Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book presents the major engineering achievements in underground aqueducts from around the world and throughout history.

The theory of waves is generalized on cases of strongly nonlinear waves, multivalued waves, and particle-waves.

The magnitude and urgency of the need to adapt to climate change is such that addressing it has been taken up by the United Nations as one of the sustainable development goals - Goal 13 (SDG13) in 2015.

Chapters in this book are contributions from the 9th Conference on limestone hydrogeology, organized in Besancon in September 2011 selected by the scientific committee of H2Karst.

While most books examine only the classical aspects of hydrology, this three-volume set covers multiple aspects of hydrology.

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

Climate change will present a series of challenges to engineers concerned with the provision of both building internal appliance drainage networks and rainwater systems within the building boundary, generally identified as the connection to the sewer network.

Supplementary reading for students and researchers on the factors behind river variability.

The aim of the book is to present for non-specialist researchers as well as for experts a comprehensive overview of the background, key ideas, basic methods, implementation details and a selection of solutions offered by a novel technology for the optimisation of the location of dangerous offshore activities in terms of environmental criteria, as developed in the course of the BalticWay project.

This book provides an overview of beach management tools, including carrying capacity, beach nourishment, environmental and tourism awards (like Blue Flag or others), bathing water quality, zoning, beach typologies, quality index, user's perception, interdisciplinary beach monitoring, coastal legislation, shore protection, social and economic indicators, ecosystem services, and coastal governance (applied in beach case studies).

As a result of the European Commission's concern for the status of continental waters, and as a clear reflection of the notion of water as heritage to be conserved, in the year 2000 the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/CE) was enacted, its goal being to establish a framework to protect water and the different aquatic ecosystems by requiring the Member States to achieve a good ecological status in all their waters by 2015.

A key aspect of town planning, landscape planning and landscape architecture is to identify and then use the distinctive features and characteristics of space, place and landscape to achieve environmental quality.

This book presents the study of limnogeomorphology, in which past proxy data such as lacustrine sediments with information on landform development can be linked to modern observed data acquired by instruments, including hydro-geomorphological and sedimentary data.

This book presents a novel examination of Marine Protected Areas within a security context, bridging science, policy, and geopolitics, and addressing the often-under-emphasized aspect of environmental justice.

This book preserves and scientifically interprets the African foreknowledge on water resources management.

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales.

Riparian Areas of the Southwestern United States: Hydrology, Ecology, and Management provides hydrologists, watershed managers, land-use planners, educators, policymakers, and non-governmental organizations with a comprehensive account of the multiple benefits and conflicts arising from the uniquely structured ecosystems of arid and semi-arid regions.

The book is designed to achieve two major purposes.

The book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Solid Waste Management, held at Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University, Hyderabad on December 15-17, 2017.

This book deals with the sustainability of agriculture on the Black Earth by drawing on data from long-term field experiments.

This book offers an overview of the recent studies and advances in environmental catalysis by nanomaterials, considering both the fundamental and the technological aspects.

This volume captures the impact of women's research on the public health and environmental engineering profession.

The purpose of this book is to bring together under one cover the principles of groundwater engineering.

This compilation on sustainability issues in civil engineering comprises contributions from international experts who have been working in the area of sustainability in civil engineering.

This proceedings book presents a discussion by leading scientists and specialists of the latest scientific results, developed methods, technologies and technical means of research and pilot work in the field of geosciences and environmental management.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of rivers affected by natural and anthropogenic disturbances in the southern Chile and Patagonia.

Daniel Lenihan's Submerged shares stories of underwater expeditions in "e;an adventure-packed ride that rivals any Clive Cussler tome"e; (Archeology Magazine).

To properly operate a waterworks or wastewater treatment plant and to pass the examination for a waterworks/wastewater operator's license, it is necessary to know how to perform certain calculations.

Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals.

Concise yet thorough look at hydraulics and hydraulic engineering.

A users guide for applying barium isotopes in barite to constrain carbon export, ocean circulation, and marine chemistry through time.

Focusing on fundamental principles, Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments presents in-depth information about freshwater environments and how they are influenced by regulation.

One of the major questions in the evolution of animals is the transition from unicellular to multicellular organization, which resulted in the emergence of Metazoa through a hypothetical Urmetazoa.

Biofilms represent the natural living style of microbial communities and play a pivotal role in biogeochemical cycles and natural attenuation.

Natural radiation is omnipresent everywhere on the earth, and humans cannot avoid it.

Multivariate Frequency Analysis of Hydro-Meteorological Variables: A Copula-Based Approach provides comprehensive and detailed descriptions of the approaches and techniques used in multivariate frequency analysis (including, but not limited to copula functions), with illustrative examples and real-life case studies provided.

This book is about the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam newly being built on the Blue Nile, a transboundary river.

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes.

This book will help readers learn the basic skills needed to study microfossils especially those without a formal background in paleontology.

Primary Productivity in Aquatic Environments presents a comprehensive and pioneering exploration of the biological foundations of aquatic ecosystems, marking a significant milestone in the International Biological Programme (I.

In 2007, the world's urban population surpassed the number of people living in rural areas and is still growing.

The study of the topography and structure of the ocean floor is one of the most important stages in ascertaining the geological structure and history of development of the Earth's oceanic crust.

This book gives a detailed account of the scarce water resources of Jordan, with a focus on their quantities, quality, and use for different sectors.

This detailed volume provides an overview of recent advances in the application of genomic technologies in several domains of marine biology, raising awareness of various DNA- and RNA-based technologies.

This book, first published in 1980, is a timely and comprehensive appraisal of thresholds in geomorphology.

The world is faced with a growing number of complex and interconnected challenges.

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible guide covering various aspects of trace metal contamination in abiotic and biotic matrices of an iconic Indian tropical mangrove wetland - Sundarban.

Descriptive Physical Oceanography, Sixth Edition, provides an introduction to the field with an emphasis on large-scale oceanography based mainly on observations.

The containment of pollution by physical defenses is the first step in restoring the ocean to its natural state.

This book describes concepts, value judgments and background information on the expanding conservation tillage practices in the United States and provides a technical appraisal of the state of the art.