Great Places Washington by John Kruse

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 gradually deepening international water situation. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally explanations adjustments within the kingdom of common water reservoirs, without delay by way of draining aquifers and not directly 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 presents a brand new synthesis of the printed examine at the Quaternary of eire. It studies 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 career files. these making use of the most recent know-how have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing sped up mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically inspired luminescence among others.

Local Environmental Politics in China: Challenges and Innovations

Wisdom and perception in nationwide environmental governance in China is common. in spite of the fact that, more and more it's been stated that the foremost difficulties in guiding the chinese language economic system and society in the direction of sustainability are to be discovered on the neighborhood point. This booklet illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, an issue merely marginally addressed within the literature.