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    A world of rivers : environmental change on ten of the world's great rivers / Ellen Wohl.

    By: Wohl, Ellen E, 1962-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011Description: viii, 359 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226904788; 0226904784Other title: Environmental change on ten of the world's great riversSubject(s): Rivers -- Environmental aspects | Global environmental change | Stream health | Stream ecology | Global environmental change | Rivers -- Environmental aspects | Stream ecology | Stream health | Floder | Människans påverkan på naturenDDC classification: 551.48/3 LOC classification: GB1205 | .W64 2011
    Contents:
    A round river -- The Amazon : rivers of blushing dolphins -- Interlude -- The Ob : killing grandmother -- Interlude -- The Nile : lifeline in the desert -- Interlude -- The Danube : remnants of beauty -- Interlude -- The Ganges : eternally pure? -- Interlude -- The Mississippi : once and future river -- Interlude -- The Murray-Darling : stumbling in the waltz -- Interlude -- The Congo : river that swallows all rivers -- Interlude -- The Chang Jiang : bridling a dragon -- Interlude -- The Mackenzie : river on the brink -- An ebbing flow.
    Summary: This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world.
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-354) and index.

    A round river -- The Amazon : rivers of blushing dolphins -- Interlude -- The Ob : killing grandmother -- Interlude -- The Nile : lifeline in the desert -- Interlude -- The Danube : remnants of beauty -- Interlude -- The Ganges : eternally pure? -- Interlude -- The Mississippi : once and future river -- Interlude -- The Murray-Darling : stumbling in the waltz -- Interlude -- The Congo : river that swallows all rivers -- Interlude -- The Chang Jiang : bridling a dragon -- Interlude -- The Mackenzie : river on the brink -- An ebbing flow.

    This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world.

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