Land Use Change: Science, Policy and Management by Richard J. Aspinall,Michael J. Hill

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 obstacle. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally reasons alterations within the kingdom of normal water reservoirs, without delay by means of draining aquifers and in some way by way 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, 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 examine at the Quaternary of eire. It stories a few major advances within the final 3 a long time at the knowing of the trend and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and profession documents. these applying the most recent 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 common. besides the fact that, more and more it's been said that the most important difficulties in guiding the chinese language economic system and society in the direction of sustainability are to be came upon on the neighborhood point. This e-book illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, an issue purely marginally addressed within the literature.