River planet : rivers from deep time to the modern crisis / Martin Gibling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibling, Martin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rivers--History.

Rivers.

Water and civilization.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 222 pages : illustrations (color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Rivers in Deep Time

1. Rivers and Geological Time

2. The First Drop of Rain on the Nascent Earth

3. How Plants Bent and Split Rivers

pt. 2 Our Modern Rivers

4. Breaking Pangea: The Ancestral Rivers of Africa

5. Hot and Cold: The River Histories of Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica

6. Young and Restless: The Evolving Rivers of Asia

7. The Conflicted Rivers of Europe

8. The Reversing Rivers of South America

9. Canyons and Cataracts in North America

10. A Canadian Amazon

pt. 3 How the Ice Age Changed Rivers

11. Frozen Out: Northern Rivers Sculpted by Ice

12. Megafloods and Noah's Ark

13. Rivers Drowned by the Sea

pt. 4 Humans and Rivers

14. From Stone Age Streams to River Civilizations

15. The Lost Saraswati River of the Indian Subcontinent

16. Confucian Engineers on the Yellow River of China

pt. 5 Engineered Rivers

17. Dead and Wounded Rivers

18. Collapsing and Closing Dams

19. Between the Dams: An Elegy for the Saskatchewan River

20. Without Spoiling the Land: Rivers and Agriculture

21. London's Buried Rivers

22. Restored Rivers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1780460996

9781780460994

OCLC:

1199129101

Publisher Number:

99988332124