Wetlands and people - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wetlands and people write by International Water Management Institute (IWMI). This book was released on 2014-07-01. Wetlands and people available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wetlands in a Dry Land
Wetlands in a Dry Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wetlands in a Dry Land write by Emily O'Gorman. This book was released on 2021-07-13. Wetlands in a Dry Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed nearly 87 percent of the world’s wetlands over the past three centuries. Unintended consequences include biodiversity loss, poor water quality, and the erosion of cultural sites, and only in the past few decades have wetlands been widely recognized as worth preserving. Emily O’Gorman asks, What has counted as a wetland, for whom, and with what consequences? Using the Murray-Darling Basin—a massive river system in eastern Australia that includes over 30,000 wetland areas—as a case study and drawing on archival research and original interviews, O’Gorman examines how people and animals have shaped wetlands from the late nineteenth century to today. She illuminates deeper dynamics by relating how Aboriginal peoples acted then and now as custodians of the landscape, despite the policies of the Australian government; how the movements of water birds affected farmers; and how mosquitoes have defied efforts to fully understand, let alone control, them. Situating the region’s history within global environmental humanities conversations, O’Gorman argues that we need to understand wetlands as socioecological landscapes in order to create new kinds of relationships with and futures for these places.
Wetlands and Human Health
Wetlands and Human Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wetlands and Human Health write by C Max Finlayson. This book was released on 2015-08-03. Wetlands and Human Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book addresses the interactions between wetlands and human health and well-being. A key feature is the linking of ecology-health and the targeting of practitioners and researchers. The environmental health problems of the 21st Century cannot be addressed by the traditional tools of ecologists or epidemiologists working in their respective disciplinary silos; this is clear from the emergence and re-emergence of public health and human well-being problems such as cholera pandemics, mosquito borne disease, and episodic events and disasters (e.g. hurricanes). To tackle these problems requires genuine cross-disciplinary collaboration; a key finding of the recently concluded Millennium Ecosystem Assessment when looking at human well-being and ecosystem health. This book brings the disciplines of ecology and health sciences closer to such a synthesis for researchers, teachers and policy makers interested in or needing information to manage wetlands and human health and well-being issues.
Water Lands: A vision for the world’s wetlands and their people
Water Lands: A vision for the world’s wetlands and their people - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Water Lands: A vision for the world’s wetlands and their people write by Fred Pearce. This book was released on 2020-02-10. Water Lands: A vision for the world’s wetlands and their people available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Where water meets land, life abounds. This is the story of the nature and people of the wetlands of the world.
Canadian Wetlands
Canadian Wetlands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canadian Wetlands write by Rodney James Giblett. This book was released on 2014. Canadian Wetlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In "Canadian Wetlands," Rod Giblett reads the Canadian canon against the grain, critiquing its popular representation of wetlands and proposing alternatives by highlighting the work of recent and contemporary Canadian authors, such as Douglas Lochhead and Harry Thurston, and by entering into dialogue with American writers. The book will engender mutual respect between researchers for the contribution that different disciplinary approaches can and do make to the study and conservation of wetlands internationally."
