Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Weaving a National Map draws on contributions to a September 2002 workshop and the U.

This book highlights the concept of water footprint in different industrial sectors such as leather tanning, steel, agriculture, textile and wine.

This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment.

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Featuring real-world examples and practical methodology, this rigorous text combines mechanical theory with design and modelling.

Does participatory governance benefit the environment?

The hydrogeologic environment of fractured rocks represents vital natural systems, examples of which occur on every continent.

Access to water in many parts of the world is increasingly challenging due to scarcity, quality issues and lack of access to adequate supply infrastructure.

A new approach to water-resources for researchers, professionals and graduate students, focusing on global sustainability and socio-ecological resilience to change.

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns.

This textbook on the applied aspects of soil physics covers introduction to soil physical properties and processes, and their evaluation and management in relation to plant growth.

Investigators from a number of countries have been studying the ice community and experimental information is now available from a number of geographic areas.

In the last 50 years marine conservation has grown from almost nothing to become a major topic of global activity involving many people and organisations.

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources.

In this stunning book, nature photographer and ecologist David Blevins offers an inspiring visual journey to North Carolina's barrier islands as you have never seen them before.

Climate change is having an increasing impact on coastal, estuarine, and marine environments worldwide.

This book presents the applications of ion-exchange materials in the area of environmental analysis and treatment.

It is widely stipulated that the world's water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century.

In order to provide water security in the twenty-first century, there is universal agreement that a continuation of current policies and extrapolation of trends is not an option.

This user-friendly book introduces biochar to potential users in the professional sphere.

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

Geochemical modeling is an important tool in environmental studies, and in the areas of subsurface and surface hydrology, pedology, water resources management, mining geology, geothermal resources, hydrocarbon geology, and related areas dealing with the exploration and extraction of natural resources.

An evidence-based policy summary to help governments, local authorities and businesses meet internationally agreed environmental goals.

This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the many facets relating to human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems.

This book offers practical guidance for practitioner engineers, policymakers, and other decision-makers on how to implement solar photovoltaic water pumping systems to provide domestic clean water in off-grid regions of developing countries.

This book is a brief summary of the course of lectures in Geochemistry for undergraduate and graduate students from other than Geological Departments (chemists, biologists, ecologists and naturalists).

This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community.

Derzeit steigt der Meeresspiegel weltweit an, und es wirddiskutiert, ob sich dabei schon der Treibhauseffektauswirkt.

Sewer systems fall into the category "e;out of sight, out of mind"e; - they seldom excite interest.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades.

There is no question that water pricing and public-private partnership can improve water management practices in the future.

This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales.

Issues in Underground Storage Tank Management presents a comprehensive description of the many complex facets of hazardous waste management, tank closure, and site assessment.

This popular undergraduate textbook offers students a firm grounding in the fundamentals of biological oceanography.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR's Air and Surface Weapons Technology (ASWT) program.

This book examines the Union-State and inter-State relations concerning water issues in India.

This new edition of Classical Mechanics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics describes the motions of rigid bodies and shows how classical mechanics has important applications to geophysics, as in the precessions of the earth, oceanic tides, and the retreat of the moon from the earth owing to the tidal friction.

Rare Earth Elements in Groundwater Flow Systems is the first volume of its kind entirely focused on the geochemistry of the lanthanide series elements in groundwater/aquifer environments.

This book attempts to bridge the gap between the climate change research and decision-making communities by exploring the impacts of climate change on groundwater from a more applied perspective.

This book covers the fundamental concepts required to solve typical problems in water and wastewater engineering.

Economic literature is often too theoretical for engineers and policymakers to put into practical use, while scientific literature on the remediation of contaminated aquifers rarely considers costs and benefits.

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is an integrated and comprehensive approach to ocean governance and is used to establish a rational use of marine space and reconcile conflicting interests of its users.

Desalination Project Cost Estimating and Management examines the key issues associated with the estimation of costs for desalination plants.

A comprehensive, state-of-the-art synthesis of biogeochemical dynamics and the impact of human alterations at major river-coastal interfaces for advanced students and researchers.

This informative volume provides comprehensive knowledge on various aspects of wastewater resource management from the point of process sustainability and resource recovery.

Irrigation with Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater - A Guidance Manual is for use in the planning, design, and operation of agricultural and landscape irrigation systems using reclaimed municipal wastewater.

The rather excessive public preoccupation of the immediate past with what has been labeled the 'environmental crisis' is now fortunately being replaced by a more sus- tained and rational concern with pollution problems by public administrators, engineers, and scientists.

Since research on meiobenthos was last compiled in a textbook (2008/2009), the number of theoretical and applied studies has been growing rapidly.

Pollution of waterbodies and the environment by petroleum industry is of particular concern in Nigeria.