Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Article 76 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea lays down the rules and regulations governing claims to a continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles for the 130 coastal States and entities that have ratified or acceded to it.

The world's activated carbon market volume has increased rapidly in recent years due to environmental regulations.

In this book, key discoveries in the field of statistical ocean acoustics over the last 35 years are addressed with illustrations from ocean observations.

This book examines in detail the health of India's Haora River, which is of vital importance as the lifeline of Agartala, the Capital City of Tripura.

Integrated Coastal Management in the Japanese Satoumi: Restoring Estuaries and Bays provides an in-depth exploration of the integrated costal management (ICM) used in the Japanese Satoumi.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the detection and processing of signals in underwater acoustics.

This edited book has been designed to serve as a natural resources engineering reference book as well as a supplemental textbook.

This unique richly-illustrated account of the landforms and geology of the world's coasts, presented in a country-by-country (state-by-state) sequence, assembles a vast amount of data and images of an endangered and increasingly populated and developed landform.

This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region.

Thisbook focuses on the recent results of the research project funded by aGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (No.

At numerous times throughout the year, thousands of people gather along the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire to see one of the wonders of the natural world.

The science-policy interface is critical to the design and implementation of water policies.

Climate change will present a series of challenges to engineers concerned with the provision of both building internal appliance drainage networks and rainwater systems within the building boundary, generally identified as the connection to the sewer network.

Das Buch schließt einerseits die Lücke zwischen den angewandten Bauingenieur-Hydraulik-Büchern (Bollrich, Zanke, Schröder) und den Strömungsmechanik-Standardwerken wie Schlichting oder Truckenbrodt und ist andererseits als Kurs konzipiert.

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades.

This Brief reports on heat transfer from a solid boundary in a saturated porous medium.

This book examines the relationship between natural resource management, sustainable development, and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction, conflict resolution, capacity building, climate change adaptation and resilience, citizen engagement and ecological conservation.

Satellite Monitoring of Inland and Coastal Water Quality: Retrospection, Introspection, Future Directions reviews how aquatic optics models can convert remote determinations of water color into accurate assessments of water quality.

This book presents a model for describing the hierarchical concept of China's water rights structure, one which takes into account pioneering theories on natural resources and environmental institutional economics.

Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This thesis examines the feasibility of using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as a viable disinfectant.

An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the fresh waters of Britain and Ireland.

Hydrologythe science of wateris central to our understanding of the global environment and its many problems.

A 2005 edition of successful textbook for advanced students and reference book for practising glaciologists.

This book discusses the role of energy in agriculture which reaches 30%, and the role of agriculture in energy where the water shred by 17% in total electricity generation in addition to the role of bioenergy as a source of liquid energy.

This book presents a number of modeling studies of various water resources systems in the humid tropics and the typical short, steep mountain-to-coast systems in the archipelagic setting of the Philippines.

This book offers an introduction to the theory and practice of ecological wisdom (EW).

This book brings together contributions from experts in water management, scientists, researchers, academics and lecturers, sharing  experiences and successes in this field.

This book includes a selection of the best papers presented at the Jinan Forum on Geography and Ecological Sustainability held in Guangzhou, China, from 17 to 19 February 2017, as well as several invited papers.

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference, Lyon, France, 27-29 June 1990.

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quality, evapotranspiration, water resource management, and ecological services.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

This book mainly provides the current status of water pollution faced by China under rapid changing environment and the actions that have been taken for prevention and treatment of water pollution.

Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Explortion has two major goals: (i) to present signal processing algorithms that take into account the models of acoustic propagation in the ocean and; (ii) to give a perspective of the broad set of techniques, problems, and applications arising in ocean exploration.

A systematic, unifying approach to the dynamics of the ocean and atmosphere is given in this book, with emphasis on the larger-scale motions (from a few kilometers to global scale).

From explanations of laws and regulations to hands-on design and operation-the Handbook has it covered!

The book is based on stochastic theory of sediment motion, particularly the theory of transition intensities.

This book includes a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2023 conference, held in EDF Lab Chatou, France, with the support of  Societe Hydrotechnique de France (SHF), the Association Francaise de Mecanique (AFM), the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), and the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR).

This is a major compendium of the existing knowledge of the ecology and management of tidal marshes by some of the leading experts in the field.

This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones.

This book contains the most recent progress in data assimilation in meteorology, oceanography and hydrology including land surface.

This book highlights the institutional, legal, and policy measures to manage water pollution in India, and discusses how effective they have been in improving the overall quality of the country's surface and groundwater resources.

Archaeological Oceanography is the definitive book on the newly emerging field of deep-sea archaeology.

These proceedings record the results of climate change in many areas which are hyper-arid deserts today but which, almost cyclically, at intervals of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years, have had a much more humid climate.

Soil-crop-atmosphere interactions play a central role in well with the interest of agro-meteorologists, who the multiple functions of rural landscapes.

A comprehensive view of icebergs and their interaction with the ocean and climate, from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics.