The Whale Years by Gregory O'Brien

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 trouble. improvement redirects, consumes, and pollutes water. It additionally reasons alterations within the kingdom of usual water reservoirs, without delay through 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 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 ebook presents a brand new synthesis of the broadcast examine at the Quaternary of eire. It experiences a few 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 using the newest expertise have enabled major advances in geochronology utilizing speeded 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 frequent. although, 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 publication illuminates the fast-changing dynamics of neighborhood environmental politics in China, an issue purely marginally addressed within the literature.