Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book presents some of the work presented at the 3rd International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability-ICoWEFS 2023, with topics delving into critical global themes.

Floods and droughts are climate extremes that account for more than 80% of people affected by natural disasters worldwide.

This volume addresses hospital effluents in terms of their composition and the management and treatment strategies currently (being) adopted around the globe.

The book follows on from "e;The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile"e; GERD.

Chromatography of Natural, Treated and Waste Waters is the first book to bring together information of a range of chromatographic techniques in all types of water, precipitation to sewage effluents.

Barrier islands represent a complex coastal system that includes a number of different sedimentary depositional environments; nearshore zone, beach, dunes, washover fans, marshes, tidal flats, estuaries, lagoons, and tidal inlets.

The comprehensive and compact presentation in this book is the perfect format for a resource/textbook for undergraduate students in the areas of Agricultural Engineering, Biological Systems Engineering, Bio-Science Engineering, Water Resource Engineering, and Civil & Environmental Engineering.

This book discusses how aquatic microbial communities develop interactive metabolic coordination both within and between species to optimize their energetics.

This book targets the issue of water scarcity in Egypt as a typical example of the world water crisis.

This book highlights the relationship between the water sector and various other sectors in order to establish an improved understanding of the importance of water resources as an essential cross-cutting vector of socio-economic development.

This new edition is a major revision of the popular introductory reference on hydrology and watershed management principles, methods, and applications.

This volume is a collection of a selected number of articles based on presentations at the 2005 L'Aquila (Italy) Summer School on the topic of "e;Hydrologic Modeling and Water Cycle: Coupling of the Atmosphere and Hydrological Models"e;.

Nitrate Handbook: Environmental, Agricultural, and Health Effects provides an overview of the entire nitrate cycle and the processes influencing nitrate transformation.

This reference for engineers, and graduate students covers sediment transport and morphodynamics modelling in nearshore environments.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advances in Environmental Sustainability, Energy and Earth Science (AESEE-2024), held on March 14 - 16, in Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Polymer-Carbonaceous Filler Based Composites for Wastewater Treatment serves as the first book to offer a concise treatment of the use of these materials in the treatment of wastewater.

The ever evolving technology of waterproofing presents challenges and risks for architects and engineers who do not specialize in the field.

The high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic, together with some mountainous areas with glaciers and long-lasting snow, are sometimes called the cryosphere-defined as that portion of the planet where water is perennially or seasonally frozen as sea ice, snow cover, permafrost, ice sheets, and glaciers.

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river.

In an increasingly urbanized world, water systems must be designed and operated according to innovative standards in terms of climate adaptation, resource efficiency, sustainability and resilience.

There's so much we don't know about what lies deep beneath the ocean's surface - and the time to find out is growing increasingly precious .

Effective marine biodiversity conservation is dependent upon a clear scientific rationale for practical interventions.

In hard rock terrain, shallow water wells generally have a poor to moderate yield.

This United Nations report examines the current state of knowledge of the world''s oceans, for policymakers, and provides a reference for marine science courses.

This book deals with the sustainability of agriculture on the Black Earth by drawing on data from long-term field experiments.

The ever-increasing number of pollutants released into the environment drives the search for new treatment technologies or the modification of existing ones.

Effluents generated from the pharmaceutical industry contain organic and inorganic contaminants that create potential threats to human health and the environment.

The growth of the terrorism threat to the nation's security has created significant strategic challenges for U.

This book discusses new and innovative trends and techniques in the removal of toxic and refractory pollutants by means of various microbial biotechnology processes from wastewater, both on the laboratory and industrial scales.

This book provides a survey of technologies available to tackle the problems associated with climate change in the energy, water and food security nexus with a special focus on the Middle East.

This new textbook on remote sensing and digital image processing of natural resources includes numerous, practical problem-solving exercises and applications of sensors and satellite systems using remote sensing data collection resources, and emphasizes the free and open-source platform R.

This book covers advances in the field of karst from a variety of perspectives to facilitate knowledge and promote interaction between disciplines.

For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdomand warmth of Nursing Your Baby.

Sea ice is a major component of polar environments, especially in the Arctic where it covers the entire Arctic Ocean throughout most of the year.

Sewer systems fall into the category "e;out of sight, out of mind"e; - they seldom excite interest.

This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean.

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 48

Diatoms are the most species rich group of algae, and they contribute about 20% of annual global carbon fixation.

The approach of this book is how-to-do and hands-on.

The book focuses broadly on the preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems in India with a focus on their operation, maintenance, and management of the canal systems.

This book presents an exploration of linkages among soil-water, agriculture, and climate change with a special focus on thematic areas for assessment, mitigation, and management of natural resources under climate change conditions.

Based on the author's more than 35 years of experience, Particles in Water: Properties and Processes examines particles and their behavior in water systems.

This volume presents up-to-date information on the status and assessment of water resources in Slovakia and methods for their development.

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.

This book offers a comprehensive review of disinfection by-products (DBPs), exploring various aspects from detection methods and precursors to their potential health risks, regulation, and future implications.

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.

This authoritative guide enables accurate identification of the common components of the inshore benthic invertebrates of the British Isles and adjacent European coasts, as well as a substantial proportion of fish species.

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking).