Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places - Softcover

Purseglove, Jeremy

 
9781788161602: Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places

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How do we work with nature rather than against it, both harvesting and conserving? The environmentalist Jeremy Purseglove shares a lifetime of experience.

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Jeremy Purseglove was born in Africa and grew up in Singapore, Trinidad and Kent. Working as an environmentalist in the water industry, he helped pioneer a new approach to reducing floods which also preserved the beauty of rivers. This culminated in a TV series and influential book, Taming the Flood, first published in 1986 and revised in 2017. In 1989 he joined an engineering consultancy, where he worked around the world with engineers to promote practical development while enhancing wetlands, forests and flower-rich meadows.

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ISBN 10:  1788161599 ISBN 13:  9781788161596
Verlag: Profile Books, 2019
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