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Rivers and Society
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Malcolm Cooper
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-22 - Publisher: Routledge

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Rivers and their watersheds constitute some of the most dynamic and complex landscapes. Rivers have sustained human communities, and human societies have utiliz
Rivers in History
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Christof Mauch
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-27 - Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre

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Throughout history, rivers have run a wide course through human temporal and spiritual experience. They have demarcated mythological worlds, framed the cradle o
Rivers for Life
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Sandra Postel
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-22 - Publisher: Island Press

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The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viabilit
Rivers, Memory, And Nation-building
Language: en
Pages: 203
Authors: Dorothy Zeisler-Vralsted
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Rivers figure prominently in a nation’s historical memory, and the Volga and Mississippi have special importance in Russian and American cultures. Beginning i
Renewing Our Rivers
Language: en
Pages: 489
Authors: Mark K. Briggs
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-05 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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Our rivers are in crisis and the need for river restoration has never been more urgent. Water security and biodiversity indices for all of the world’s major r
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