State, Society and the Environment in South Asia: 3 (NIAS by Stig Toft Madsen

Water and Development: 1 (Independent Evaluation Group Studies)

Improvement styles, expanding inhabitants strain, and the call for for higher livelihoods in lots of elements of the globe all give a contribution to a gradually deepening worldwide water problem. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally reasons alterations within the country of typical water reservoirs, at once 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, 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 e-book offers a brand new synthesis of the broadcast study at the Quaternary of eire. It studies a couple of major advances within the final 3 a long time at the figuring out of the trend and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and career files. these applying the newest expertise have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing speeded 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. in spite of the fact that, more and more it's been stated that the main difficulties in guiding the chinese language financial system and society in the direction of sustainability are to be stumbled on on the neighborhood point. This booklet illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, a subject matter basically marginally addressed within the literature.