Here we report on a 25-year long-term sequence of measures to return a deteriorated recreational urban lake, Alte Donau in Vienna to acceptable water quality.
This book critically analyzes the water quality in the lower Gangetic delta, and examines the environmental conditions and physical processes operating in this rich ecosystem.
This book presents a self-consistent approach to separations of liquids with membranes, contrasting equilibrium separations with the rate-controlling effects of barrier interference on mass transfer.
This volume gathers a variety of applications for remote sensing of vegetation health (VH) and concretely shows how this information can be used in service of ending hunger and of ensuring future food security.
This book contributes to the on-going debates on climate change by focusing on the SDGs and exploring linkages between environmental change and food security as well as the relevance and need to consider the management of natural resources, especially water, soil and forest.
Mit dem bewährten Nachschlagewerk für den projektierenden Bauingenieur ist das Basiswissen für den konstruktiven Wasserbau im Binnenland immer zur Hand.
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides 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.
Darstellung der sich verschärfenden Anforderung hinsichtlich Wassergewinnung, höhere Anforderung bei der Abwassereinleitung sowie der Preisdruck bei Energie- und Rohstoffen.
Alpine aquifers play a critical role in the hydrology of mountainous areas by sustaining base flow in downstream rivers during dry periods and retarding flood propagation after heavy precipitation events.
The book provides a comprehensive assessment of the law governing the use and management of the Nile and considers, more broadly, how international water law can guide the development of a legal and institutional framework for cooperation over shared freshwater resources.
Thema des vorliegenden Buches ist der Umgang mit dem Wasser an der niedersächsischen Küste (hier: die Entwässerung der niedrig liegenden Landschaft), eine fundamentale Angelegenheit für die Menschen, die hier leben und arbeiten.
Die ländliche Bodenordnung stellt ein wichtiges Instrument zur Bereitstellung und Sicherung der Fläche dar, die für die naturnahe Entwicklung anthropogen veränderter Fließgewässer hin zu eigendynamisch resistenten und resilienten Systemen benötigt wird.
This book analyzes the legal and economic situation concerning the removal and allocation of natural resources in the Caspian Sea - the largest enclosed body of salt water in the world, which not only constitutes a fragile ecosystem with tremendous fishery resources, but is also rich in oil and gas deposits.
Simone Lechthaler zeigt, dass der Eintrag von Makroplastik in die Umwelt, der bereits in zahlreichen aquatischen und terrestrischen Bereichen nachgewiesen wurde, vollständig durch anthropogenes Handeln bedingt ist und daher ganzheitlich vermieden werden kann.
This book gives an overview of various aspects of climate change by integrating global climate models, downscaling approaches, and hydrological models.
This book provides an introduction to the complex system functions, variability and human interference in ecosystem between the continent and the ocean.
This proceedings volume for the 4th international conference CIGOS 2017 (Congres International de Geotechnique - Ouvrages - Structures) presents novel technologies, solutions and research advances, making it an excellent guide in civil engineering for researchers, students, and professional engineers alike.
This authoritative book presents a comprehensive account of the essential roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in understanding, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic systems.
This book presents the natural, environmental and scenic richness of the world's coastal and marine areas classified by UNESCO as "e;Natural World Heritage Sites"e;.
This book aims to share newly obtained results and information on regional oceanography of the South China Sea by leading experts in fields such as water mass, circulation, mesoscale eddies, near-inertial motion, upwelling, mixing, continental shelf waves, internal waves and fronts.
This book presents a historical and ethnographic study of changing mangrove management in northern Vietnam over the past 100 years, grounded in a case study in the Red River Delta in northern Vietnam.
The aim of this edited volume is to introduce the scientific community to paleoenvironmental studies of estuaries, to highlight the types of information that can be obtained from such studies, and to promote the use of paleoenvironmental studies in estuarine management.
This book analyses the sustainability of membrane operations applied on an industrial scale, as well as that of those under investigation on lab/pilot scales, covering also the preparation of both polymeric and inorganic membranes.
