Rivers for Life
Subtitle: Managing Water For People And Nature
Contributors: The Nature Conservancy (Preface)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: October 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781559634434
Subjects: Hydrology (freshwater); Management of land & natural resources; Pollution of rivers & water supplies; Sustainability; Water Resources Conservation; Nature/Ecology; Water And Marine Resources Management; Water conservation; Nature; Business / Economics / Finance; Stream conservation; Real Estate - General; Rivers; Water Supply; Nature / Rivers; Political Science / Public Policy; Ecosystem management; Natural Resources; Freshwater ecology
First sentence: In his 1901 inaugural address, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt set the tone for what would become a century of unprecedented and profound transformation of the earth's rivers.