Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This volume offers a review of oil inputs to the Mediterranean Sea from sources such as shipping, and offshore exploration and exploitation activities.

From Catchment Management to Managing River Basins: Science, Technology Choices, Institutions and Policy synthesizes key scientific facts crucial for catchment assessment, planning and river basin water accounting.

Graduate book on atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics for meteorology, atmospheric science and oceanography courses.

This book presents an overview of copula theory and its application in hydrology, and provides valuable insights, useful methods and practical applications for multivariate hydrological analysis using copulas.

Coastal Zone Management: Global Perspectives, Regional Processes, Local Issues brings together a vast range of interdisciplinary data on coastal zones in a concise, yet exhaustive format that will be useful to students, researchers, and teachers.

Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community.

This book focuses on the access to water in the building and its surroundings, to infer the mutual interaction and the complex interconnection of green/blue infrastructures.

A research summary of the causes and effects of megaflooding on Earth and Mars, for hydrologists, planetary scientists and engineers.

Hands-On Maintenance for Water/Wastewater Equipment deals with equipment maintenance as individual components, not as complete machines.

Water and wastewater infrastructure are a somewhat invisible, yet critical, part of modern life.

A stream flowing in alluvium deforms its bed surface, forming ripples, dunes, bars, etc.

The textile industry segment has been continuously expanding and it is reported that the global market was US$1000 billion in 2020.

This book covers those subject areas considered essential for the transfer and transport of pollutants in the marine environment.

Understanding and protecting our environment is a key component of environmental development, yet access to a wide range of high-quality information is currently based on very limited data due to lack of the exchange of data between source and recipient.

To properly operate a waterworks or wastewater treatment plant and to pass the examination for a waterworks/wastewater operator's license, it is necessary to know how to perform certain calculations.

Water is our natural heritage, our miracle of life.

A graduate-level book combining computer models with observational data in oceanography and meteorology.

Due to its height, density, and thickness of crown canopy; fluffy forest floor; large root system; and horizontal distribution; forest is the most distinguished type of vegetation on the earth.

This book introduces emergency management of barrier lakes systematically,including theories and practices, risk assessment under extremely high-riskconditions, evolution of outburst floods, analysis of anti-impact stability, andemergency management technology and assessment of risk elimination effect.

This book examines how large-scale processes drive centimetre-scale mixing throughout the stratified ocean.

This new reference book reports on research studies on sustainable water treatment and ecosystem protection strategies.

This book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Water Treatment and Management (ICAWTM 2023).

In the past decade there has been a rapid increase in waterborne outbreaks of disease associated with viral and protozoan agents, normally in drinking waters that were found to be microbially safe using the Coliform Index.

With an increased demand for wastewater reuse, groundwater recharge with treated wastewater has been practiced across the globe.

In this century, the United States will be challenged to provide sufficient quantities of high-quality water to its growing population.

This volume captures the impact of women's research on the public health and environmental engineering profession.

This atlas aims to provide a 'one-stop' reference source of basic data on tropical marine ciliates that should be used for researchers worldwide.

This book deals with the noteworthy advancement in the production of bioactive metabolites from microbes and their pharmacological significance.

Forest management auditing is expanding from its traditional focus on forest management, stewardship and Chain of Custody certification to more innovative topics such as ecosystem services, forest carbon credits, Non-Wood Forest Products, wood energy and Fair Trade certification.

Creating Freshwater Wetlands, Second Edition clearly demonstrates the step-by-step processes required to restore or create freshwater wetlands.

This book introduces the concept of 'biological weathering.

Water is a finite resource, and the demand for clean water is constantly growing.

While there are several excellent books dealing with numerical analysis and analytical theory, one has to practically sift through hundreds of references.

Coastal Ocean Observing Systems provides state-of-the-art scientific and technological knowledge in coastal ocean observing systems, along with guidance on establishing, restructuring, and improving similar systems.

Groundwater is an increasingly important resource to human populations around the world, and the study and protection of groundwater is an essential part of hydrogeology - the subset of hydrology that concentrates on the subsurface.

The book is the first to focus on the physical oceanography of the North Indian Ocean (NIO), a special region of the global ocean that exhibits a distinct seasonality due to the impact of the South Asian Monsoon (SAM).

The Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869 is the most widely farmed sturgeon species.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions.

The efficient management of water supply becomes even more important in arid areas where supply is at best erratic.

Completely updated and with three new chapters, this analysis of river dynamics is invaluable for advanced students, researchers and practitioners.

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.

The present state of the art of dam engineering has been ronmental, and political factors, which, though important, attained by a continuous search for new ideas and methods are covered in other publications.

Describes seabed fluid flow processes for research scientists and professionals in the marine environment.

The book shows how the new observations from satellites required advances in theory and influenced societal decision-making.

Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades.

This book provides recent understanding about the sustainable development in agriculture.

Bioremediation: A Sustainable Approach to Preserving Earth's Water discusses the latest research in green chemistry practices and principles that are involved in water remediation and the quality improvement of water.

This book aims to introduce pioneering scientific concepts in water and environmental studies, fostering the exchange of cutting-edge research findings and educational insights.

This book highlights unique and deeper insights into the operations of off-grid water supply business models and the policy implications that they raise.