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Wasser: Der epische Kampf um Reichtum, Macht und Zivilisation
by Solomon, Steven | HC | Good
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- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 0060548304
- Book Title
- Water : the Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Science, History
- Topic
- Environmental / Water Supply, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Civilization, General
- Item Weight
- 28 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 608 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060548304
ISBN-13
9780060548308
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72070056
Product Key Features
Book Title
Water : the Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Environmental / Water Supply, Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Civilization, General
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Science, History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
28 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Trade
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2009-027500
Reviews
A sweeping history. . . . Solomon identifies plenty of obstacles to an equitable future, both institutional and geophysical, but remains optimistic that science-born solutions are in the offing. . . . A useful piece for readers interested in natural resources and the geopolitics attendant to them., ' Steve Solomon also defines the critical challenges of water? and the need for new thinking ? for nations and peoples around the world, both for today and in the future.' ?Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power ( Daniel Yergin , author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power ), " Steve Solomon also defines the critical challenges of water - and the need for new thinking - for nations and peoples around the world, both for today and in the future." -Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, This volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history., A fascinating and provocative work of history that shines new light on what is probably the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time. Steven Solomon's brilliant book reveals how today's planetary crisis of freshwater scarcity is recasting the world order and the societies in which we live., Solomon's soaring account of our attempt to manage earth's total environment over millennia never neglects the individuals, inventions, and initiatives pivotal to that effort. Water is the most alarming and compelling call to action I've read since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ., A tour de force. . . . Thoughtful. . . . Well-written. . . . Solomon shows that when the incentives are right where governments and markets are allowed to focus on the real costs of and opportunities for using water resources--much better management of water systems follows., " Steve Solomon also defines the critical challenges of water -- and the need for new thinking -- for nations and peoples around the world, both for today and in the future." --Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, " Steve Solomon also defines the critical challenges of water and the need for new thinking for nations and peoples around the world, both for today and in the future." -Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, A tour de force. . . . Thoughtful. . . . Well-written. . . . Solomon shows that when the incentives are right—where governments and markets are allowed to focus on the real costs of and opportunities for using water resources--much better management of water systems follows., Solomon's soaring account of our attempt to manage earth's total environment over millennia never neglects the individuals, inventions, and initiatives pivotal to that effort. Water is the most alarming and compelling call to action I've read since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring., " Steve Solomon also defines the critical challenges of water - and the need for new thinking - for nations and peoples around the world, both for today and in the future." --Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, “Solomon’s soaring account of our attempt to manage earth’s total environment over millennia never neglects the individuals, inventions, and initiatives pivotal to that effort. Water is the most alarming and compelling call to action I’ve read since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring .â€�, Persuasive. . . . Unique. . . . Solomon surveys the current state of the world's water resources by region, making a compelling case that the U.S. and other leading democracies have untapped strategic advantages that will only become more significant as water becomes scarcer., A tour de force. . . . Thoughtful. . . . Well-written. . . . Solomon shows that when the incentives are right-where governments and markets are allowed to focus on the real costs of and opportunities for using water resources--much better management of water systems follows., "A tour de force. . . . Thoughtful. . . . Well-written. . . . Solomon shows that when the incentives are right--where governments and markets are allowed to focus on the real costs of and opportunities for using water resources--much better management of water systems follows." -- The National Interest "A fascinating and provocative work of history that shines new light on what is probably the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time. Steven Solomon's brilliant book reveals how today's planetary crisis of freshwater scarcity is recasting the world order and the societies in which we live." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "A sweeping history. . . . Solomon identifies plenty of obstacles to an equitable future, both institutional and geophysical, but remains optimistic that science-born solutions are in the offing. . . . A useful piece for readers interested in natural resources and the geopolitics attendant to them." -- Kirkus Reviews "Steven Solomon has written a riveting historical manifesto on behalf of Water Power. His sweeping narrative, covering centuries, is awe-inspiring. I learned a tremendous amount of usable knowledge from this fine work." -- Douglas Brinkley "Solomon's soaring account of our attempt to manage earth's total environment over millennia never neglects the individuals, inventions, and initiatives pivotal to that effort. Water is the most alarming and compelling call to action I've read since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ." -- Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson "Persuasive. . . . Unique. . . . Solomon surveys the current state of the world's water resources by region, making a compelling case that the U.S. and other leading democracies have untapped strategic advantages that will only become more significant as water becomes scarcer." -- Publishers Weekly "This volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history." -- Bill McKibben " Steve Solomon also defines the critical challenges of water - and the need for new thinking - for nations and peoples around the world, both for today and in the future." --Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power -- Daniel Yergin, author of The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power "Steven Solomon has written a riveting historical manifesto on behalf of Water Power. His sweeping narrative, covering centuries, is awe-inspiring. I learned a tremendous amount of usable knowledge from this fine work." -- Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior "Seeking to inspire us to place a higher value on water and establish wiser approaches to its use, Solomon has created a brilliantly discursive and compelling epic of humankind's most vital resource." -- Booklist (starred review), Steven Solomon has written a riveting historical manifesto on behalf of Water Power. His sweeping narrative, covering centuries, is awe-inspiring. I learned a tremendous amount of usable knowledge from this fine work., Seeking to inspire us to place a higher value on water and establish wiser approaches to its use, Solomon has created a brilliantly discursive and compelling epic of humankind's most vital resource., A tour de force. . . . Thoughtful. . . . Well-written. . . . Solomon shows that when the incentives are right--where governments and markets are allowed to focus on the real costs of and opportunities for using water resources--much better management of water systems follows.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
553.7
Synopsis
Far more than oil, the control of water wealth throughout history has been pivotal to the rise and fall of great powers, the achievements of civilization, the transformations of society's vital habitats, and the quality of ordinary daily lives. In Water, Steven Solomon offers the first-ever narrative portrait of the power struggles, personalities, and breakthroughs that have shaped humanity from antiquity's earliest civilizations, the Roman Empire, medieval China, and Islam's golden age to Europe's rise, the steam-powered Industrial Revolution, and America's century. Today, freshwater scarcity is one of the twenty-first century's decisive, looming challenges and is driving the new political, economic, and environmental realities across the globe. As modern society runs short of its most indispensable resource and the planet's renewable water ecosystems grow depleted, an explosive new fault line is dividing humanity into water Haves and Have-nots. Genocides, epidemic diseases, failed states, and civil warfare increasingly emanate from water-starved, overpopulated parts of Africa and Asia. Water famines threaten to ignite new wars in the bone-dry Middle East. Faltering clean water supplies menace the sustainable growth and ability of China and India to feed themselves. Water scarcity is inseparably interrelated to the global crises of energy, food, and climate change. For Western democracies, water represents no less than the new oil-demanding a major rethink of basic domestic and foreign policies-but also offering a momentous opportunity to relaunch wealth and global leadership through exploiting a comparative advantage in freshwater reserves. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Steven Solomon's Water is a groundbreaking account of man's most critical resource in shaping human destinies, from ancient times to our dawning age of water scarcity., "I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history." --Bill McKibben In Water, esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifying--and all too real--world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of the world. Meticulously researched and undeniably prescient, Water is a stunningly clear-eyed action statement on what Robert F Kennedy, Jr. calls "the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time.", "I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it's a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and there's no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history." --Bill McKibben In Water , esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifying--and all too real--world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of the world. Meticulously researched and undeniably prescient, Water is a stunningly clear-eyed action statement on what Robert F Kennedy, Jr. calls "the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time."
LC Classification Number
CB482.S65 2010
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