Hydrology and the hydrosphere

In the Eastern corridor of Northern region of Ghana, presence of high fluoride concentration in the groundwater has made many drilled boreholes unusable for drinking.

The global human population will reach nine billion by 2050, and seafood is projected to be the primary food source to sustain such a large population.

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring and early warning around the world.

This book reviews the sources of soil and groundwater contamination and the potential remediation technologies.

Dead zones are on the rise.

"e;How do the oceans work?

This edited volume provides a critical discussion of particular trends that are widely recognised to influence water management by comparing them with what is actually happening in the field.

Our objective in this book and in subsequent volumes of the Uniscience Series on Water Pollution Control Technology, is to provide a reference manual for design engineers, planners, and managers in industry and government.

From the Executive Summary:There are some concerns that the current Corps planning and construction budget has not kept pace with expanding national water management needs for flood hazard management, water transportation, and other purposes.

This compilation of papers provides useful insights on the differing approaches to water quality and the diversity of strategies in water quality management worldwide.

This book provides a definitive overview of the global drivers of high-mountain cryosphere change and their implications for people across high-mountain regions.

This is the first comprehensive international atlas featuring all ecological services provided by Ramsar wetlands, with complete views of all Ramsar sites, through remote sensing and mapping.

Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of animals on earth.

The continuing global decline of the health of the sea, and the increasing depletion of marine resources and biodiversity, caused by human activity and climate change, have led to ever-increasing international concern.

Computational simulation methods have a range of applications in hydraulic and coastal engineering.

Symposium on Geochemistry of Groundwater

Hydraulic research is developing beyond traditional civil engineering to satisfy increasing demands in natural hazards, structural safety assessment and environmental research.

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2.

The establishment of clean, safe water is one of the major challenges facing societies around the globe.

Groundwater resources are facing increasing pressure from consuming and contaminating activities.

Methods and guidelines for developing and using mathematical models Turn to Effective Groundwater Model Calibration for a set of methods and guidelines that can help produce more accurate and transparent mathematical models.

Provides a quantitative, accessible approach to the fundamental physics and biology of the coastal ocean, for undergraduate and graduate students.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

This volume provides various examples and dimensions, chemical, biological, climatic, or related to extreme (hazards).

In attending to surfaces, as they wrap, layer and grow within sentient bodies, material formations and cosmological states, this volume presents a series of ten anthropological studies stretching across five continents and in observation of earthly practices of making, knowing, living and dying.

The background for the Workshop on Cohesive Sediment Dynamics - .

This is the 2nd edition of one of the most comprehensive accounts of debris flow, describing both theoretical and applied aspects.

This book presents some of the most recent tools, methods and concepts in historical ecology.

Draws on contributions from leading researchers to deliver a comprehensive overview of the latest knowledge on coral reef fishes.

A unified and comprehensive account of the fundamental equations of atmospheric and oceanic models for climate and weather forecasting.

Contamination of aqueous environments by hazardous chemical compounds is the direct cause of the decline of safe clean water supply throughout the globe.

Arsenic contamination has become a global phenomenon.

Background This book is the most obvious outcome of the "e;COST 351, WATMOVE"e; project (see www.

The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies.

This book presents a complete account of the 19th century German immigrant Edward Cordell, a hydrographer who discovered a major seamount that was designated the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Water is an essential resource for agriculture, but harvesting water for irrigation is a major issue for farmers in developing and underdeveloped countries.

Written for researchers, university lecturers and advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in all fields of archaeological and anthropological study, this collection features new research from different excavation sites around Indonesia together with pioneering expert analysis.

The first comprehensive treatment of the theory for small and large amplitude internal gravity waves, with illustrative examples and exercises.

The United States faces decisions requiring information about the oceans in vastly expanded scales of time and space and from oceanic sectors not accessible with the suite of tools now used by scientists and engineers.

Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life.

Like all limited and vulnerable resources, water has become one of the potential targets of terrorists.

Mining can have negative environmental and social impacts, but can also be responsible.

This book addresses the enormous global challenge of providing balanced and sustainable solutions to urgent water problems.

Water is the most basic need of mankind.

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.

First published in 1992, this wide-ranging volume features 44 articles from 89 contributors on issues of and solutions to modelling of coastal waters around the world in response to an increasing interest in the development and application of numerical hydraulic models as design and management tools.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

This book provides a broad understanding of the main computational techniques used for water hammer research in water systems.