presenting a stark visual comparison. On one page, we are shown a part of the world as it was, five, ten, twenty, fifty or even more than one hundred years ago. On the facing page, we have the same place as it looks today. Concise captions explain the facts and then leave us to draw our own conclusions about the "Earth Then and Now" and about the Earth to come.

Octopus Publishing Group

Earth Then & Now (PB)

Mitchell Beazley

At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should nuclear play in our future? Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Windscale. Chernobyl. Fukushima. These names no longer denote a place, but a disaster. In a few syllables, they evoke the heights of human ingenuity clashing with the worst of human error. Individually, each place has its own sobering story to tell; together, they form a timeline of the nuclear age. In this compelling and deeply researched book, Fred Pearce investigates the greatest nuclear incidents and accidents of the past 80 years by visiting their now iconic landscapes. He tours former power stations and abandoned testing sites in the company of scientists and engineers, and in previously toxic wastelands, where radioactive wolves now stalk the streets and genetically-malformed flora blooms, he witnesses the surprising resilience of nature. As well as the physical legacy, Pearce also considers the psychological impact of these disasters. Amid rumours of state cover-ups, corporate deception, and hushed-up medical epidemics, Pearce weighs the evidence on either side of the argument to disentangle the facts from the fear.

Fallout

Granta

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