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British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

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Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

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Fragile Earth Dramatic Images of Our Changing Planet

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Julia Bucknall(Contributor), John Grace(Contributor), Bill McGuire(Contributor), Patrick Murphy(Contributor), Julianne Zeidler(Contributor)
296 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
Publisher: HarperCollins
Fragile Earth
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  • Fragile Earth ISBN: 9780007455232 Edition: 2 Hardback Sep 2012 Out of Print #199282
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About this book

This unique book provides a striking look at the dramatic changes that are happening to our planet. The second edition of Fragile Earth shows dramatic images of natural disasters, human development and climate change. Alongside the imagery, contributions from leading experts will be shown with maps, graphs and statistics on the major subjects.

Striking images of the following events are included: - Japanese Tsunami - Icelandic volcano - Chilean volcano - United States tornadoes -  Earthquakes in Christchurch and Haiti -  Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

Updated images from the following areas will be shown: - Satellite images of Aral Sea - Up-to-date photographs of North American glaciers - Latest Yellow River satellite images

The full force of the earth still impacts thousands of people every year. News reports are regularly dominated by events that nature has caused despite our advances in technology.

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Biography

Contributions from Julia Bucknall, Sector Manager, Water Department, World Bank, known as the World Bank’s Water Anchor; Professor John Grace, Research Scientist and Environmental Consultant, now Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London, Royal Society Industrial Fellow and Executive Director of Carbon Associates Ltd.; Bill McGuire, Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London, science writer and broadcaster;.Lieutenant Patrick Murphy, member of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps; and Juliane Zeidler, Managing Director of Integrated Environmental Consultants of Namibia (IECN).

Art / Photobook Out of Print
By: Julia Bucknall(Contributor), John Grace(Contributor), Bill McGuire(Contributor), Patrick Murphy(Contributor), Julianne Zeidler(Contributor)
296 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
Publisher: HarperCollins
Media reviews

"'One of the 5 Great Photo Books of the Year"
- Time

" [...] presents horrifying images of changes in our planet wrought by climate change and relentless human development"
- The Independent

" [...] an enlightening view of a changing world"
- Real Travel

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