China's Eco-city Construction (Research Series on the by Jingyuan Li,Tongjin Yang

Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)

Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for greater livelihoods in lots of elements of the globe all give a contribution to a progressively deepening worldwide water predicament. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally motives adjustments within the country of average water reservoirs, at once by means of draining aquifers and in a roundabout way through melting glaciers and the polar ice caps.

Incroyables insectes (Nature) (French Edition)

Du plus petit au plus grand, du plus discret au plus voyant, les exploits des insectes, leurs documents et leurs originalités sont décrits dans ce livre pour tous publics, avec simplicité et humour, mais sans aucune exagération. Oui, ils sont capables de tout ça ! Et pour le prouver, de nombreuses et superbes photographs, los angeles plupart prises sur le terrain, confirmeront aux incrédules que nos amis les insectes sont vraiment INCROYABLES !

Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies (Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science)

This publication offers a brand new synthesis of the broadcast study at the Quaternary of eire. It reports a couple of major advances within the final 3 many years at the knowing of the trend and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and profession documents. these utilizing the newest expertise have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing sped up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically encouraged luminescence among others.

Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations

Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is frequent. even if, more and more it's been said that the foremost difficulties in guiding the chinese language financial system and society in the direction of sustainability are to be came upon on the neighborhood point. This booklet illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject purely marginally addressed within the literature.