عنوان

The marsh builders :

شابک

0190246405

شابک

9780190246402

عنوان اصلي

The marsh builders :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the fight for clean water, wetlands, and wildlife /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sharon Levy.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York, NY, United States of America :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

[2018]

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xiii, 234 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Cholera's frontiers -- Tides of change -- The microbe solution -- Emperor Joseph's roots -- Strangled waters : first wave -- Fighting the big sewage machine -- The United States of vanished wetlands -- Revolution -- Do-it-yourself wetlands -- Strangled waters : second wave -- Wild things -- Of time and the wetland -- The tide rises -- The fight this time.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

"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"--Jacket.

عنوان اصلي به زبان ديگر

Fight for clean water, wetlands, and wildlife

موضوع مستند نشده

Sewage-- Purification-- Biological treatment.

موضوع مستند نشده

Water-- Purification-- Biological treatment.

موضوع مستند نشده

Wetland restoration-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sewage-- Purification-- Biological treatment.

موضوع مستند نشده

Water-- Purification-- Biological treatment.

موضوع مستند نشده

Wetland restoration.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Levy, Sharon,1959-

تاريخ عمليات

20200822090448.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y