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Water Is for Fighting Over: And Other Myths about Water in the West by John Fleck 9781642830118
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69"Illuminating." --New York Times WIRED's Required Science Reading 2016 When we think of water in the West, we think of conflict and crisis. In recent years, newspaper headlines have... -
The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity by Sandra Postel 9781853831485
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38For decades now we have wasted and mismanaged the world?s water supplies. Today, 27 countries are short of water, a quarter of the world?s population has no safe water, 46 per cent have no proper... -
Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity Sandra Postel 9781642830101
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £25.21We have disrupted the natural water cycle for centuries in an effort to control water for our own prosperity. Yet every year, recovery from droughts and floods costs billions of dollars, and we spend... -
Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity by Sandra Postel 9780393317442
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.16We have taken for granted seemingly endless supplies of water flowing from reservoirs wells, and diversion projects; access to water has been key to food security, industrialization, and the growth... -
Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last? by Sandra Postel 9780393319378
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.31For 6,000 years, irrigation has ranked among the most powerful tools of human advancement. The story of settled agriculture, the growth of cities, and the rise of early empires is, to no small... -
Chasing Water: A Guide for Moving from Scarcity to Sustainability by Brian Richter 9781610915380
Booksplease Price: £26.15Water scarcity is spreading and intensifying in many regions of the world, with dire consequences for local communities, economies, and freshwater ecosystems. Current approaches tend to rely on... -
What Rivers Know: Listening to the Voices of Global Waterways Basia Irland 9781648432569
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.04What if rivers could talk and tell their stories? What would they tell us? In What Rivers Know, artist Basia Irland insinuates herself as the voice of major waterways as they struggle to navigate... -
State of the World 2000: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society by The Worldwatch Institute 9780393319989
RRP: £23.50Booksplease Price: £22.09The newest volume in the annual series that has become the bible of the global environmental movement--and indispensable for anyone concerned with the future of our world. State of the World 2000... -
Southern Rivers: Restoring America's Freshwater Biodiversity by R. Scot Duncan 9780817361280
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Explores the Southeast's imperiled river systems and solutions for preserving them in the face of habitat loss, climate change, and extinctionSouthern Rivers, by award-winning nature writer and... -
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge by Erica Gies 9781800247376
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42A journey through time and around the world to uncover water's true nature, and how it can help us adapt to climate change. Trouble with water - increasingly frequent, extreme floods and droughts... -
Water for Food Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture David Molden 9781844073962
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £67.64Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation... -
Dictionary of Sustainability Margaret Robertson 9781138690837
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.86The Dictionary of Sustainability provides clear and accurate definitions of the extensive vocabulary that has developed in this emerging and interdisciplinary field, saving considerable time from... -
Water in Plain Sight: Hope for a Thirsty World by Judith Schwartz
Booksplease Price: £16.15Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts-and even... -
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain into Your Life and Landscape Brad Lancaster 9780977246458
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £29.662020 Independent Press Award Winner--Home & Garden Category Turn water scarcity into water abundance! Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond, Volume 1, 3rd Edition is the best-selling,...