1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910407757003321

Titolo

Environmental Health : Management and Prevention Practices / / edited by Abdelhadi Makan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : IntechOpen, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-83962-777-8

1-78984-895-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 126 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

616.98

Soggetti

Environmental health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNICASRML0304182

Autore

Comaroff, John

Titolo

Ethnography and the historical imagination / John and Jean Comaroff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, : Westview Press, 1992

ISBN

1813313058

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 337 p. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Comaroff, Jean

Disciplina

305.8

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299400503321

Autore

Wohl Ellen

Titolo

Sustaining River Ecosystems and Water Resources / / by Ellen Wohl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-65124-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 151 p. 54 illus., 49 illus. in color.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science, , 2191-5547

Disciplina

551.4

Soggetti

Marine sciences

Fresh water

Hydrology

Biotic communities

Geomorphology

Environmental management

Sustainable development

Marine & Freshwater Sciences

Hydrology/Water Resources

Ecosystems

Environmental Management

Sustainable Development



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Rivers as Ecosystems -- Chapter3. Human Alterations of Rivers -- Chapter4. Toward Sustainable Rivers and Water Resources.

Sommario/riassunto

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river. Rivers are commonly regarded from a very simplistic perspective as conduits for downstream flows of water. In this context, it may be considered acceptable and necessary to engineer the channel to either facilitate such flows (e.g., channelization, levees) or limit flows and store water (e.g., water supply reservoirs, flood control). The book presents the concept of a river as a spatially and temporally complex ecosystem that is likely to be disrupted in unexpected and damaging ways by direct river engineering and by human activities throughout a drainage basin.  Viewing a river as a complex ecosystem with nonlinear responses to human activities will help to promote a more nuanced and effective approach to managing river ecosystems and to sustaining the water resources that derive from rivers. In this context, water resources refers to ecosystem services including water supply, water quality, flood control, erosion control, and riverine biota (e.g., freshwater fisheries). Chapters in this book draw extensively on existing literature but integrate this literature from a fresh perspective. General principles are expanded upon and illustrated with photographs, line drawings, tables, and brief, site-specific case studies from rivers around the world.