Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book provides a detailed and a clear picture about the impact of climate changes on all aspects of our lives.

Electricity offers a complete introduction to the nature of electricity for those who want to know more about electricity but do not find the time to struggle through complicated handbooks.

The continued lack of access to adequate amounts of safe drinking water is one of the primary causes of infant morbidity and mortality worldwide and a serious situation which governments, international agencies and private organizations are striving to alleviate.

An ideal multidisciplinary introduction to the key global phenomenon of mid-ocean ridges, for graduate and advanced undergraduate students and professionals.

Seawater desalination is a coastal-based industry.

This book gathers the most recent research findings on ecology and conservation of marine vertebrates in Latin America, making use of high technological methods to show readers the diversity of the marine research that has been conducted in these countries over the last decades.

This book provides unique insights into the complex issue of water security in South Africa.

This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach.

In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply.

This book deals with the economic modelling of water at the global, national and sub-national levels.

This graduate and advanced undergraduate textbook systematically addresses all core topics in physical and engineering acoustics.

Originally published in 1972.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

This book covers the latest technologies and challenges for water reuse and unconventional water resources.

This is the first of two volumes that, taken together, provide an integrated picture of the environmental consequences arising from international conflicts.

Research of the origins of life in connection with a marine environment started at the end of the seventies, when the `black smokers' in the Pacific were discovered and the Red Sea deep hydrothermal brines were found to be a fruitful environment for abiotic synthesis of life precursors.

This book aims to present the overall existing tsunami hazard in the Caribbean Sea region, a region which is typically only associated with hurricanes.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of hydroacoustics and describes the physical basis of acoustic processes observed in the sea.

This comprehensive handbook provides a detailed and unique overview of current thinking about marine governance in the context of global environmental change.

Rural-Urban Water Struggles compiles diverse analyses of rural-urban water connections, discourses, identities and struggles evolving in the context of urbanization around the world.

John Lyman Book PrizeFrom whaling museums to National Geographic television specials to "e;tiki bars,"e; the high seas have enchanted modern Americans as an adventurous frontier.

The foundation of quantitative genetics theory was developed during the last century and facilitated many successful breeding programs for cultivated plants and t- restrial livestock.

New scientific discoveries in the Congo Basin as a result of international collaborations The Congo is the world's second largest river basin and home to 120 million people.

Evaluating the effectiveness of conventional wet processes for cleaning silicon wafers in semiconductor production, this reference reveals concrete measures to improve ultrapure water quality reviewing the structure and physical characteristics of ultrapure water molecules.

Surface, intermediate, and deep-water processes and their interaction in time and space drive the major ocean circulation of the Mediterranean Sea.

This book highlights the development of lake systems and water reservoirs as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries.

Measuring sea-level change be that rise or fall is one of the most pressing scientific goals of our time and requires robust scientific approaches and techniques.

This book summarizes the advanced sustainable trends in removing toxic pollutants by environmental and biotechnological processes from both industrial wastewater and sewage wastewater.

This book analyzes how major events such as the recent pandemic crisis, wars around the world and climate change, have affected agricultural production and the direct food supply.

Microbial systems have a strong potential to develop green and sustainable technologies, including sources of renewable energy, alternative fuels, and biosynthetic materials for sustainable applications.

Seascape Ecology provides a comprehensive look at the state-of-the-science in the application of landscape ecology to the seas and provides guidance for future research priorities.

This book offers a practical guidance for environmental engineers and scientists charged with assessing the cause-and-effect of pollutants in receiving water systems.

This book describes factors affecting the accumulation, melting and runoff of water from seasonal snowpacks.

This book discusses the development of the decision support system for groundwater pollution assessment, one of the first integrated information systems in the field of hydrogeology, reflecting the purpose of knowledge encapsulation in the field of groundwater quality management.

An overview of critical conceptual approaches to water justice, illustrated with global historic and contemporary case studies of socio-environmental struggles.

An interdisciplinary study of the Kuroshio nutrient stream The surface water of the Kuroshio, a western boundary current in the North Pacific Ocean, is nutrient-depleted and has relatively low primary productivity, yet abundant fish populations are supported in the region.

Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes?

This book presents unique connectivity between waste management within the agenda 2030 of India.

This book presents a complete account of the 19th century German immigrant Edward Cordell, a hydrographer who discovered a major seamount that was designated the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

This volume reviews the oil inputs to the Mediterranean Sea from sources such as shipping, offshore oil installations, and oil refineries, presented in a number of national case studies.

Provides a quantitative, accessible approach to the fundamental physics and biology of the coastal ocean, for undergraduate and graduate students.

Sound has become a major tool for studying the ocean.

Once a prosperous region, the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basin-inhabited by about a tenth of the world's population-is currently one of the poorest.

One of the effects of global climate change is the increasing variability of extreme flood events and cyclones.

This book unifies and enhances the accessibility of contemporary scholarly research on advances in coastal modeling.

India is endowed with varied topographical features, such as high mountains, extensive plateaus, and wide plains traversed by mighty rivers.

Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid offers a bottom-to-top tour of the world's oceans, exposing the secrets hidden therein from a variety of scientific perspectives.

L’exploration et l’exploitation des grands fonds marins comptent à peine deux siècles, et les premières incursions humaines en profondeur datent seulement des années 1930.