"This book covers recent research relevant to coastal watersheds. It addresses the impact of a stream's chemical, biological, and sediment pollutants on the quality of the receiving waters, such as estuaries, bays, and near-shore waters. The contents of the book can be divided i…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unifie…
Introduction -- Part I. Taking identity too seriously: Against the desert island model of territorial politics -- The desert island model of territorial politics -- What do borders divide? Peoples, places, jurisdictions -- Democratic legitimacy and the vicious circle of people a…
"When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to whom the land l…
"When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to whom the land l…
Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life. Based on the …
"As water scarcity increases, pressure to re-allocate water from agriculture to other uses mounts. With this mounting pressure comes the need for institutional arrangements that can manage and accommodate shifts to 'higher value' uses of water. These changes in resource allocati…
by Marshall, D. C. W., Bayliss, Adrian C.
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The thesis research on flower production, power relations and water use in Ecuador aims at gaining comprehension about the situation of irrigation development, particularly about the competition and conflicts regarding the highly unequal access to water, rights of water control,…
The objectives of this research are to better understand: (1) how Arctic watersheds respond in terms of hydrological processes to deepening active layers, (2) what the short and long-term changes are to surface water chemistry in watersheds impacted by thermal and physical perma…
Part One of this book introduces the challenges of monitoring and evaluating interventions designed by technical experts meeting the needs of people who actually use the environment which the interventions are seeking to modify. The chapters in this section seek reconciliation …
by Institute of Hydrology (Great Britain), Robinson, M., (Mark), Natural Environment Research Council (Great Britain), Conference of the European Network of Experimental and Representative Basins, Oxford, England)
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Geochemical Processes, Weathering and Groundwater Recharge in Catchments is a specialist book concerned with the natural processes taking place where water interacts with minerals and organic matter at the earth's surface, in soils or within aquifers. It focuses on the all impor…
