Hydrology and the hydrosphere

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

This book provides a one-stop shop for coastal and marine scientists to understand processes that generate atmospheric circulation as integrated with terrestrial and oceanic circulation processes to create an Earth-ocean-atmosphere climate system.

Though the modern Spanish State was formed in the mid Fifteenth Century, historical records show that water works, statues, and the utilization of water dates back to centuries BC.

The inadvertent transfer of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens in the ballast water of ships has been determined to have caused a significant adverse impact to many of the world's coastal regions.

There's something about introductory textbooks that can be fundamentally misleading.

The California Current--part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre--flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico.

This book summarises the recent, and future, sustainable, low-cost, environment-friendly and efficient systems for clean water production, to solve clean water crisis.

Eustatic High-Frequency Sea Level Cycles and Habitat Heterogeneity: Basinal-Regional-Global Implications presents the current understanding and future directions of the research on Cretaceous sea level cycles in a single source.

This book presents an in-depth, science-based approach to applying key project-management and spatial tools and practices in environmental projects.

Advances in high spatial resolution mapping capabilities and the new rules established by the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States for the operation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) have provided new opportunities to acquire aerial data at a lower cost and more safely versus other methods.

A cutting-edge introduction to coastal wetlands and their applications, for students on related earth and life science courses and researchers.

In this second volume, various materials such as Magnetic-based biocomposites, wheat bran/straw-based biomaterials, peel-based biomaterials, luffa Based Biomaterials, composite polymeric membranes, rice husk, hydroxyapatite etc for treating textile waste water are highlighted.

This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution.

This book is a ready reckoner of recent information regarding the impact of leachate landfills, leachate treatment, and heavy metals on a single platform.

Coastal Defences aims to present the broad spectrum of methods that engineers use to protect the coastline and investigates the sorts of issues that can arise as a result.

The book examines environmental issues and their solutions with advancements in biotechnology and nanotechnology.

This book introduces a variety of the latest researches that are related to smart devices, machine learning algorithms, and the Internet of things that are applied for a sustainable environment.

The group of non-regulated contaminants termed "e;emerging contaminants"e; mainly comprises products used in large quantities in everyday life, such as human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, personal care products, surfactants and surfactant residues, plasticizers and various industrial additives.

Originally published in Russian in 2006, this is the first English translation of this important book on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology.

This book provides a cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary assessment of the major verticals of Blue Economy relevant to the mangrove ecosystem in Indian Sundarbans, which is a deltaic complex at the apex of Bay of Bengal.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have an important role in marine conserva- tion programmes around the world.

Dieses Buch vermittelt die notwendigen volkswirtschaftlichen und privatwirtschaftlichen Grundlagen zur Beurteilung wasserwirtschaftlicher Projekte.

This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelling of radioactivity dispersion in the marine environment.

Time Series Methods in Hydrosciences

In Iran, climate change combined with low adaptation capacity has an unparalleled impact on eco-systems as well as human livelihoods.

This book demonstrates the prospects for enhancing thickening or dewatering of sewage sludges and outlines some of the methods which might come into consideration.

This book, through its 19 chapters, highlights success stories, research outputs and various government schemes and actions taken on groundwater recharge and rainwater harvesting in developing countries.

Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay.

Forty percent of the world's population depends upon increasingly scarce and shared water resources.

This practical book, co-published with the National Environmental Health Association, describes the step-by-step procedures needed to avoid common pitfalls in septic system technology.

Spanning the last 50 years of fisheries policy in Europe, this book is the parting contribution and career-spanning reflection from one of Europe's most renowned social scientists working in the field of fisheries management and policy.

This book reviews the hydrogeology of karst systems, starting with the classifications from the applied point of view, and then the hydraulic parameters (porosity, permeability, and transmissivity).

Groundwater is the world's largest source of fresh water, but its safe and sustainable exploitation remains a challenge.

A unique interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, including global hazards and case-studies, for researchers, graduate students and professionals.

This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather.

Tsunamis like the Indian Ocean tsunami caused by the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004 or the Chilean earthquake in the Pacific Ocean in 1960 motivate international collaborations for the development of tsunami warning systems.

This book is an important addition to the knowledge of lobster research.

This book provides an overview of ninety key concepts which often trouble those who are new to researching within the social sciences.

Climate change is widely agreed to be one the greatest challenges facing society today.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

This highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth.

Climate change not only involves rising temperatures but it can also alter the hydro-meteorological parameters of a region and the corresponding changes emerging in the various biotic or abiotic environmental features.

The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system.

This comprehensive dictionary covers wastewater processes, pollution control, and every major area of environmental engineering used in industry.

Presenting a novel approach to wave theory, this book applies mathematical modeling to the investigation of sea waves.

This book, first published in 1902, is the product of the detailed geological survey undertaken by the Borneo Expedition of the late nineteenth century.

This book offers a first-of-its-kind, standalone review of coalbed methane (CBM) in India, covering all the major technical and policy aspects.

This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale.

This book examines the political economy that governs the management of international transboundary river basins in the developing world.