Download or read book The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea written by Rathbun and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of Paradise. Some of those things are incredible continuations of God's creation, while others are nothing but ambitious catastrophes. We continue making, says Russell Rathbun, but we've lost ourselves in the process. So how do we find ourselves again--rebuild our connections to each other, the earth, maybe even God? In search of an answer, Rathbun drives cross-country to the Salton Sea and takes a trip to China's Great Wall, interspersing his traveling revelations with engaging musings on Madame Mao's Gang of Four, Grandpa Webb's family secret, the Great Flood and the Tower of Babel, and a host of other subjects that grab his attention. With cheeky wit and sharp insight, Rathbun uncovers a way of finding ourselves and the deep connections we long for in an increasingly complex world.
Download or read book Dark Tourism in the American West written by Jennifer Dawes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West. The phenomenon of dark tourism—traveling to sites of death, suffering, and disaster for entertainment or educational purposes—has been described and, on occasion, criticized for transforming misfortune and catastrophe into commodity. The impulse, however, continues, particularly in the American West: a liminal and contested space that resonates with stories of tragedy, violent conflict, and disaster. Contributions here specifically examine the mediation and shaping of these spaces into touristic destinations. The essays examine Western sites of massacre and battle (such as Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site and the “Waco Siege”), sites of imprisonment (such as Japanese-American internment camps and Alcatraz Island), areas devastated by ecological disaster (such as Martin’s Cove and the Salton Sea), and unmediated sites (those sites left to the touristic imagination, with no interpretation of what occurred there, such as the Bennet-Arcane camp).
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Download or read book Freshwater written by James Fargo Balliett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshwater is our planet’s most precious resource, and also the least conserved. Freshwater makes up only 3 percent of the total water on the planet, and yet the majority (1.9 percent) is held in a frozen state in glaciers, icebergs, and polar ice fields. This leaves approximately one-half of 1 percent of the total volume of water on the planet as freshwater available in liquid form. This book traces the complex history of the steady growth of humankind’s water consumption, which today reaches some 9.7 quadrillion gallons per year. Along with a larger population has come the need for more drinking water, larger farms requiring extensive irrigation, and more freshwater to support business and industry. At the same time, such developments have led to increased water pollution. Three detailed case studies are included. The first looks at massive water systems in locations such as New York City and the efforts required to protect and transport such resources. The second shows how growth has affected freshwater quality in the ecologically unique and geographically isolated Lake Baikal region of eastern Russia. The third examines the success story of the privatized freshwater system in Chile and consider how that country’s water sources are threatened by climate change.
Download or read book Mega Cycle of Water written by Lyudmila Garcia and published by Lyudmila Garcia. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new book, "Mega Cycle of Water," describes solutions by answering the question: How can you increase water for food sustainability, innovation, and prosperity? The new book, "Mega Cycle of Water," describes the following solutions: - A plan to deploy and remove water by region with the goals of reduced economic hardship and increase economic development for a new better food and energy sustainability with zero cents of tax-payers. It’s time to start administer 3% Fresh Water from the total water earth. Among other important topics: - Paradox of greenhouse emissions and air pollution - Why Desalination Water Plants cannot be deployed globally? - Hydrogen Plant Costs Vs Natural Gas Plant for producing power - The Adverse Mega Solar Projects Effect into weather system and cycle of water. "We forgot the water cycle is the driving force of life, food, health, and prosperity!" says Lyudmila Garcia For Checking Table of Contents eBooks https://www.greenterra.org/
Download or read book WATERSHED MANAGEMENT written by MADAN MOHAN DAS and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watershed management has evolved and passed through several developmental stages. Realising the importance of watershed management, great efforts have been made by the government in preparing implementation strategies and the technical institutions have also introduced the subject in their curriculum at senior undergraduate and postgraduate levels of civil and agricultural engineering. Since this is a multidisciplinary subject, it finds place in environmental science and forestry curriculum as well. The book, comprising of 16 chapters, provides comprehensive coverage of the subject. Covering the concepts and principles of watershed management, the book discusses watershed characteristics, causes of watershed deterioration, soil erosion and soil–water relationship, management of natural drainages in watershed, wasteland, landslide and land drainage management, arable and non-arable land, design flow and design storm and effect of watershed on the community. Chapters on flood routing through channels and reservoirs in watershed and flood damage mitigation management in watershed add further value to the book.
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