Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Building on the success of its 1993 predecessor, this second edition of Geochemistry, Groundwater and Pollution has been thoroughly re-written, updated and extended to provide a complete and authoritative account of modern hydrogeochemistry.

Most industrial and hazardous waste management resources cover the major industries and provide conventional in-plant pollution control strategies.

An intimate account of the beauty, mystery, and amazing science of the ocean.

This book presents practical hydraulic and river engineering research along with fluvial geomorphological concepts, and links the theoretical and practical knowledge of people working every day with rivers, streams, and hydraulic structures to fluvial geomorphology.

Synthesizes Decades of Research on Vernal Pools SciencePulling together information from a broad array of sources, Science and Conservation of Vernal Pools in Northeastern North America is a guide to the issues and solutions surrounding seasonal pools.

This bibliography reflects the tremendous growth of interest in groundwater, which has occurred in recent years, dealing with a particular aspect of the field of hydrogeology.

Intertidal mudflats are distinct, highly-productive marine habitats which provide important ecosystem services to the land-sea interface.

Calcium and magnesium are abundant in groundwater, but the role of groundwater as the essential source of these important nutrients is very often neglected.

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.

This book is about the enactment, adaption, and ultimately fragmentation of government policy regarding the use of water in the American west.

This book brings together a diverse group of researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by fluoride contamination of water bodies.

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have been intensified by climate change and have generated unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows worldwide.

This text covers the proceedings of the third International Symposium - TISAR 98, held in Amsterdam.

This book examines water resource management in China's electric power sector and the implications for energy provision in the face of an emerging national water crisis and global climate change.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

This book explores water resources management issues in China and possible solutions.

The study of estuaries and coasts has seen enormous growth in recent years, since changes in these areas have a large effect on the food chain, as well as on the physics and chemistry of the ocean.

This book focuses on the ways in which military installations and small cities can implement and integrate triple net planning and energy, water, and waste sustainability strategies into broad installation operational management, arrive at the best decision, create policy and communicate effectively to stakeholders.

The behaviour of river systems is a result of the complex interaction between flow, sediments, morphology and habitats.

Turbulent Jets

In this volume, the erosion and conservation measures discussed are, for the most part, those under unirrigated agriculture.

With many worked examples, this book provides step-by-step instruction for all calculations required for wastewater treatment.

This book places contemporary problems of ocean use management in historical context beginning with the time of Hugo Grotius, whose seminal 1609 work The Freedom of the Seas was the basis of ocean law for the next three centuries.

This book presents the latest results related to photocatalytic inactivation/killing of microorganisms, which is a promising alternative disinfection method that produces less or even no disinfection byproduct.

This volume sheds new light on the marine fauna and geological setting of the Tjornes Sequence, North Iceland, which is a classic site for the Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the North Atlantic region.

The focus of this work is the development of models to estimate evapotranspiration (ET), investigating the partitioning between soil evaporation and plant transpiration at field and regional scales, and calculating ET over heterogeneous vegetated surfaces.

This book reviews the globally important freshwater resource of the Great Lakes, which is currently threatened by contaminants that compromise water quality and impact its ecological and economic health.

The unit process approach, common in the field of chemical engineering, was introduced about 1962 to the field of environmental engineering.

Urban climate adaptation currently focusses mainly on hazards but often ignores opportunities which arise in both space and time.

Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America brings together information on the natural history, ecology and systematics of North American aquatic monocotyledons.

Originally published in 1990 and designed as a student text, The British Seas is a clear introduction to the oceanography and resources of the region.

This book provides state-of-the art analysis, never done before in Egypt, on agro-climatic zones level.

This book examines the issues at stake in transboundary water governance, it spotlights the Rhone River, a biophysical entity of enormous historical, political and economic importance.

This standalone handbook is an ideal companion for researchers as well as engineers involved in design of offshore systems.

As government and community leaders, private companies, citizens, and applied scientists search for low-cost methods to cleanup environmental pollution, phytotechnologies can contribute to the solution by utilizing natural processes to reduce environmental risk.

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.

This book covers the full spectrum of water and environment conservation, offering management lessons, identifying the barriers to transformative change, and then presenting agendas and initiatives for sustainable global water and environment management.

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population.

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins.

This book is based on over 150 scientific papers about the Dogu'a Tembien district in Ethiopia.

The soil is a fundamental constituent of the Earth's system, maintaining a careful state of equilibrium within the biosphere.

Provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of the espionage game in the post-World War II era.

This book includes extended versions of original works on aerospace robotics presented at the Conference on Aerospace Robotics (CARO) in Warsaw.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 1st congress on Geoethics & Groundwater Management (GEOETH&GWM'20), held in Porto, Portugal, in an online format on 18-22 May 2020.

This book introduces the components and principles of the common ballast management systems.

This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project managers, institutions and policy makers.