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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Rivers through the ages -- 3. The making and shaping of Britain's rivers -- 4. Assessing the health of rivers -- 5. River plants -- 6. Plants of riverbanks, floodplains and valley sides -- 7. Small creatures without backbones -- 8. Fish, amphibians and reptiles -- 9. Birds and mammals -- 10. A comparison of three rivers: the Meon, Dee and Endrick -- 11. Caring for our rivers once again -- References and further reading -- Abbreviations -- English and scientific species names -- Index -- Illustration acknowledgements

"Our everyday lives are filled with a massive flow of information that we must interpret in order to understand the world we live in. Considering this complex variety of data floating around us, sometimes the best -- or even only -- way to communicate is visually. This unique book presents a fascinating perspective on the subject, highlighting the work of the masters of the profession who have created a number of breakthroughs that have changed the way we communicate. Information Graphics has been conceived and designed not just for graphics professionals, but for anyone interested in the history and practice of communicating visually. The in-depth introductory section, illustrated with over 60 images (each accompanied by an explanatory caption), features essays by Sandra Rendgen, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Richard Saul Wurman, and Simon Rogers; looking back all the way to primitive cave paintings as a means of communication, this introductory section gives readers an excellent overview of the subject. The second part of the book is entirely dedicated to contemporary works by today's most renowned professionals, presenting 200 graphics projects, with over 400 examples -- each with a fact sheet and an explanation of methods and objectives -- divided into chapters by the subjects Location, Time, Category, and Hierarchy."--Publisher description

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AbstractThis paper presents a study of 10 English chalk streams in the River Thames Basin historically affected by abstraction of groundwater. Using macroinvertebrates, macrophytes and river discharge records from across 76 monitoring sites, and spanning the period 1992–2009 we assess how the communities change over time. River discharge is seen to be the most influential variable in biological community composition, and is used to calculate the annual average river discharge (in m3/s) needed to sustain different biological assemblages at each study site, from the lowest to the highest expression of fluvial aquatic community development. This represents a bottom‐up or site‐specific approach to the determination of ecological flow thresholds, from which more empirical trends may be inferred at regional level. The approach also provides a useful understanding of the timescales involved in the recovery of communities from drought.

The Centre for Energy Policy held a Roundtable on the potential value to the political economy of carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS), in the margins of the Global CCUS Summit held in Edinburgh. This note summarises discussions and reflects on next steps. Participants are listed in the appendix. This note does not attribute comments or views to particular participants. Professor Graeme Sweeney chaired the Roundtable, with Professor Karen Turner, Director of the Centre for Energy Policy, kick-starting the discussion with a presentation on recent research on the potential value of CCUS to the political economy.