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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subtitle
- The Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife
- EAN
- 9780190246402
- ISBN
- 9780190246402
- Release Year
- 2018
- Publication Name
- The Marsh Builders
- Title
- The Marsh Builders
- ISBN-10
- 0190246405
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Release Date
- 08/09/2018
- Book Title
- Marsh Builders : the Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 6.1 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science
- Topic
- Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental / Water Supply, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental / Waste Management, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Life Sciences / Biology
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 250 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190246405
ISBN-13
9780190246402
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242631728
Product Key Features
Book Title
Marsh Builders : the Fight for Clean Water, Wetlands, and Wildlife
Number of Pages
250 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Life Sciences / Ecology, Environmental / Water Supply, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental / Waste Management, Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
6.1 in
Item Width
9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-059445
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"This is an excellent reference for ecologists, microbiologists, and engineers with soils, civil, and sanitary backgrounds, as well as students." --CHOICE "Sharon Levy's new book offers a fascinating history of wetlands, their human-caused decline and our growing understanding of why we need to restore them." --Erica Gies, IThe Relevator "Sharon Levy's book spans centuries and continents to make a powerful argument for a back-to-nature approach to deal with sewage. Rather than sophisticated technology, she convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint." -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former Head of Policy, WaterAid India, "Sharon Levy's new book offers a fascinating history of wetlands, their human-caused decline and our growing understanding of why we need to restore them." --Erica Gies, IThe Relevator "Sharon Levy's book spans centuries and continents to make a powerful argument for a back-to-nature approach to deal with sewage. Rather than sophisticated technology, she convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint." -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former Head of Policy, WaterAid India, "If only we had realized how critically important our wetlands were before we drained, filled, and polluted them. How could this have happened and what do we do now? I highly recommend reading Levy's book to find out." -- Jennifer H. Mattei, Sacred Heart University"[an]excellent account of our relationship with water and wetlands over the past 200 years by veteran science journalist Sharon Levy." --Trent Tegler, Liana Environmental Consulting Ltd., Fergus, ON, Canada The Canadian Field-Naturalist V"This is an excellent reference for ecologists, microbiologists, and engineers with soils, civil, and sanitary backgrounds, as well as students." --CHOICE"Sharon Levy's new book offers a fascinating history of wetlands, their human-caused decline and our growing understanding of why we need to restore them." --Erica Gies, IThe Relevator"Sharon Levy's book spans centuries and continents to make a powerful argument for a back-to-nature approach to deal with sewage. Rather than sophisticated technology, she convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint." -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former Head of Policy, WaterAid India, "[an]excellent account of our relationship with water and wetlands over the past 200 years by veteran science journalist Sharon Levy." --Trent Tegler, Liana Environmental Consulting Ltd., Fergus, ON, Canada The Canadian Field-Naturalist V "This is an excellent reference for ecologists, microbiologists, and engineers with soils, civil, and sanitary backgrounds, as well as students." --CHOICE "Sharon Levy's new book offers a fascinating history of wetlands, their human-caused decline and our growing understanding of why we need to restore them." --Erica Gies, IThe Relevator "Sharon Levy's book spans centuries and continents to make a powerful argument for a back-to-nature approach to deal with sewage. Rather than sophisticated technology, she convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint." -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former Head of Policy, WaterAid India, "If only we had realized how critically important our wetlands were before we drained, filled, and polluted them. How could this have happened and what do we do now? I highly recommend reading Levy's book to find out." -- Jennifer H. Mattei, Sacred Heart University "[an]excellent account of our relationship with water and wetlands over the past 200 years by veteran science journalist Sharon Levy." --Trent Tegler, Liana Environmental Consulting Ltd., Fergus, ON, Canada The Canadian Field-Naturalist V "This is an excellent reference for ecologists, microbiologists, and engineers with soils, civil, and sanitary backgrounds, as well as students." --CHOICE "Sharon Levy's new book offers a fascinating history of wetlands, their human-caused decline and our growing understanding of why we need to restore them." --Erica Gies, IThe Relevator "Sharon Levy's book spans centuries and continents to make a powerful argument for a back-to-nature approach to deal with sewage. Rather than sophisticated technology, she convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint." -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former Head of Policy, WaterAid India, "Sharon Levy's book spans centuries and continents to make a powerful argument for a back-to-nature approach to deal with sewage. Rather than sophisticated technology, she convincingly brings out how nature has ways we can learn from for treating sewage with a minimal environmental footprint." -- Nitya Jacob, water policy analyst, consultant, and former Head of Policy, WaterAid India
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
577.68
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1: Cholera's Frontiers Chapter 2: Tides of Change Chapter 3: The Microbe Solution Chapter 4: Emperor Joseph's Roots Chapter 5: Strangled Waters: First Wave Chapter 6: Fighting the Big Sewage Machine Chapter 7: The United States of Vanished Wetlands Chapter 8: Revolution Chapter 9: Do-It-Yourself Wetlands Chapter 10: Strangled Waters: Second Wave Chapter 11: Wild Things Chapter 12: Things Fall Apart Chapter 13: The Tide Rises
Synopsis
Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the US have vanished, transformed into farm fields or buried under city streets. In The Marsh Builders, Sharon Levy delves into the intertwined histories of wetlands loss and water pollution. The book's springboard is the tale of a years-long citizen uprising in Humboldt County, California, which led to the creation of one of the first U.S. wetlands designed to treat city sewage. The book explores the global roots of this local story: the cholera epidemics that plagued nineteenth-century Europe; the researchers who invented modern sewage treatment after bumbling across the insight that microbes break down pollutants in water; the discovery that wetlands act as efficient filters for the pollutants unleashed by modern humanity. More than forty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act launched a nation-wide effort to rescue lakes, rivers and estuaries fouled with human and industrial waste, the need for revived wetlands is more urgent than ever. Waters from Lake Erie and Chesapeake Bay to China's Lake Taihu are tainted with an overload of nutrients carried in runoff from farms and cities, creating underwater dead zones and triggering algal blooms that release toxins into drinking water sources used by millions of people. As the planet warms, scientists are beginning to design wetlands that can shield coastal cities from rising seas. Revived wetlands hold great promise for healing the world's waters., Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the US have vanished, transformed into farm fields or buried under city streets. In The Marsh Builders, Sharon Levy delves into the intertwined histories of wetlands loss and water pollution. The book's springboard is the tale of a years-long citizen uprising in Humboldt County, California, which led to the creation of one of the first U.S. wetlands designed to treat city sewage. The book explores the global roots of this local story: the cholera epidemics that plagued nineteenth-century Europe; the researchers who invented modern sewage treatment after bumbling across the insight that microbes break down pollutants in water; the discovery that wetlands act as efficient filters for the pollutants unleashed by modern humanity.More than forty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act launched a nation-wide effort to rescue lakes, rivers and estuaries fouled with human and industrial waste, the need for revived wetlands is more urgent than ever. Waters from Lake Erie and Chesapeake Bay to China's Lake Taihu are tainted with an overload of nutrients carried in runoff from farms and cities, creating underwater dead zones and triggering algal blooms that release toxins into drinking water sources used by millions of people. As the planet warms, scientists are beginning to design wetlands that can shield coastal cities from rising seas. Revived wetlands hold great promise for healing the world's waters., Reviving lost wetlands is vital to the long-term health of human communities and the waters that sustain them. The Marsh Builders interweaves the tale of a citizen uprising against conventional sewage treatment with the history of water pollution and the emerging scientific understanding of wetlands as effective natural filters for tainted water., Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the US have vanished, transformed into farm fields or buried under city streets. In The Marsh Builders , Sharon Levy delves into the intertwined histories of wetlands loss and water pollution. The book's springboard is the tale of a years-long citizen uprising in Humboldt County, California, which led to the creation of one of the first U.S. wetlands designed to treat city sewage. The book explores the global roots of this local story: the cholera epidemics that plagued nineteenth-century Europe; the researchers who invented modern sewage treatment after bumbling across the insight that microbes break down pollutants in water; the discovery that wetlands act as efficient filters for the pollutants unleashed by modern humanity. More than forty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act launched a nation-wide effort to rescue lakes, rivers and estuaries fouled with human and industrial waste, the need for revived wetlands is more urgent than ever. Waters from Lake Erie and Chesapeake Bay to China's Lake Taihu are tainted with an overload of nutrients carried in runoff from farms and cities, creating underwater dead zones and triggering algal blooms that release toxins into drinking water sources used by millions of people. As the planet warms, scientists are beginning to design wetlands that can shield coastal cities from rising seas. Revived wetlands hold great promise for healing the world's waters.
LC Classification Number
QH541.5.M3L44 2018
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