National Geographic Learning Reader: Water: Global Challenges and Policy of Freshwater Use (with eBook, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card) (Explore Our New Earth Sciences 1st Editions) - Softcover

National Geographic Learning

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113360367X ISBN 13: 9781133603672

Verlag: Cengage Learning, Inc, 2012

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Bring your learning to life with compelling images, media and text from National Geographic. Global Challenges and Policy of Freshwater Use will help you develop a clearer understanding of the world around you through engaging content. Organized into three units - historical context, current challenges, and potential solutions - Global Challenges and Policy of Freshwater Use introduces students to many of the real world challenges that both individuals and governments face in deciding how we should manage global freshwater resources. The selected articles pull from current events throughout the world to illustrate a variety of freshwater policy problems, including examples of the effects of changing climates on precipitation patterns, how growing populations and competing industry interests are having to adapt in a world with these changing patterns, and the controversy over what inherent and legal rights nature and wildlife should have in our water policy decisions. Selected readings also confront issues associated with the consequences of large-scale water pollution and aquifer depletion, restoration potentials and dam removal, freshwater production and distribution technologies, and international relations that are significantly influenced by water usage and rights. Collectively, these articles create a reader that is designed to help students from a wide variety of disciplines get a more thorough appreciation for the challenges involved in global freshwater policy.

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National Geographic Learning's mission is to bring the world to the classroom and the classroom to life. With our English language programs, students learn about their world by experiencing it. Through our partnerships with National Geographic and TED, they develop the language and skills they need to be successful global citizens and leaders.

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• Verlag: Cengage Learning, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 113360367X
• ISBN 13: 9781133603672
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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