Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This will be the first textbook on the integration of food, energy and water systems (FEWS).

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.

This book aims to serve as a centralized reference document for students and researchers interested in aspects of marine nitrogen fixation.

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic overview of original theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in the building services engineering domain.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions.

This Brief reports on heat transfer from a solid boundary in a saturated porous medium.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

This unique book shares the knowledge and experience of experts and scientists who apply high-quality findings and input from their research to issues concerning the management of water resources and their quality in Baltic countries including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Russia.

This book contains a rich resource of essential information on the water resources capacities in Poland.

Do you know silica, the tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen constituting the crystals of New Agers and the desiccant in a box of new shoes?

This book presents the first comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan including surface water resources and groundwater resources.

Describing the natural state of eight important lakes in Asia and the human impact on these lake ecosystems, this book offers a valuable reference guide.

Science now reveals the true cause of the dam breach flood that destroyed Johnstown in 1889.

This textbook is a step-by-step tutorial on the applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in environmental and water resource issues.

This book is a multidisciplinary manuscript bringing together contributions on water issues from natural and social scientists focused on water management and structures in a challenging environmental situation such as Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's western desert.

This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge concerning water quality in Poland.

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 examines bioremediation technologies as a tool for environmental protection and management.

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 book highlights the concept of environmental water footprint in the energy (bioenergy & hydropower) sector and the building/construction sector, focusing on a case study in Iran.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures.

This book describes a recent effort combining interdisciplinary expertise within the Collaborative Research Centre "e;Energy transfers in atmosphere and ocean"e; (TRR-181), which was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

This book uses case studies to highlight the environmental water footprints in the agricultural and livestock farming sector, and those of consumer products.

This book presents an overview of our current understanding of the biomineralization mechanisms for shell formation in the pearl oyster Pinctada fucata, based on molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, structural biology and environmental biology.

This book presents new findings on intrinsic variability in pollutant build-up and wash-off processes by identifying the characteristics of underlying process mechanisms, based on the behaviour of various-sized particles.

This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution.

This book highlights recent research and developments in floating structures on rivers, lakes, seas and oceans for energy harvesting, aquaculture and farming, leisure activities, infrastructure, industrial plants, real estate and cities, with a focus on sustainably living, relaxing and working offshore.

This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups.

This volume discusses environmental issues associated with deep-sea mining, with an emphasis on potential impacts, their consequences and the policy perspectives.

This book assesses recent developments in the analysis of agricultural policy and water resource management, and highlights the utility and theoretical rigor of quantitative methods for modeling agricultural production, market dynamics, and natural resource management.

Although of high abundance, diversity and ecological importance, meiofauna is little covered by relevant scientific media.

This volume is a complete review and reference work for scientists, engineers, and students concerned with coral reefs in the Red Sea.

This book is the final installation in a three-volume series synthesizing 30 years of mercury research in the Florida Everglades.

The main thrust of this book is focused on addressing the various interrelated processes, analysis and activities bearing upon sound river management.

This book gathers technical and scientific contributions from leading researchers, academics, and lecturers, focusing on water management, water pollution and water structures in the Czech Republic.

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

This book explores the current challenges with regard to uncertainty and risk in water management, as well as the interlinkages between drought and water management.

This book is devoted to the dangerous fishes found offshore the eastern and southern Arabian Peninsula.

This book provides an overview of arid and semi-arid lands conditions, their general characteristics, methods of management, conservation, exploitation and reclamation.

Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 -- over 45 years of outstanding coverage!

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the theory of equatorially-confined waves and currents in the ocean.

This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach.

This book reviews principles, techniques and applications of metal, metal oxides, metal sulfides and metal-organic frameworks for removal and degradation of pollutants.

Harmful algal blooms (HABs) - blooms that cause fish kills, contaminate seafood with toxins, or cause human or ecological health impacts and harm to local economies - are occurring more often, in more places and lasting longer than in past decades.

This book commemorates the 70th birthday of Eugene Morozov, the noted Russian observational oceanographer.

This book contains the written, thoroughly reviewed versions of both invited lectures and regular presentations given at the 36th International School of Hydraulics, held at Jachranka in Poland on May 23-26, 2017.

This book highlights cutting-edge applications of machine learning techniques for disaster management by monitoring, analyzing, and forecasting hydro-meteorological variables.

This book is a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the ICEC 2018 conference, held in Caen, France, in August 2018.

Integrated Coastal Management in the Japanese Satoumi: Restoring Estuaries and Bays provides an in-depth exploration of the integrated costal management (ICM) used in the Japanese Satoumi.

Marine Pollution: Sources, Fate and Effects of Pollutants in Coastal Ecosystems bring together the theoretical background on common and emerging marine pollutants and their effects on organisms (ecotoxicology).