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Modern river management and training practices seem to fail all too often in the light of frequent floods, siltation, erosion, nutrient overload and impaired water quality. There are a lot of reasons to reconsider our approach and take a much broader view of management, including human ecology, farming methods, river dynamics and social factors. This book is about a project developed in rural Hungary in the Tisza river basin of the Great Plain where system theoretical failures and errors in the past determine current events and trends, making it ever more difficult to handle fluctuations of...

Meet Tess, a thirteen-year-old who lands in a pickle in every one of these four related stories. Meet Cookie, the circus camel who spits something fierce; Old Man Dawson, the school vice principal who might be the Angel of Death?; and Heath, the boy across the lane. Set in the Village of Kaslo on the shores of Kootenay Lake, B. C., these stories, suitable for eleven to thirteen-year-old readers, follow the capers of Tess as she problem-solves her way through her predicaments, finding greater self-knowledge as she goes. Tess has no money but does have a business plan to change her lot in life....