Connecting the drops : a citizens' guide to protecting water resources /
The need for improved water resource protection, beginning with grassroots action, is urgent. The water we use depends on networks of wetlands, streams, and watersheds. Land-use activities, however, are changing these natural systems. Often these changes result in ecological damage, flooding, water...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press,
2015.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Natural water systems and their benefits
- Picturing environmental features and systems
- How land use activities affect water
- Measuring the impacts
- Energy development and water
- Weighing significant impacts, true costs, and mitigation
- Overcoming obstacles to water protection
- Strategies for action.