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: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781559634441
Subjects: Hydrology (freshwater); Management of land & natural resources; Pollution of rivers & water supplies; Sustainability; Real Estate - General; Freshwater ecology; Nature; Business / Economics / Finance; Water conservation; Nature/Ecology; Water Supply; Rivers; Nature / Rivers; Political Science / Public Policy; Ecosystem management; Stream conservation
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.