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Vetenskap & teknik
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Rivers of the Asian Highlands
Ruth Gamble • Gillian G Tan • Hongzhang Xu • Sara Beavis • Petra Maurer
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Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asias eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputras highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateaus east through the Hengduan Mountains. This book guides its readers through these two rivers physical, environmental, cultural, social, and political histories before providing a multi-faceted assessment of their present. It uses general and detailed insights from multiple disciplines, including anthropology, conservation, geomorphology, climate science, ecology, history, hydrology, and religious studies. The rivers stories explain how the catchments hazardsearthquakes, landslides, floods, droughts, and erosioninteract with their energetic, hydrological, ecological, cultural, and social abundance. The books multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives on the rivers will be of interest to anyone wants to understand the rivers of this critically important region as the environment faces climate change and other ecological crises.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9781032490595
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 336
- Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-27
- Förlag: Routledge