When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Pearce, Fred

 
9780807085738: When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807085731 ISBN 13: 9780807085738
Verlag: BEACON PR, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce travels to more than thirty countries to examine the current state of crucial water sources. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historic dimensions of the world water crisis, he provides our most complete portrait yet of this growing danger and its ramifications for us all.

Named as one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books by University of Cambridges Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Greenleaf Publishing.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Fred Pearce is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from 85 countries over the past 20 years. An environment consultant at New Scientist magazine since 1992, he also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper and Yale University’s prestigious e360 website. Pearce was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and CGIAR agricultural research journalist of the year in 2002, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011. His many books include Falllout, With Speed and Violence, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, The Coming Population Crash, and The Land Grabbers.

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Verlag
BEACON PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807085731
ISBN 13 
9780807085738
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
324
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Verantwortliche Person
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