When The Rivers Run Dry: What Happens When Our Water Runs Out? - Couverture souple

Pearce, Fred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1903919584 ISBN 13 : 9781903919583

Editeur : Eden Project Books, 2007

Synopsis

Drought is THE environmental issue of the 21st century and Fred Pearce provides us with the most complete portrait yet of the causes of this global crisis.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist magazine, and is currently its environment and development consultant. He has written 14 previous books, which have been published in the UK and US and translated into French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Norwegian and Portugueseis. He writes regularly for the Independent and the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Boston Globe and Foreign Policy in the US. He is also syndicated in Japan, Australia and elsewhere and has filed articles from more than 50 countries in the past decade.
He was voted BEMA Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and has been short-listed for the same award in 2000, 2002 and 2003. He is a past recipient of the Peter Kent Conservation Book Award and the TES Junior Information Book Award. His books have been translated into eight languages.
He is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard and Judy to the Open University.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Of all the travel books I have ever read this is the most frightening, the most inspiring and the most important.'
DAVID BELLAMY

The world is running out of water. Some of our largest rivers now trickle into sand miles from the ocean, exhausted by human need. Water is 'the new oil' - except we can live without oil; there are no alternatives to fresh water.

Fred Pearce explores the complex origins of the growing world water crisis. His vivid reportage reveals the personal stories behind failing rivers, barren fields, desertification, floods, water wars, and even the death of cultures.

Is there hope? Yes - but only if we revolutionize the way we treat water. This phenomenally important book shows us just how essential it is that each of us takes responsibility for the water we use now - before all our rivers run dry.

'Pearce argues powerfully that unless mankind can rethink its whole attitude towards the use and misuse of resources, the consequence could be famine, pestilence and even war for huge numbers of human beings.'
TREVOR GROVE, DAILY MAIL

'More evangelist than doomsayer, Pearce writes with controlled passion about a subject that carries him to the edge of despair but in which he divines a few precious drops of hope . . .'
RICHARD GIRLING, SUNDAY TIMES

'Fred Pearce is an outstanding campaigning journalist and this terrifying yet ultimately optimistic book is a work of overwhelming importance.'
TAM DALYELL

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eden Project Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1903919584
• ISBN 13: 9781903919583
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible