Clingmans Dome: Highest Mountain in the Great Smokies by Marci Spencer,George Ellison

Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)

Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for larger livelihoods in lots of elements of the globe all give a contribution to a progressively deepening international water main issue. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally explanations alterations within the country of traditional water reservoirs, without delay by way of draining aquifers and ultimately by means of 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 files 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 pictures, l. a. 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 presents a brand new synthesis of the printed examine at the Quaternary of eire. It studies a couple of major advances within the final 3 a long time at the knowing of the development and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and profession files. these utilizing the most recent expertise have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing sped up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically influenced luminescence among others.

Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations

Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is common. despite the fact that, more and more it's been said that the most important difficulties in guiding the chinese language economic climate and society in the direction of sustainability are to be chanced on on the neighborhood point. This e-book illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject matter basically marginally addressed within the literature.