An Acid River Runs Through It Softcover

Author : Eva-Lotta Jansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781367872394
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Acid River Runs Through It (Softcover) written by Eva-Lotta Jansson and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Acid River Runs Through It, photographer Eva-Lotta Jansson documents how water pollution by mining activities - acid mine drainage - affects water sources and communities in South Africa. Large volumes of acidic water carrying toxic sulphates and metals such as lead, zinc, copper and radioactive uranium are released into the environment by both past and current mining activities. The poisonous water flows from gold and coal mining sites, largely untreated, into the groundwater and into streams and rivers. These pollutants affect water resources already under strain from water shortages due to global warming and pollution by untreated sewage and other waste water. Acid mine water pollution most directly impacts already disadvantaged people in society, but ultimately threatens everyone's water resources and well-being. Although toxic, the pollution creates landscapes that are sometimes both colorful and eerily beautiful. Such photographs include a yellow lakebed filled with uranium dust and a white field looking like it's covered in snow. The photographer focuses on landscapes like these on the ground as well as from the air. In intimate portraits, we also meet communities and individuals who come in direct contact with the pollution. They include the farmers who lost both livestock and loved ones, after they drank poisoned water. We also see children play in a pool of rusty-colored acid mine drainage flowing outside their school gates. The book includes interviews with both experts and those affected. That makes this a factual photo book, which thoroughly explains what acid mine drainage is. Although the problem plagues many nations, the book analyses - within a historical context - why it's particularly bad in South Africa. The resulting document portrays an unmitigated environmental disaster and a violation of human rights. This 82-page soft-cover photo book includes 64 photographs and about 8,000 words. Copyright © Eva-Lotta Jansson 2015.

Author : Eva-Lotta Jansson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781320443364
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book An Acid River Runs Through It written by Eva-Lotta Jansson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Acid River Runs Through It documents how acid mine drainage (AMD) affects water sources and communities in South Africa. Large volumes of acidic water carrying toxic sulphates and metals such as lead, zinc, copper and radioactive uranium are released into the environment by current and past mining activities. The poisonous water flows from gold and coal mining, largely untreated, into the groundwater, and into streams and rivers. These pollutants affect water resources already under strain from water shortages due to global warming and pollution by untreated sewage and other waste water. Acid mine water pollution often most directly impacts already disadvantaged people in our society, but ultimately threatens everyone's water resources and well-being. The way I see it, it's an environmental disaster and a violation of human rights. It needs all of our attention.Although toxic, the colorful pollution sometimes creates landscapes that are eerily beautiful, including veld looking like it’s covered in snow; and, a deep-yellow lakebed filled with uranium dust. The book focuses on landscapes like these on the ground and from the air. In intimate portraits, the reader also gets to meet people who come in direct contact with the pollution, like the children playing in a pool of rusty-colored acid mine drainage flowing outside their school gates. Copyright © Eva-Lotta Jansson 2015. All rights reserved.82-page hard-cover photo book; 64 photographs; about 8,000 wordsA note about the format: This is a print-on demand book. That means each copy pays for its own printing cost. However, volume discounts are available directly from the printer, here on the purchase page. So if you work for an institution that could buy several copies for your employees or partners, it would be a great way to help distribute the work. You could also ask your university library to buy the book. (Volume discounts are available to rising degree, starting from 10, 51, and 101 copies etc.)

Author : MALA MUKHERJEE
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387550403
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Author : Elizabeth C. Economy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801459443
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book The River Runs Black written by Elizabeth C. Economy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental crisis and its implications for the country's future development. Drawing on historical research, case studies, and interviews with officials, scholars, and activists in China, the author traces the economic and political roots of China's environmental challenge and the evolution of the leadership's response. She argues that China's current approach to environmental protection mirrors the one embraced for economic development: devolving authority to local officials, opening the door to private actors, and inviting participation from the international community, while retaining only weak central control. The result has been a patchwork of environmental protection in which a few wealthy regions with strong leaders and international ties improve their local environments, while most of the country continues to deteriorate, sometimes suffering irrevocable damage. Economy compares China's response with the experience of other societies and sketches out several possible futures for the country. This second edition is updated with information about events during the past five years, covering China's tumultuous transformation of its economy and its landscape as it deals with the political implications of this behavior as viewed by an international community ever more concerned about climate change and dwindling energy resources.

Author : Sheila A. Sorrentino
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0323294057
Total Pages : 901 pages
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Author : Lynn E. Noel
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550810998
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Voyages: Canada's Heritage Rivers (soft cover) written by Lynn E. Noel and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyages is an exceptional book that celebrates the diversity and splendor of the twenty-seven rivers nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers system. Lynn Noel has assembled an impressive collection of stories that are filled with a spirit of adventure, discovery, beauty, and joy. The rivers in this book are more than flowing water, each has a unique story to tell, and each represents an important part of our Canadian heritage and identity. These rivers are the threads that bind this nation, from the Arctic Barrens to southe Ontario 's farmlands, from Newfoundland Rocky Hills to the mountains and glaciers of British Columbia. This is a perfect book for anyone who cares for or wishes to lea about, Canada's Spectacular River heritage and environment. - Don Gibson, National Manager, Canadian heritage rivers system project. The exploration of Canada's national river conservation system in its first ten years. Their spirit of place is captured in river songs, folktales, and Canadian Literature, with color photographs and hand-drawn maps.

Author : Emma Pass
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385372426
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Acid written by Emma Pass and published by Ember. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in the U.K. in 2013 by Corgi Books.

Author : James Ward
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365827690
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Into the Mournwood Soft Cover written by James Ward and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-02-26 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hagwood has long been avoided by rational men, even thanes dare not walk the woods. Only the desperate, the insane, and the dark souls of Pohjola travel the paths of the forest by choice, But destiny calls the brave and the fool. The greedy and the heroic. Can you face the dangers of the haunted wood? Will you save the lost travellers? How far will you go... Into the Mournwood? Into the Mournwood is the second adventure set within the Ice Kingdoms, written by industry legend James M. Ward, Into the Mournwood thrusts a band of adventurers into the dark and evil forests haunted by savage orcs, curses, zombies, canibals and the most feared monsters of the Thanelands, the hags of the Mournwood. Into the Mournwood can be used as a stand alone adventure or as part of an ongoing campaign and the adventure module can also be used as a campaign guidebook by Game Masters to set further adventures in the Haunted Forest.

Author : David Willis
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1464109133
Total Pages : 477 pages
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Download or read book Introduction to Wildlife and Fisheries (Paperback) written by David Willis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of Introduction to Wildlife and Fisheries marks the return of first and only book to integrate both the wildlife and fisheries into a single textbook at the introductory level. Thoroughly updated, with an inviting new design, the Second Edition offers the most current and accessible coverage of essential biological concepts and their applications, principles of resource management and conservation, and contemporary and public policy issues affecting today’s scientists and resources.

Author : Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724269
Total Pages : 198 pages
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