When the Rivers Run Dry: Water-The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century - Couverture rigide

Pearce, Fred

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ISBN 10 : 0807085723 ISBN 13 : 9780807085721

Editeur : Beacon Pr, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Pearce Fred

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Fred Pearce is an award-winning author and journalist based in London. He has reported on environmental, science, and development issues from 85 countries over the past 20 years. An environment consultant at New Scientist magazine since 1992, he also writes regularly for the Guardian newspaper and Yale University’s prestigious e360 website. Pearce was voted UK Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and CGIAR agricultural research journalist of the year in 2002, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2011. His many books include Falllout, With Speed and Violence, Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, The Coming Population Crash, and The Land Grabbers.

Revue de presse

A strong—and scary—case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrific (thousands of wells in India and Bangladesh are poisoned by fluoride and arsenic) and fascinating (it takes 20 tons of water to make one pound of coffee), the former New Scientist news editor documents a 'kind of cataclysm' already affecting many of the world's great rivers.—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Oil we can replace. Water we can't—which is why this book is both so ominous and so important."—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Beacon Pr
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807085723
• ISBN 13: 9780807085721
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible