HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Birkhold, Matthew H., author.
Subjects
Icebergs -- Utilization.
Water-supply.
Water security.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Birkhold, Matthew H., author.
by title:
Chasing icebergs : h...
MARC Display
Chasing icebergs : how frozen freshwater can save the planet / Matthew H. Birkhold.
by
Birkhold, Matthew H., author.
New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2023.
Subjects
Icebergs -- Utilization.
Water-supply.
Water security.
ISBN:
9781639363438 (hardcover) :
1639363432 (hardcover)
Description:
xi, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus Books edition.
Contents:
Prologue -- Introduction: A quixotic fantasy? -- Battling bergs -- How to capture frozen freshwater -- Squeezing profits from ice -- Icebergs for the mass market -- Bending the global arc -- Situating icebergs -- The law of icebergs -- Conclusion: making the dream a reality.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"Harvesting icebergs for drinking water is not a new idea. But for the first time in human history, doing so on a massive global scale is both increasingly feasible and necessary for our survival. Chasing Icebergs delivers a kaleidoscopic history of humans' relationship with icebergs, and offers an urgent assessment of the technological, cultural, and legal obstacles we must overcome to harness this freshwater resource"--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult New Books
551.342 Bi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
North Kohala Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
551.342 Bi
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.