Hydrology and the hydrosphere

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.

The history of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences is an impressive success story.

AWARDS:2006 Outstanding Academic Title, by CHOICEThe 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Best Reference 2005, by the Library JournalRivers of North America is an important reference for scientists, ecologists, and students studying rivers and their ecosystems.

In developing countries, access to the adequate sanitation systems is still limited, and a new business model is required.

This book provides 1-page short biographies of scientists and engineers having worked in the areas of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics in the USA.

Global positioning systems like GPS or the future European Galileo are influencing the world of navigation tremendously.

Are we making the best use of water?

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

Describes physical and statistical aspects of waves for graduates, researchers and engineers.

This book represents a new "e;earth systems"e; approach to catchments that encompasses the physical and biogeochemical interactions that control the hydrology and biogeochemistry of the system.

Water Treatment: Resource Recovery and Sustainability provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research in increasing the sustainability of water treatment processes.

This book aims to exchange and share the experiences and research results on the geospatial technology applied in water resources management.

This book presents a number of modeling studies of various water resources systems in the humid tropics and the typical short, steep mountain-to-coast systems in the archipelagic setting of the Philippines.

This work is designed to broaden the scope with which many people regard a river.

Uncertainty in the predictions of science when applied to the environment is an issue of great current relevance in relation to the impacts of climate change, protecting against natural and man-made disasters, pollutant transport and sustainable resource management.

Is there enough water on this planet for a global population that will shortly double its present size?

This volume is of great importance to humans and other living organisms.

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.

This book summarises for the first time all relevant methodologies for type-based flood statistics, introduces the basis of flood typology and makes them accessible to the user.

This book focuses on Peru's highest and most glacierized mountain range - the Cordillera Blanca.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to microcosms (N-systems) in multiple-species testing and aquatic ecosystem risk assessment.

Global trends of population growth, rising living standards and the rapidly increasing urbanized world are increasing the demand on water, food and energy.

Groundwater is sometimes called the hidden asset awareness of its existence and its importance is not well known and as a consequence the measures which are required to protect and manage it in an environmental sustainable way are either not taken or are taken too late.

This book assesses the current water-security situation in Asia.

A successful modern heavy metal control program for any industry will include not only traditional water pollution control, but also air pollution control, soil conservation, site remediation, groundwater protection, public health management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial-municipal heavy metal waste management.

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

The story of the River Tees is one that combines tales of Roman forts, mythical beings and manufacturing heartlands.

This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids.

Everyone working in a problem as complex as continental drift, must at some time have feit the need for an objective data summary in fields other than his own.

Advanced methods for water consumption management can help save water and financial resources.

From vividly colored underwater photographs of Australia's Great Barrier Reef to life-size dioramas re-creating coral reefs and the bounty of life they sustained, the work of early twentieth-century explorers and photographers fed the public's fascination with reefs.

A beautifully illustrated reference providing fascinating insights into the hidden world of the seafloor using the latest deep-sea imaging.

In recent years there has been growing interest in having fisheries stakeholders involved in various aspects of fisheries data collection and experimentation.

Water balance studies for large and small river basins are the subject of this book.

This book aims to draw readers' attention to the benefits once present nature in Azerbaijan.

This book introduces carbon nanotubes as a matrix for efficient nanohybrid catalysis.

This book provides a fundamental description of multiphase fluid flow through porous rock, based on understanding movement at the pore, or microscopic, scale.

This book works to build trust, consensus, and capacity to enhance understanding through a water conflict management framework designed to bolster collaborative skills.

Dive into the dynamic world of environmental stewardship with "e;Soil, Water Pollution, and Mitigation Strategies: A Spatial Approach.

An intuitive introduction to basic Fourier theory, with numerous practical applications from the geosciences and worked examples in R.

Overview of systems of frequency distributions, their properties, applications to the fields of water resources and environmental engineering.

Based on the past 30-years' research on the technical and cultural values of China's Grand Canal, this book, based on interdisciplinary research, studies the natural and social background of the evolution and development of different sections of the Grand Canal in different historical periods, as well as the interrelations between the Grand Canal and the Chinese politics, economics, and culture.

What are the manifest and likely future consequences of climate change?

This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue.

The book presents an interdisciplinary systematic evaluation of increasing water stress and scarcity over the globe and specifically South Africa.

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

Flooding is one of the most frequently occurring and damaging natural disasters worldwide.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Hydraulics, Water Resources, River and Coastal Engineering (HYDRO 2023) focusing on broad spectrum of emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of flood forecasting and hydraulic structures.