Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges, and solutions in the field of water resources for arid areas.

This textbook deals with the most important items in Marine Geology, including some pioneer work.

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 sheds new light on contaminant transport in karst aquifers and the public health implications of contaminated karst groundwater.

This book presents a set of approaches for the real-time monitoring and control of drinking-water networks based on advanced information and communication technologies.

In the present scenario, green technologies are playing significant role in changing the course of nation's economic growth towards sustainability and providing an alternative socio-economic model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive insights into the morphology, morphometry and dynamics of glaciers in the Georgian Caucasus region up to date.

This collection of papers aims to draw lessons and apply indigenous knowledge, wisdom and cultural traditions to suit policy contexts describing the (a) role of individuals (b) communities, and (c) the state to ensure effectively manage water resources.

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.

This book provides insights on and tools for the characterization of island aquifers, as illustrated by the example of the coral islands of Lakshadweep in India.

This textbook provides a unified approach to acoustics and vibration suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate courses on vibration and fluids.

This book discusses sea-level and coastline changes.

This book promotes better understanding and awareness of South Africa' significant water problems by describing the country's and especially the Upper Vaal River's water resources.

This illustrated atlas describes 256 extant brachyuran crab species in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

This volume presents recent advances in the research on meromictic lakes and a state-of-the art overview of this area.

This book provides a survey of technologies available to tackle the problems associated with climate change in the energy, water and food security nexus with a special focus on the Middle East.

This book examines ways of assessing the rational management of nonrenewable resources.

This book presents a new way of looking at and analyzing policies, programs and/or plans in which research scientists have used their knowledge to develop mechanisms such as South Africa's National Water Resource Strategy, Second Edition; Australian and South African climate change adaptation strategies for government entities and the UNDP's Water and Ocean Governance focus area.

This book investigates the need for a more open and interdisciplinary dialogue on the nexus of food, water and energy security in the Arab region.

The book explores how Darwin's legendary and mythologized visit to the Galapagos affected the socioecosystems of the Islands, as well as the cultural and intellectual traditions of Ecuador and Latin America.

This book provides essential information on the higher mathematical level of approximation over the gradually varied flow theory, also referred to as the Boussinesq-type theory.

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 work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt.

This book examines the operation of biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), with a focus on maintaining effluent water quality while keeping operational costs within constrained limits.

The present book describes in detail all aspects of rainwater harvesting, including the basic concepts, procedures, opportunities and practice of rainwater harvesting mainly focusing its application in buildings of various occupancies and sizes.

This volume brings together insights on the interactions between environmental change and human security in the Middle East and Africa.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the potential use of graphene-based materials in two important societal areas: medicine and the environment.

This volume presents the history of marine fog research and applications, and discusses the physical processes leading to fog's formation, evolution, and dissipation.

This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux.

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes:  both floods and droughts.

This textbook covers the main applications of statistical methods in hydrology.

This book contains the most recent progress in data assimilation in meteorology, oceanography and hydrology including land surface.

This volume describes the complex characteristics of almost all Russian coastal estuaries systematized in the following regions: the coasts of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the Bering Seas.

This book, designed as a handbook, provides a systematic treatment of analytical solutions describing groundwater flow during aquifer tests.

The proposed book features a systematic and thorough treatment of the dominant persistent organic pollutants (POP's) encountered in the tropical marine environment of the Indian Sundarban mangrove wetlands, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This book provides an insightful and critical assessment of the state of Canadian water governance and policy.

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

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

This book aims to stimulate new thinking on the roles of river contracts in the protection and management of hydrographic resources and ecosystems and in the sustainable development of dependent territories and communities.

Upwelling systems are special places in the oceans where nutrient-enriched water is brought into the euphotic zone to fuel phytoplankton blooms that, via marine food-web interactions, create the world's richest fish resources.

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 major hydrological, physicochemical and biological processes determining the formation of hydro-physical properties and chemical composition of terrestrial surface water.

This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists.

More than two third of the surface area of our planet is covered by oceans and assessment of the marine biodiversity is a challenging task.

This book describes the work of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) since its launch 1992.

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

This book highlights the anthropogenic pressures on the fresh water bodies and in particular, the Dal and Anchar Lake.

Climate change and the related adverse impacts are among the greatest challenges facing humankind during the coming decades.

This book discusses the problems and feasible remediation of fluoride contamination in groundwater.

This book examines in detail the health of India's Haora River, which is of vital importance as the lifeline of Agartala, the Capital City of Tripura.