Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Membrane-Distillation in Desalination is an attempt to provide the latest knowledge, state of the art and demystify outstanding issues that delay the deployment of the technology on a large scale.

The book presents a thorough overview of the latest trends and challenges in renewable energy technologies applications for water desalination, with an emphasis on environmental concerns and sustainable development.

The vulnerability of socio-ecosystem combines the probability of exposure to natural or anthropogenic pressure, sensitivity and resilience.

This book explores the practice of transdisciplinary research through the narratives of different individuals taking part in a project investigating local water management.

This book reports on the treatment of waters and wastewaters with contaminants of emerging concern such as pharmaceutically active compounds.

This book explores the national security implications of the Arab Gulf states'' reliance on desalination plants, for researchers and policy makers.

Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates.

As pointed out by other researchers, hybrid structures in ocean engineering are based on flat concrete foundations.

"e;Showcases the beneftis and potential advantages of water hydraulics over oil-based media.

This book provides essential background knowledge on a wide range of hydrological processes governing contaminant transport from soil to surface water across a range of scales, from hillslope to watershed.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

This book describes the work of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) since its launch 1992.

This book provides a detailed review of terminations of ice ages, including a very attractive theory based on dust deposits on ice sheets.

Dramatic advances in understanding global tectonics have been made in the last half century and the information and specific data acquired on the floor of the World Ocean by the scientific community probably has exc- ded that available in all previous time.

The Ocean and Us provides an overview of our contemporary understanding of the ocean and all the ways our lives interact with it.

Fast changing legislation and increasing environmental awareness within the non-scientific community demands that the modern approach to the management of rivers and water resources should be based on a sound understanding and application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes.

In this book, the authors examine the governance of marine protected areas (MPA), and in particular they compare two different forms of governance - co-management (CM) and adaptive co-management (ACM).

Vadose Zone Hydrology describes the elements of the physical processes most often encountered by hydrogeologists and ground-water engineers in their vadose zone projects.

Discoveries of new types of marine mineral occurrences during the last decade, and specifically the massive sulfide deposits at spreading ridges on the ocean floor, have significantly advanced geologic concepts about the origin of ore deposits in a very short period of time.

With an emphasis on methodology, this reference provides a comprehensive examination of water movement as well as the movement of various pollutants in the earth's subsurface.

This book introduces readers to basic approaches in and principles of marine nuclear power design, including overall reactor design, in-core design, coolant systems and devices, I&C system design, safety system design, and dynamic analysis assessment.

A growing proportion of the world's population is dependent on Seawater Desalination as a source of fresh water for both potable and civil use.

Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences.

The book considers the riverine paleo structures of the coastal marine zone from the point of view of marine bottom seismic acoustics.

Edited in collaboration with TEN ECOPORT project, this volume contains the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 'Sustainable Development of the Sea-corridors and Coastal Waters'.

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This book aims to provide a fundamental grasp of graphene-based materials (GAMs) and their adsorption process.

The River Camel, for much of its length, is arguably in the fi rst division of the most beautiful and interesting waterways in the West Country.

Ocean harvests have plateaued worldwide and many important commercial stocks have been depleted.

This volume describes and explores the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, and addresses challenges faced by established and young Conservation Paleobiologist's alike.

This book focuses on water disputes in New Zealand: a country where such conflicts are assumed to be non-existing.

This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative review of the chemical analysis of UV filters in coastal waters and their impact on the marine environment.

Climate change on earth is having significant impacts on water resources management in Southeast Asia.

Water Management Challenges in Global Change contains the proceedings of the 9th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI2007) and the Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM2007) conferences.

The book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investigations in the main rivers of wider Central Asia and Afghanistan.

Coastal Flood Risk Reduction: The Netherlands and the U.

The oceans cover about 72 percent of our planet (which is named for the remaining 28 percent).

The Gloucester & Sharpness Canal - An Illustrated History draws on contemporary sources and throws new light on the construction, operation and maintenance of the canal.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide 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.

In Italy, the debate about the reform process, that has involved the water sector for several years, cannot be considered concluded.

This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies.

This new edition of a classic text has been significantly expanded to cover the most current issues and international standards are examined in-depth, with detailed coverage of WHO, European, UK and US standards, organisations and practice.

A concise overview of the basic physics and hydrodynamics of estuaries, with special topics at the forefront of estuarine research.

Accurate and timely environmental information can provide a tactical advantage to U.

Against a background of extensive multi-disciplinary oceanographic investigations over a number of years, together with the long-term establishment of a Society and Institute, extensive information is available from studies undertaken in the estuarine and coastal waters of the Basque Country.

This textbook employs a technical and quantitative approach to explain subsurface hydrology and hydrogeology, and to offer a comprehensive overview of groundwater-related topics such as flow in porous media, aquifer characterization, contaminant description and transport, risk assessment, and groundwater remediation.

This encyclopedia adopts a wider definition for the concept of ocean engineering.

This is the first comprehensive science-based primer to highlight the unique ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests, and discuss how these services preserve the livelihoods of coastal populations.

This is the first of two volumes that together provide a comprehensive overview of the current sustainable and low-cost wastewater treatment technologies applied in communities that lack the financial and technical resources needed for an environmental, disease prevention and health nexus.