To the Mouths of the Ganges
An Ecological and Cultural Journey
West Bengal and Bangladesh - nowhere else on earth is so much poverty concentrated and nature so demanding. To the Mouths of the Ganges deals with the ecology and culture of the lower Ganges delta, home to 150 million people whose land is traversed by thousands of miles of rivers and canals; where rivers change course and devour whole villages overnight; where floods submerge millions of acres of cropland at a time; where cyclones create mayhem on a grand scale; and where the human impact of global warming is so visible.Frederic Thomas describes how crop irrigation and flood control have degraded the natural environment; how commercial shrimp…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78869-069-0
- EAN: 9781788690690
- Produktnummer: 24521860
- Verlag: Eastbridge Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 238 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 351 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 351
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