Water
Life in every drop
Published on 27. February 2020
Book
Hardback
234 pages
978-1-84319-964-9 (ISBN)
Description
As water crises multiply, and mass extinction and climate chaos escalate, we have the sense that nature is serving us a very clear warning and that something major has to change, or else. To respond requires that our adaptive skills are informed by ecology and applied effectively. The key issue is whether we can adjust our ways of life to make it in our new global environment. Building an informed awareness of water, and the life it bears in every drop, has to be a key starting point. Public involvement in the environmental struggle is now worldwide, transforming political agendas everywhere. Science, spirit and community are working together to release energy for change and justice at a scale seldom seen before. The channelling of this energy into ecological restoration and renewal of our relationships with nature and with each other is the great task of everyone alive today or soon to be born. It is time to make Peace with Nature.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
479 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84319-964-9 (9781843199649)
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Dr Julian Caldecott is an ecologist with a mission to help reduce and repair the damage that we are doing to the biosphere - the thin skin of life on Earth. He's spent years doing this through projects in tropical countries where the pace of environmental destruction is often fastest. His recent work as a senior consultant to the UN Environment Programme has aimed to restore natural ecosystems so as to reduce disaster risks and increase environmental security in the face of climate change.Julian sees the global water crisis as an outcome of humanity's unbalanced relationship with the biosphere. To correct this, he believes that the most important need is for public understanding of the values, functions and fragilities of nature, upon which effective action can be built. His books, which include Deep Water, Designing Conservation Projects and the World Atlas of Great Apes, aim to promote both understanding and action.