Hydrology and the hydrosphere

In many countries, considerable uncertainty still exists about the contribution of drinking water to sporadic cases of disease.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 is considered to have been one of the worst natural disasters in history, affecting twelve countries, from Indonesia to Somalia.

The main objective of this research was to optimize the electron donor supply in sulphate reducing bioreactors treating sulphate rich wastewater.

This book documents some of the perceptions, strategies, and actions of natural resource agencies in the twenty-first century as they seek to respond to the changed reality influencing their policies and practices.

This book comprises select proceedings of the First International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering (ICGCE 2018).

This book is an unique integrated treatise, on the concepts of fractional calculus as models with applications in hydrology, soil science and geomechanics.

This book presents the most recent innovative studies in the field of water resources for arid areas to move towards more sustainable management of the resources.

This title was originally published in 1965.

While most books examine only the classical aspects of hydrology, this three-volume set covers multiple aspects of hydrology, and includes contributions from experts from more than 30 countries.

This book demonstrates the variability and extension of environmental pollutants in water and wastewater, besides with recent technological developments in wastewater treatment.

This book focuses on how marine systems respond to natural and anthropogenic perturbations (ENSO, overfishing, pollution, tourism, invasive species, climate-change).

This book examines the intricate web linking water science and society using diverse philosophical lenses.

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

Based on the material presented at a conference organized by the Centre d'Oceanologie of Marseille, held in 2008, this text covers a wealth of hot topics related to the way mankind interacts with the marine environment.

Throughout British history rivers have been of profound economic, social and cultural importance yet as we see with increasing frequency they have the potential to wreak great destruction.

 This work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt.

Phycoremediation is an alternative method of water and wastewater remediation, which includes the use of algae for treatment, and is an environmentally friendly and sustainable technology.

This unique book provides a multidisciplinary review of current, climate-change research projects at universities around the globe, offering perspectives from all of the natural and social sciences.

Text on coastal engineering and oceanography covering theory and applications intended to mitigate shoreline erosion.

Turbulence is a dangerous topic which is often at the origin of serious fights in the scientific meetings devoted to it since it represents extremely different points of view, all of which have in common their complexity, as well as an inability to solve the problem.

The Arctic and its surrounding marginal seas are considered some of the most sensitive elements of the global environment, which may respond rapidly to climate change.

Coastal areas are commonly defined as the interface or transition areas between land and sea, including large inland lakes.

Hydrometry presents a thorough introduction to the science of hydrometry: the measurement of flow in open channels.

Soils and sediments influence current processes, preserve evidence of past processes, indicate evolutionary phases in landscapes and provide a basis for relative and absolute chronologies.

This comprehensive book provides a unique overview of advances in the biology and ecology of marine protists.

This volume presents geological, geographical, environmental, and agriculture related studies on rivers, focusing on basins of the three geomorphic divisions of India, i.

Fully updated and expanded into two volumes, the new edition of Groundwater Contamination explains in a comprehensive way the sources for groundwater contamination, the regulations governing it, and the technologies for abating it.

This book highlights the need for effective water governance in India given the fact that the country has been facing serious water stress in recent years.

Data Presentation with SPSS Explained provides students with all the information they need to conduct small scale analysis of research projects using SPSS and present their results appropriately in their reports.

These notes are restricted to those geochemical methods which have been used to quantify rates of groundwater recharge.

Elegant, novel explanation of climate change, emphasizing physical understanding and concepts, while avoiding complex mathematics, supported by excellent color illustrations.

This textbook introduces research on dinosaurs by describing the science behind how we know what we know about dinosaurs.

This work aims to present the practical application of an IoT model that can be used as the solution to the problems of water facilities.

From the bestselling author of Breath, a fascinating, informative, exhilarating voyage from the oceans surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal)New York Times Book ReviewEditors ChoiceAn Amazon Best Science Book of 2014Scientific AmericanRecommended ReadFascinatedby the sport of freedivingin which competitors descendgreat depths on a single breathJames Nestor embeds with a gang of oceangoing extreme athletes and renegade researchers.

This book gathers the main international research findings on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as emerging contaminants in water.

This book outlines the current status of water resources management in Central Asia countries, and provides a review of the history, policies and transboundary cooperation regarding water resources in the region.

This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals.

This book provides state-of-the-art guidance on groundwater modelling to meet the challenges of water management in arid and semi-arid areas.

This book presents the phylogeny, taxonomy and biogeography of freshwater red algae.

This book provides accurate and integrated information about land resources especially with the accelerated progress of information technology to help Egypt and similar countries to achieve the country sustainable development goals in the field of agriculture and natural resources.

Increasing population, expanding industry and commerce, and tourism are placing added pressures on an already highly-utilized coastal zone.

Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning basic soil physics and its application to environment, soil health, water quality and productivity, this book provides readers with a clear coverage of the basic principles of water and solute transport through vadose zone, the theory behind transport and step-by-step guidance on how to use current computer models in the public domain along with soil erosion and contaminant remediation.

Data assimilation is the combination of information from observations and models of a particular physical system in order to get the best possible estimate of the state of that system.

This book offers an overview of the key debates in the burgeoning anthropological literature on resource extraction.

The book is a compilation of the papers presented in the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (ETWREE 2017).

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

Water and wastewater infrastructure are a somewhat invisible, yet critical, part of modern life.

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.

The Nile River and its basin extend over a distinctive geophysical cord connecting eleven sovereign states from Egypt to Tanzania, which are home to an estimated population of 422.