Return To The Marshes
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Return To The Marshes
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Author : Gavin Young
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-10-20
Return To The Marshes written by Gavin Young and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-20 with Travel categories.
It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times
Return To The Marshes
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Author : Gavin Young
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Return To The Marshes written by Gavin Young and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Iraq categories.
Cities And Wetlands
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Author : Rodney James Giblett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Cities And Wetlands written by Rodney James Giblett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Electronic book categories.
Pt. 1. Beginnings -- pt. 2. European cities and wetlands -- pt. 3. North American cities and wetlands -- pt. 4. More beginnings
Cities And Wetlands
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Author : Rod Giblett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Cities And Wetlands written by Rod Giblett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories. Developing a ground-breaking new mode of psychoanalytic ecology and surveying a wide range of major cities in North America and Europe, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and the environment. Cities covered include: Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hamburg, London, New Orleans, New York, Paris, St. Petersburg, Toronto, Venice and Washington.
The Ghosts Of Iraq S Marshes
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Author : Steve Lonergan
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2024-04-23
The Ghosts Of Iraq S Marshes written by Steve Lonergan and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-23 with Science categories.
The gripping history of the devastation and resurrection of the Marshes of Iraq, an environmental treasure of the Middle East, now a protected site The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq, once the largest wetland system on the planet, have been inhabited for thousands of years by the Ma‘dan, or Marsh Arabs, but they remain remote, isolated, and virtually unknown. In the early 1990s, the Saddam Hussein regime drained the Marshes and set out to destroy not only a critical ecosystem but a unique way of life as well. It stands as one of the greatest environmental and humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century. In the wake of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, local residents destroyed the earthen dams built to divert water from the wetlands and the Marshes were reflooded. Their future, however, is in peril. The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes tells the history of the creation, destruction, and revitalization of the Marshes and their inhabitants against the backdrop of the dramatic events that have convulsed Iraq in the past fifty years. It follows the life of Jassim al-Asadi, an irrigation engineer who was jailed and tortured under Saddam Hussein and who subsequently dedicated his life to the reflooding and restoration of the Marshes. He eventually contributed to the Marshes being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Jassim is eminently relatable, and the stories of his life and other marsh dwellers are infused with pathos, tragedy, humor, and passion.
Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1987 Bureau Of Land Management
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Department Of The Interior And Related Agencies Appropriations For 1987 Bureau Of Land Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of the Interior and Related Agencies and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with United States categories.
National Wetlands Newsletter
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
National Wetlands Newsletter written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Wetland conservation categories.
Salt Marshes
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Author : Judith S Weis
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-16
Salt Marshes written by Judith S Weis and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-16 with Nature categories.
Tall green grass. Subtle melodies of songbirds. Sharp whines of muskrats. Rustles of water running through the grasses. And at low tide, a pungent reminder of the treasures hidden beneath the surface.All are vital signs of the great salt marshes' natural resources. Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of the environmental service and protection they provide, these ecological wonders were once considered unproductive wastelands, home solely to mosquitoes and toxic waste, and mistreated for centuries by the human population. Exploring the fascinating biodiversity of these boggy wetlands, Salt Marshes offers readers a wealth of essential information about a variety of plants, fish, and animals, the importance of these habitats, consequences of human neglect and thoughtless development, and insight into how these wetlands recover. Judith S. Weis and Carol A. Butler shed ample light on the human impact, including chapters on physical and biological alterations, pollution, and remediation and recovery programs. In addition to a national and global perspective, the authors place special emphasis on coastal wetlands in the Atlantic and Gulf regions, as well as the San Francisco Bay Area, calling attention to their historical and economic legacies. Written in clear, easy-to-read language, Salt Marshes proves that the battles for preservation and conservation must continue, because threats to salt marshes ebb and flow like the water that runs through them.
Treatment Marshes For Runoff And Polishing
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Author : Robert H. Kadlec
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2019-07-09
Treatment Marshes For Runoff And Polishing written by Robert H. Kadlec and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-09 with Science categories.
Treatment Marshes for Runoff and Polishing represents the most comprehensive and up-date-date resource for the design, construction, and operation of marsh treatment systems. This new edition represents a complete rewrite of the surface flow sections of previous editions of Treatment Wetlands. It is based on the performance hundreds of treatment marshes over the past 40 years. Treatment Marshes focuses on urban and agricultural runoff, river and lake water improvement, and highly treated municipal effluents. New information from the past dozen years is used to improve data interpretation and design concepts. Topics included in this book are Diversity of marsh vegetation Analyses of the human use of treatment marshes New concepts of underground processes and functions Spectrum of marsh values spanning mitigation, restoration, enhancement, and water quality improvement Improved methods for calculation of evapotranspiration and wetland water temperatures Hydraulics of surface and subsurface flows in marshes Analysis of long track records for deterministic and probabilistic behavior Consideration of integrated microbial and vegetative contaminant removals via mass balances Uptake and emission of gases Performance of urban and agricultural wetlands Design procedures for urban and agricultural wetlands Reduction of trace metals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and trace organics Updated capital and O&M economics, and valuation of ancillary benefits An updated list of over 1900 references
The Ecology Of Irregularly Flooded Salt Marshes Of The Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico
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Author : Judy P. Stout
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Ecology Of Irregularly Flooded Salt Marshes Of The Northeastern Gulf Of Mexico written by Judy P. Stout and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Marsh ecology categories.