Taming the Flood: History and Natural History of Rivers and Wetlands

by Tony Soper (Foreword), Jeremy Purseglove (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.25

  This study of wetlands management charts the conflicting demands of conservation, agriculture, and development, and outlines practical proposals for the protection and use of these sensitive ecological habitats.

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.25

  The last forty years have seen the destruction of a huge proportion of flora and fauna in marshes, wet meadows, ponds, and river banks. This has happened largely as a result of enormous public investment in land drainage, carried out by water authorities, councils, and individual farmers. As a practical landscape architect working in the Water Industry, Jeremy Purseglove has been actively involved in building a wider brief for land drainage engineers so that they can enhance, rather than destroy, the heritage of our rivers and wetlands. Taming the Flood draws extensively on this experience, not only analyzing the conflicting demands made on rivers and wetlands, but also outlining practical proposals for their protection and use.