Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Groundwater is sometimes called the hidden asset awareness of its existence and its importance is not well known and as a consequence the measures which are required to protect and manage it in an environmental sustainable way are either not taken or are taken too late.

Accretionary prisms in convergent margins are natural laboratories for exploring initial orogenic processes and mountain building episodes.

The book explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America.

This volume presents geological, geographical, environmental, and agriculture related studies on rivers, focusing on basins of the three geomorphic divisions of India, i.

Nowhere are floods more paradoxical than in the generally arid Australian continent.

The main purpose of water quality monitoring may be seen as evaluating water quality conformity against water quality standards, especially for administrative purposes.

In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored the effects of observed and projected changes in the climate on the dynamics of lakes in Northern, Western and Central Europe.

This book explores the intricate relationship between hydrology and urban water provision.

Perchlorate is a widespread, environmentally persistent contaminant recently discovered in U.

This book provides a highly illustrated synthesis of research on cold-water corals worldwide.

This book examines the corpus of status quo environmental legal regime, geographical issues and redundant "e;stakeholder claims,"e; which persist in the Arctic.

This is the only book series devoted to explaining the full range of specialized areas required of water and wastewater plant operators.

Extensively revised and updated, Handbook of Water Analysis, Third Edition provides current analytical techniques for detecting various compounds in water samples.

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.

From warning the public of impending floods to settling legal arguments over water rights, the measurement of streamflow ("e;streamgaging"e;) plays a vital role in our society.

Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.

A comprehensive summary of tropical cyclone variability at time scales from intraseasonal and interannual to interdecadal and centennial.

Estuaries occur along many of the world's coastlines irrespective of geologic setting, energy regime, and depositional environment.

This book provides a series of exercises of various types covering matters of hydrology and watershed management.

This contributed book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of the interlinkages, challenges, and emerging responses in the areas of water security, climate change, and food systems, especially in a context marked by severe implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased climate vulnerability of many regions already water stressed, and an ambitious global action aiming at curbing climate change and restoring ecosystem.

An introduction to the Large-Eddy-Simulation (LES) method, geared primarily toward hydraulic and environmental engineers, the book covers special features of flows in water bodies and summarizes the experience gained with LES for calculating such flows.

The book presents an interdisciplinary systematic evaluation of increasing water stress and scarcity over the globe and specifically South Africa.

Among the deep-sea marine invertebrates, pycnogonids and crustaceans represent ecologically important and most diverse groups of species.

This book includes invited contributions presenting the latest research on the oceanography and environment of the Red Sea.

Each booklet in The Basics of Recharge and Discharge series covers a specific technique for detecting, measuring or modelling groundwater recharge and discharge.

This volume offers up-to-date and comprehensive information on various aspects of the Nile River, which is the main source of water in Egypt.

The book presents documentary evidence of the insufficiency of rehabilitation works to close the gap between the irrigation service and actual area irrigated of publicly funded national irrigation systems in the Philippines.

The third edition of Environmental Microbiology for Engineers explores the role that microorganisms play in the engineered protection and enhancement of an environment.

Water pollution control has been a top environmental policy priority of the world's most developed countries for decades, and the focus of significant regulation and public and private spending.

Reservoir Capacity and Yield

This book presents the geological evolution of the Baltic Sea area since its inception, i.

This book presents the findings of recent theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans, and lithosphere, discussing their interactions, geology.

This book presents electrochemical water treatment methods, which offer ways to find more sustainable solutions.

This book addresses the impact of soil and water quality on food production, and explores soil and water conservation measures to be applied at farm level for agricultural sustainability.

Jellyfish generally are considered to be nuisances because they interfere with human activities by stinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermen, killing fish in aquaculture pens, and being both predators and competitors of fish.

An overview of the coordination of various requirements for coastal-zone use is provided in this book, offering examples and best practice.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances.

As the world population grows, already burgeoning cities are becoming taxed in every conceivable way.

Estuarine and coastal waters are acknowledged centres for anthropogenic impacts.

Muddy coasts are land-sea transitional environments commonly found along low-energy shorelines which either receive large annual supplies of muddy sediments, or where unconsolidated muddy deposits are being eroded by wave action.

The principles of glacier physics are developed from basic laws in this up-to-date third edition for advanced students and researchers.

Physical Geography: The Key Concepts is a thought-provoking and up-to-date introduction to the central ideas and debates within the field.

This book examines the dynamical processes between high-impact weather and climate events, and between atmospheric and ocean phenomena.

This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of ocean resources and management by focusing on critical issues relating to human development and the marine environment, their interrelationships as expressed through the uses of the sea as a resource, and the regional expression of these themes.

The book will provide an update on our understanding of predator-prey through the prism of ecology, physiology, molecular biology, and mathematical modelling.

A comprehensive introduction to coastal storms and their associated impacts Coastal Storms offers students and professionals in the field a comprehensive overview and groundbreaking text that is specifically devoted to the analysis of coastal storms.

The increasing population densities of Asia, Africa and Oceania are in conflict with the ecosystem.

Eutrophication continues to be a major global challenge to water quality scientists.

This book reviews the practice of reclaiming treated municipal wastewater for agricultural irrigation and using sewage sludge as a soil amendment and fertilizer in the United States.