Water Lands. Fred Pearce

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       COPYRIGHT

      William Collins

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      This eBook edition published by William Collins in 2020

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      Picture research by Caroline Cortizo at Shifting Pixels

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      Source ISBN: 9780008390495

      eBook Edition © February 2020 ISBN: 9780008405120

      Version: 2020-02-05

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

      COPYRIGHT

      FOREWORD

      INTRODUCTION: EVERLASTING SWAMPS

      UPLANDS AND COLD LANDS

       RUOERGAI PLATEAU, CHINA: Rewetting bogs on the roof of the world

       PARAMO DE SUNTARBAN, COLOMBIA: The secrets of Andean grasslands

       LAKE LOKTAK, INDIA: How hydropower broke the mirror of Manipur

       RIFT VALLEY, ETHIOPIA: East African lakes drained for a Valentine rose

       MOSCOW PEATLANDS, RUSSIA: From peat mines to bog wilderness

       SIBERIAN MIRES: Permafrost thawing and carbon under threat

      RIVER FLOODPLAINS

       ENGLISH FENS AND THE AMERICAN MIDWEST: Land grabs in ‘dismal swamps’

       PANTANAL, BRAZIL: A future for the world’s largest wetland

       RUPUNUNI, GUYANA: How to map the glistening grasslands

       TONLE SAP, CAMBODIA: Reversing river is the beating heart of the Mekong

       LAKE CHAD, WEST AFRICA: Dams, dykes and an international refugee crisis

       INNER NIGER DELTA, MALI: Desert jewel on the brink

       SUDD SWAMP AND MESOPOTAMIAN MARSHES: Refuges in times of conflict

       RIVER RHINE, EUROPE: River ‘rectification’ replaced by ‘making room for the river’

      INLAND SEAS, SWAMPS AND SUMPS

       SALTON SEA, CALIFORNIA: Celebrating artificial and accidental wetlands

       LAKES PRESPA AND OHRID, BALKANS: Wetland truce brings wider peace

       ARAL SEA, CENTRAL ASIA: What happens when a sea dies

       CUVETTE CENTRALE, CONGO: Jungle swamps and a climate time bomb

      COASTAL DELTAS AND LAGOONS

       RUFIJI DELTA, TANZANIA: Restoring wetland rights for wise use

       MISSISSIPPI DELTA, LOUISIANA: Ol’ man river keeps on rolling

       KERALA, INDIA: Crazy backwaters in ‘God’s own country’

       VENICE, ITALY: When a coastal lagoon becomes an ocean bay

       ACEH, INDONESIA: Mangroves to fight the next tsunami

       BAY OF BENGAL, SOUTH ASIA: Absorbing cyclones in India and Bangladesh

       WADDEN SEA, NETHERLANDS: Breaking dykes to stop the ocean

       FLORIDA EVERGLADES, USA: Start of a blue carbon revolution

       JAVA, INDONESIA: ‘God willing we plan to stay’

      CONCLUSION: GROUNDSWELL

      END NOTES

      INDEX

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      CREDITS

      THE AUTHORS

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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