Jeremy Purseglove, who has worked as an environmentalist in the water industry, and helped pioneer a new approach to reducing floods which also preserved the beauty of rivers explains clearly and convincingly why it's not a good idea to extract as many resources as possible, whether it's the demand for palm oil currently denuding the forests of Borneo, cottonfield irrigation draining the Aral Sea, or monocrops spreading across Britain. The pioneer of engineering projects to preserve nature and landscape, first in Britain and then around the world, he offers fresh insights and solutions at each step.
Working with Nature: Saving and Using the World's Wild Places
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