Describes how population growth, increased farming, and pollution affect rivers and lakes, contributing to habitat destruction and other damage, and discusses w

Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic," once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sam

Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased

The conventional approach to river protection has focused on water quality and maintaining some "minimum" flow that was thought necessary to ensure the viabilit

Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams: Ecology and Management takes an internationally broad approach, seeking to compare and contrast findings across multi