La gestión del agua en España y California

A mediados de los años noventa la publicación del Anteproyecto de Plan Hidrológico Nacional suscitó un sinfín de agudos conflictos, ante el anuncio de nuevas grandes presas —que en muchos casos inundaban pueblos— y grandes trasvases desde el Ebro y el Duero. Buena parte de esos conflictos surgieron en Aragón. Pueblos de montaña, sin tradición alguna de movilización social, se levantaron ante la noticia de que sus valles serían inundados. El presente libro analiza la historia de cinco de estos conflictos: Matarraña, Yesa, Jánovas, Santaliestra y Biscarrués. Un análisis que...

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Anyone who has ever gotten drenched in a rainstorm knows what it is to be dry, but learning to identify objects as dry can be tricky for the youngest learners. This beneficial book teaches readers how to classify familiar objects as wet or dry with short, achievable sentences carefully constructed for vocabulary acquisition. The accessible narrative is accompanied by bright, interesting photographs of the objects.

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Children will be inspired to tell their own stories with this wordless reader, filled with engaging, colorful images that show the typical activities that are part of a young child's day.