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This new edition - now with Nancy Jackson as a co-author -
continues the themes of the first edition: the need to restore the
biodiversity, ecosystem health, and ecosystem services provided by
coastal landforms and habitats, especially in the light of climate
change. The second edition reports on progress made on practices
identified in the first edition, presents additional case studies,
and addresses new and emerging issues. It analyzes the tradeoffs
involved in restoring beaches and dunes - especially on developed
coasts - the most effective approaches to use, and how stakeholders
can play an active role. The concept of restoration is broad, and
includes physical, ecological, economic, social, and ethical
principles and ideals. The book will be valuable for coastal
scientists, engineers, planners, and managers, as well as
shorefront residents. It will also serve as a useful supplementary
reference textbook in courses dealing with issues of coastal
management and ecology.
The Niger River Basin is a transboundary basin covering nine
riparian countries to the Niger River that are increasingly putting
pressure on the available water resources as their populations
expand. Yet, the nine countries are also among the poorest in the
world and adequate exploitation of the water of the basin could be
part of a broader strategy for poverty reduction in these
countries. Major challenges to that end are the lacking water
infrastructure and growing vulnerability to extreme weather hazards
as the climate changes. In that context, a better understanding of
the state of water resources in the basin is a crucial departure
point for any measures towards the sustainable use of water. The
Water Accounting Plus (WA+) system designed by IHE Delft with its
partners FAO and IWMI has been applied to gain full insights into
the state of the water resources in the basin
Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black
Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of
the unique life and work of Rod Giblett. For over 25 years he was a
leading local wetland conservationist, environmental activist, and
pioneer transdisciplinary researcher and writer of fiction and
non-fiction. He has researched, written, and published more than 25
books in the environmental humanities, especially wetland cultural
studies, and psychoanalytic ecology. Black Swan Song traces Rod's
early and later life and work from being born in Borneo as the
child of Christian missionaries, through his childhood in Bible
College, being a High School dropout and studying at three
universities to becoming an academic, activist and author, and now
a writer. Following in the footsteps of New Lives of the Saints:
Twelve Environmental Apostles, Black Swan Song also comprises
conversations in conservation counter-theology between the twelve
minor biblical prophets and twelve environmental apostles, such as
Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Rachel Carson. It
also introduces the lives and works of twelve more environmental
apostles, such as John Clare, Rebecca Solnit, John Charles Ryan,
and others who have made a valuable contribution to green thinking
and living. Black Swan Song mixes modes and genres, such as memoir,
essay, story, criticism, etc., making up the writer's black swan
song. It provides ways of living and being with the earth in dark
and troubled times by providing resources of a journey of hope for
learning to live bio- and psycho-symbiotic livelihoods in
bioregional home habitats of the living earth and in the
Symbiocene, the hoped-for age superseding the Anthropocene.
In The End of the Anthropocene, Michael J. Gormley examines
literary imaginations of the anthropocene's end and the future of
the astropocene. Gormley analyzes literary images of human tracks
on Earth, the Moon, and Mars to characterize the late-stage
anthropocene and to explore humanity's role in the universal
ecosystem. The End of the Anthropocene uses a predictive and
paradigmatic model of ecocriticism, examining science fiction works
as interplanetary nature narratives.
Geomorphological landforms and processes exert a strong influence
on surface engineering works, yet comparatively little systematic
information on geomorphology is available to engineers. This book
presents a worldwide view of geomorphology for engineers and other
professionals on the near-surface engineering problems associated
with the various landscapes. This new and completely revised
edition has additional chapters with an improved format and is
broadly divided into three parts.;The first part is concerned with
the major factors which control the materials, form and processes
on the Earth's surfaces. The second part deals with the
geomorphological processes which help shape land surfaces and
influence their engineering characteristics and the final part
covers environments and landscapes, including some specialist
chapters. Each chapter is written by leading authorities on the
subject and is both self-contained and referenced with other
chapters as appropriate to make a balanced whole.;Readership:
practitioners and academics in civil, geotechnical, foundation
engineering, soil and rock mechanics, and engineering geology.;
Practitioners, postgraduate and advanced undergraduates
In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod
Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and
argues for their conservation. Giblett's analysis of the wetland
motif in literature and the arts, including in Beowulf and the
writings of Tolkien and Thoreau, demonstrates two approaches to
wetlands-their denigration as dead or their commendation as living
waters with a potent cultural history.
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