Hydrology and the hydrosphere

In the last 25 years, planetary science experienced a revolution, as vast oceans of liquid water have been discovered within the heart of the icy moons of our Solar System.

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 monograph presents the state of art of the geologic knowledge about the Spanish coast obtained through scientific research in the last 30 years.

This monograph summarizes the environmental issues concerning the channel and the floodplain of the Drava River.

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.

Bringing together key research on bisphenol A (BPA) removal to allow students, and designers and operators of treatment plants to gain knowledge and insight into operating practices, this book presents developments in the technology of wastewater treatment for the removal of micropollutants, using BPA as an example.

This edited volume is the premier book dedicated exclusively to marine science education and improving ocean literacy, aiming to showcase exemplary practices in marine science education and educational research in this field on a global scale.

This richly illustrated book serves as the ideal guide to the items that litter the world's beaches.

This book provides case studies on cultivating alternative crops and presents new cropping systems in many regions of the world.

This edited book presents a novel collection of field-based empirical studies on the Quaternary geomorphology of the Lower Ganga Basin.

This book brings together a talented international group of scholars, policy practitioners, and NGO professionals that explores a range of issues relating to environmental, developmental, and governing challenges on the Mekong, one of the world's  greatest rivers and, alas, one of the most endangered.

This book reviews the consequences of improper disposal of greywater into the environment and the most appropriate treatment technologies for developing countries, focusing on the potential to reuse greywater as a production medium for biomass and bio-products.

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water quality concerns in an urban environment, and climate change issues with a strong Indian focus under one umbrella.

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

This book brings together contributions from experts in water management, scientists, researchers, academics and lecturers, sharing  experiences and successes in this field.

The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe.

This book offers an overview of geospatial technologies in land resources mapping, monitoring and management.

Attending water security is an important challenge and a major systemic risk humanity faces in the years to come.

This classic textbook is an introduction to the systematics and the use of stable isotopes in geosciences.

This manual describes the wide range of electromechanical, electrochemical and electro-optical transducers at the heart of current field-deployable ocean observing instruments.

This book integrates a variety of issues such as regional settings of productivity and nutrient cycling; plankton of coastal and shelf systems; plankton, climate change and human-induced changes; harmful algae and their impacts; and gelatinous zooplankton.

This book gives a detailed account of the scarce water resources of Jordan, with a focus on their quantities, quality, and use for different sectors.

This book contains the most complete description of the geologic and geophysical data of the  structure of Arctic Basin including structures of the earth's crust, crustal and acoustic basement, and sedimentary cover.

This book presents an interdisciplinary study of Lake Cuejdel, one of the youngest natural dam lakes in Romania.

This book provides an overview of the major changes induced by hydrocarbons (HCs) affecting rocks and surface sediments and their implications for non-seismic exploration methods, particularly for marine territories near Cuba.

Mexico is currently facing severe problems with water availability, wastage and contamination.

This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change.

This is the first comprehensive book on the rivers of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta.

This book describes the huge efforts by the Chinese Government concerning the restoration and future sustainable management of Chinese water systems.

This book presents a collection of chapters covering research on the Litani River Basin.

This book shows how the change of water paradigm has become urgent, and provides evidence for new policies that expand water balance to green and virtual water.

This book presents a unique collection of up-to-date applications of graphene for water science.

One of the most serious consequences of global climate change for coral reefs is the increased frequency and severity of mass coral bleaching events and, since the first edition of this volume was published in 2009, there have been additional mass coral bleaching events.

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified.

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water quality concerns in an urban environment, and climate change issues with a strong Indian focus under one umbrella.

This book focuses on the theory and application of interdependent networks.

Because water access, distribution and quality are the most urgent challenges for societies across the world, this book focuses on the current and future demands and challenges in the areas of water scarcity we may face and possible solutions in terms of technology and management including infrastructure changes that are needed for the future smart cities.

This book deals with the challenges for efficient groundwater management, with a focus on South Asia and India, providing a balanced presentation of theory and field practice using a multidisciplinary approach.

The focus of this publication is the uniqueness of the Baltic Sea from a legal perspective, and the regulatory voids that result from the multiple layers of regulation this area is subjected to: up to six layers of regulation (general international law, regional conventions, EU law, national laws, local and municipal rules plus a whole range of non-binding norms and other 'soft law' arrangements) act in parallel.

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 presents a novel computation of the topographic LS factor of the USLE model to estimate spatial soil erosion.

This volume describes and explores the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, and addresses challenges faced by established and young Conservation Paleobiologist's alike.

This book aims to define the concept of Nature Based Solutions (NBS) by using case studies from members of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) Water Action Group - NatureWat.

This book is about important relevant recent research topics in sustainable aquaculture practices.

This book presents a detailed study of the structure and variability of internal tides and their geographical distribution in the ocean.

This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War.

This book presents and discusses the construction of mathematical models that describe phenomena of flow and transport in porous media as encountered in civil and environmental engineering, petroleum and agricultural engineering, as well as chemical and geothermal engineering.

This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary project that examined how law, policy and ecological dynamics influence the governance of regional scale water based social-ecological systems in the United States and Australia.

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

The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability.