Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This comprehensive book contains contributions from specialists who provide a complete status update along with outstanding issues encompassing different topics related to deep-sea mining.

This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change.

The book presents a critical and comparative analysis of the hydropolitical landscape of African transboundary river basins which, for much of the past century, have been affected by water scarcity.

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

This book contributes to the current discussion on global environmental changes by discussing modifications in marine ecosystems related to global climate changes.

This book familiarises students with the basic elements of fluid mechanics and provides a comprehensive foundation for more advanced courses.

The new edition of this established textbook, now with full colour illustration, has been extensively revised and continues to provide a comprehensive, stimulating, readable and authoritative coverage of freshwater habitats, their communities and their functioning, the world over.

Palaeoclimatology is presently experiencing a period of rapid growth of techniques and concepts.

This is an invitation to readers to ponder universal questions about human relations with rivers and water for the precarious times of the Anthropocene.

Fisheries resources are an important component of natural resources.

This book is the result of comprehensive research work on the various aspects of the West Bengal coast including the world's largest riverine delta system, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta.

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 an overview of the latest advances in applications of nanocomposites in wastewater treatment.

,Too little water or too much'?

This book is the first comprehensive review of the subsurface monitoring theory and practice.

Marine sediments dominate the global seabed, creating the largest ecosystem on earth.

This book explores the historical relationships between human communities and water.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and expertise in humid and arid regions to familiarize readers with the basic scientific philosophy and methods regarding floods and their impacts on human life and property.

The mechanisms and behaviour of the scour process is a challenging subject, and one which is expertly dealt with in this informative, illustrated volume.

Oceans and lakes are characterized by large residence times and can thus be considered as being in an equilibrium or quasi-equilibrium state.

The Mekong Basin in Southeast Asia is one of the largest international river basins in the world.

This book attempts to unlock the intricacies of transforming inland aquaculture into a beacon of sustainability with this indispensable guide.

This book is a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the ICEC 2018 conference, held in Caen, France, in August 2018.

Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services, and their value is increasingly recognised by ecologists.

Selenium (Se) and tellurium (Te) are metalloids of commercial interest due to their physicochemical properties.

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

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed.

Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions.

This book introduces basic and practical information on fertigation to researchers, extension agents and growers.

This book consists of the articles from thespecial issue of Hot Spots in the Climate System in the Journal of Oceanography,Vol.

Science and Engineering of Freak Waves provides a holistic and interdisciplinary view of extreme ocean waves for both scientific and engineering applications.

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This book carefully considers hydrological models which are essential for predicting floods, droughts, soil moisture estimation, land use change detection, geomorphology and water structures.

Nature-based solutions (NbS) are solutions inspired or supported by nature.

Mathematical modelling has become an indispensable tool for engineers, scientists, planners, decision makers and many other professionals to make predictions of future scenarios as well as real impending events.

This book provides an essential overview of ecotechnologies (also known as green infrastructure or nature-based solutions) which are considered to be relatively resilient to variations in stormwater and wastewater inflow.

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.

Simplistic thinking would have us believe that by eliminating the loading of a given pollutant, an aquatic system will revert to its previous pristine state.

Drawing on a combination of modern occurrences and likely ancient counterparts, this atlas is a treatise of mat-related sedimentary features that one may expect to see in ancient terrigenous clastic sedimentary successions.

This book provides an innovative, realistic and reliable solution to the common problem of Indian water and energy sector due to the onset of the Impact of Climate Change and Large-Scale Urbanization.

This outstanding reference book deals with effects of various agricultural practices on ground water quality and usage; and ground water management strategies for protection of ground water affected by agriculture.

Strontium and its isotopes provide solutions to important geologic problems and offer clues about seminal events in Earth history.

Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the world's tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons and reefs teeming with colorful marine life have captured the public imagination.

In line with the Water Framework Directive, this book stresses the need for an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) approach to balance the competing demands on water-domestic, agricultural, industrial, tourism and environmental/ecological- and promote economically efficient, socially equitable and environmentally sustainable water use in selected regions from Southern Europe, the Mediterranean and the developing world.

Desalination Technology: Health and Environmental Impacts covers the latest developments in desalination, examining the environmental and public health-related impacts of these technologies.

This book assesses the effectiveness of changes in watershed interventions in one of the most fragile resource regions of India.

Understanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple fact - contaminants do not respect country borders.

Featuring chapters from the bestselling Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, Second Edition, this resource presents valuable strategies culled from the latest technologies and keen insights of experts in the field.