Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places - Couverture rigide

Purseglove, Jeremy

 
9781788161596: Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World’s Wild Places
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1788161599 ISBN 13 : 9781788161596
Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

How do we work with nature rather than against it, both harvesting and conserving? The environmentalist Jeremy Purseglove shares a lifetime of experience.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jeremy Purseglove was born in Africa and grew up in Singapore, Trinidad and Kent. Working as an environmentalist in the water industry, he helped pioneer a new approach to reducing floods which also preserved the beauty of rivers. This culminated in a TV series and influential book, Taming the Flood, first published in 1986 and revised in 2017. In 1989 he joined an engineering consultancy, where he worked around the world with engineers to promote practical development while enhancing wetlands, forests and flower-rich meadows.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From cocoa farming in Ghana to the orchards of Kent and the desert badlands of Pakistan, taking a practical approach to sustaining the landscape can mean the difference between prosperity and ruin. Working with Nature is the story of a lifetime of work, often in extreme environments, to harvest nature and protect it - in effect, gardening on a global scale. It is also a memoir of encounters with larger-than-life characters such as William Bunting, the gun-toting saviour of Yorkshire's peatlands and the aristocratic gardener Vita Sackville-West, examining their idiosyncratic approaches to conservation. Jeremy Purseglove explains clearly and convincingly why it's not a good idea to extract as many resources as possible, whether it's the demand for palm oil currently denuding the forests of Borneo, cottonfield irrigation draining the Aral Sea, or monocrops spreading across Britain. The pioneer of engineering projects to preserve nature and landscape, first in Britain and then around the world, he offers fresh insights and solutions at each step.

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Éditeur
Profile Books Ltd
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1788161599
ISBN 13 
9781788161596
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1788161602 ISBN 13 :  9781788161602
Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2020
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