River rehabilitation has become a major issue for water authorities and river managers throughout Europe, North America and Australia. Drawing together experiences from many countries, this volume provides comprehensive and integrated coverage of factors affecting river rehabilitation such as policy, planning and strategy, implementation and project appraisal.
River rehabilitation has become a major issue for water authorities and river managers throughout Europe, North America and Australia. Drawing togethe...
Since the late 1980s, when the current tide of environmental concern began to rise, every improvement made by the oil industry has been followed by new demands for further progress. New problems have been placed on top of the old ones; first smog in the inner cities and oil spills on the beaches, then acid rain and forest die back followed by major tank disasters and renewed attention to urban air quality and finally, climatic change. The purpose of this book is to investigate whether the oil industry is able to extend and renew its social legitimacy as it faces its toughest agenda in a...
Since the late 1980s, when the current tide of environmental concern began to rise, every improvement made by the oil industry has been followed by ne...
Landscape Ecology - a rapidly growing science - quantifies the ways ecosystems interact. It establishes links between activities in one region and repercussions in another. Landscape Ecology: A Top-Down Approach serves as a general introduction to this emerging area of study. In this book the authors take a "top down" approach. They believe that context is equally as important as content and that an isolated, dismembered landscape fragment loses biodiversity. In contrast, past and current ecosystem studies have not considered the consequences of outside influences. The authors argue...
Landscape Ecology - a rapidly growing science - quantifies the ways ecosystems interact. It establishes links between activities in one region and rep...
