Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book addresses ways to provide the highest quality water services at the lowest possible cost, and examines the major finance issues that system managers face.

Pollution of water sources with emerging contaminants (micropollutants) is a fact known worldwide.

This book describes the entire coast and beaches and barrier systems of Australia.

This book is designed to serve as a comprehensive source of information of sedimentation processes and design of settling systems, especially as applied to design of such systems in civil and environmental engineering.

Overview of the stochastic concepts of solute transport processes, scaling issues, and practical tools for the analysis of solute transport.

When, as a young man in the 1880s, Benjamin Lundy signed up for duty aboard a square-rigged commercial sailing vessel, he began a journey more exciting, and more terrifying, than he could have ever imagined: a treacherous, white-knuckle passage around that notorious graveyard of ships, Cape Horn.

First published in 1992, this title offers an experienced and constructive evaluation of the ways in which water resources have been developed in Africa.

Accurate predictions of storm surge are of importance in many coastal areas in the world to avoid and mitigate its destructive impacts.

Scientists and engineers around the world are striving to develop new sources of energy.

This thesis examines the feasibility of using silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) as a viable disinfectant.

Describes physical and statistical aspects of waves for graduates, researchers and engineers.

In every respect, human development and human security are closely linked to the productivity of ecosystems.

The third of John Neale's books looking at Cornish rivers takes us down the Fowey, from its source on Bodmin Moor to its estuary at Fowey itself.

Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts.

This volume reviews the evolution of ten years' learning and discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food.

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.

In its relentless pursuit of further knowledge, science tends to compartmentalize.

This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual.

Originally published in 1982, this book presents a detailed review of alluvial river form and process and integrates the distinct but related approaches of geomorphologists, geologists and engineers to the subject.

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them.

This valuable new book offers practical guidance regarding the design and operation of systems for reducing effluent nitrogen and phosphorus.

During recent years, large-scale investigations into global climate change and other highly visible issues have taken the lion's share of declining research funds.

In the five years since the publication of the first edition of Spatial Analysis: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods, many new developments have taken shape regarding the implementation of new tools and methods for spatial analysis with R.

This is the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts.

Filling a gap in the karst literature, this book describes methods most appropriate for use in karst terrains.

Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, Third Edition is a practical reference to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and ocean sciences.

Since it first became known to European scientists and naturalists in 1798, the platypus has been the subject of controversy, interest and absolute wonder.

It has often been said that generals prepare for the next war by re-fighting the last.

This book discusses what it means for cities to work toward and achieve resilience in the face of climate change.

This book comprises the selected papers from the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

As a response to the climate crisis and its effect on marine ecosystems and coastal populations, this book proposes concrete science driven solutions at establishing transformation pathways towards Sustainable Blue Growth, that are supported by technically and socially innovative innovations.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from the 11th International Conference on Asian and Pacific Coasts (APAC 2023).

This book contains detailed information about the traditional rainwater structures.

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

Measurements in and just below the plant root zone, using principles of soil physics, can be used to estimate recharge.

This book on the current state of knowledge of submarine geomorphology aims to achieve the goals of the Submarine Geomorphology working group, set up in 2013, by establishing submarine geomorphology as a field of research, disseminating its concepts and techniques among earth scientists and professionals, and encouraging students to develop their skills and knowledge in this field.

First published in 1989, Eric L.

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.

Technological improvements have greatly increased the ability of marine scientists to collect and analyze data over large spatial scales, and the resultant insights attainable from interpreting those data vastly increase understanding of poplation dynamics, evolution and biogeography.

This book presents all Malacostracan cructaceans occurring in the Baltic Sea in water salinity from 2 to 15 psu.

This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue.

Fully updated and expanded into two volumes, the new edition of Groundwater Contamination explains in a comprehensive way the sources for groundwater contamination, the regulations governing it, and the technologies for abating it.

For many years the reduction of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea has been a hot issue for mass-media, science, political parties and environmental action groups with manifold implications related to fisheries (will the Baltic cod survive?

The book presents a comprehensive study of the percolation of water from surface runoff with a focus on the retention capacity and intensity of precipitation.

A global blue economy is an economic arena that depends on the benefits and values realized from the coastal and marine environments.

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes.

Nature conservation has become increasingly important in Britain over the last three decades.

While science was usually at the forefront of German Antarctic expeditions, research into the Southern Polar region always had a political or economic component, whether it was about resource use or securing areas of influence.