Diane Raines Ward

Water Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Drought, Flood, Folly, and the Politics of Thirst

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Updated with new material Every day, we hear alarming news about droughts, pollution, population growth, and climate change—which threaten to make water, even more than oil, the cause of war within our lifetime. Diane Raines Ward reaches beyond the headlines to illuminate our most vexing problems and tells the stories of those working to solve them: hydrologists, politicians, engineers, and everyday people. Based on ten years of research spanning five continents, Water Wars offers fresh insight into a subject to which our fate is inextricably bound.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781101663974
• Artikelnr.: 44949713

Autorenporträt

Diane Raines Ward is a journalist whose work has appeared in Smithsonian, Newsweek, Connoisseur, and International Wildlife. She and her husband, Geoffrey C. Ward, co-wrote the book Tiger-Wallahs: Encounters with the Men Who Tried to Save the Greatest of the Great Cats. Together they run a nonprofit organization dedicated to conservation efforts in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Water WarsIntroduction
Sweet Water
Chapter 1
Hold Back the Sea
Climate Shock and Rising Waters
Chapter 2
A Sin of Scale
The Great Projects
Chapter 3
A Thousand Valleys
River Basins and Utopian Dreams
Chapter 4
Dry, Drier, Driest
Greening the Desert
Chapter 5
Predicaments
Power and Water
Chapter 6
Raging Rivers
Living in Floodplains
Chapter 7
The Wars
Chapter 8
Praying for Rain
Epilogue
The Everglades
Notes
Glossary and Abbreviations
Selected Bibliography by Subject
Acknowledgments
Index