TY - BOOK AU - Wohl,Ellen E. TI - A world of rivers: environmental change on ten of the world's great rivers SN - 9780226904788 AV - GB1205 .W64 2011 U1 - 551.48/3 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Rivers KW - Environmental aspects KW - Global environmental change KW - Stream health KW - Stream ecology KW - fast KW - Floder KW - sao KW - Människans påverkan på naturen N1 - 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 N2 - This book explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world ER -