Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book is about important relevant recent research topics in sustainable aquaculture practices.

Wetlands are often seen as the ultimate symbol of beauty and tranquillity, their clear waters sheltering mysterious animals in a world where change is gentle and slow, from dragonflies skimming above their own reflections to the fishes glimpsed briefly below.

This book provides comprehensive analysis of a number of groundwater issues, ranging from flow to pollution problems.

This title was originally published in 1963.

A review of the principles of the TEX86 proxy and developments made over the last two decades.

This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of nonrenewable resources.

This book underpins the geography of the Black Sea, covering topics such as morphology, morphography, geology, and history of the Black Sea.

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.

This study, conducted in Kenya, gives the first insight into the performance of a constructed treatment wetland receiving pulp and paper mill wastewater in the tropics.

This book provides a one-stop shop for coastal and marine scientists to understand processes that generate atmospheric circulation as integrated with terrestrial and oceanic circulation processes to create an Earth-ocean-atmosphere climate system.

The second edition of Restoration of Contaminated Aquifers: Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Compounds incorporates the latest advances in in-situ remediation and natural attenuation, and maintains the comprehensive, accessible structure that made the first edition a classic.

While ocean waves are the most visible example of oceanic mixing processes, this macroscale mixing process represents but one end of the spectrum of mixing processes operating in the ocean.

From disappearing coral reefs and ocean acidification to floating great garbage patches, the Pacific Ocean is an ever-present reminder of the Anthropocene.

With many worked examples, this book provides a step-by-step training manual for water treatment calculations.

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

This book comprehensively reviews the key topics in the area of nanocomposites and hybrid materials used for waste water treatment and purification.

This book introduces the latest research regarding the adsorption of heavy metals, toxic ions, and organic compounds at the interfaces of water/minerals, such as mineralogical characterizations, surface chemistry, and modification of natural minerals as adsorbents, as well as the adsorption of cations, anions, and organic compounds in water.

Caustics are natural phenomena, forming light patterns in rainbows or through drinking glasses, and creating light networks at the bottom of swimming pools.

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The Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations is the first thorough resource manual developed exclusively for water and wastewater plant operators.

This book, first published in 1973, focuses on non-urban terrain, and presents a uniquely balanced historical treatment of both the land degradation induced by man and his efforts at conservation, preservation and reclamation.

The supply of reliable and safe water is a key challenge for developing countries, particularly India.

In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view.

This book calls the attention of the scientific community, government organizations and non-government agencies, and the general public, to arguably one of the most important and complex of the world's tropical rainforest regions - the greater Panama Canal Watershed.

Scientific databases relating to the environment, natural resources, and public health on the African continent are, for various reasons, difficult to create and manage effectively.

Floods and droughts are climate extremes that account for more than 80% of people affected by natural disasters worldwide.

Wastewater Treatment Using Green Synthesis discusses advances in wastewater treatment with a focus on biological processes.

Lakes of Africa: Microbial Diversity and Sustainability examines microbial ecosystems in African lakes, including the history and formation of African lakes.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference, GCEC 2017, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25-28, 2017.

In this volume, the erosion and conservation measures discussed are, for the most part, those under unirrigated agriculture.

Providing a guide for marine conservation practice, Marine Conservation takes a whole-systems approach, covering major advances in marine ecosystem understanding.

This book focuses on the construction of remote islands and reefs in the Maritime Silk Road.

Wastewater Treatment Using Green Synthesis discusses advances in wastewater treatment with a focus on biological processes.

First published in 1978: The purpose of this two-volume series is to present a consolidated and comprehensive reference on oxygen-activated sludge technology.

This book arises from a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute on 'The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling' held at Bombann@.

Turbulence in Open Channel and River Flows covers turbulence and related fluid mechanics in open-channel flows, addressing both basic mechanisms and their applications.

This book is based on the project "e;Development and Validation of High Resolution Climate System Models"e; with the support of the National Key Basic Research Project under grant No.

The availability of fresh water is potentially one of the most pervasive crises of the coming century.

This book presents readers with an integrated modeling approach for analyzing and understanding the interconnection of water, energy, and food resources and discusses the relationship between resilience and sustainability of the food- energy -water (FEW) system.

"e;Combines the hydraulic simulation of physical processes with mathematical programming and differential dynamic programming techniques to ensure the optimization of hydrosystems.

This book provides readers with peer-reviewed research papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Clean Energy and Electrical Systems held in Tokyo, Japan, from April 1 to 4, 2023.

Temperate rivers are influenced by many factors including geology, climate, soils, sediment type, flow, as well as human activity.

This addition to The Basics of Recharge and Discharge series deals with the surface water balance approaches that form the traditional basis of hydrological investigations.

Aquatic Chemistry Concepts, Second Edition, is a fully revised and updated textbook that fills the need for a comprehensive treatment of aquatic chemistry and covers the many complicated equations and principles of aquatic chemistry.

New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)The book is an extended and updated edition of the book published in 1996 under the same title (World Scientific, ISBN 9810216866).

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

This book systematically presents the technical aspects of supercritical water oxidation and supercritical water gasification for energy and environmental applications, which include reactor design, construction materials, corrosion, salt precipitation, etc.

Archaeological Oceanography is the definitive book on the newly emerging field of deep-sea archaeology.

This Brief presents the impact of climatic abnormalities on hydropower potential of different regions of the World.

This book examines the US Water Quality Act to determine state choice in water infrastructure policy, for researchers and policymakers.