Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book assesses both the effectiveness and efficiency of implemented Economic Policy Instruments (EPIs) in order to achieve water policy goals and identifies the preconditions under which they outperform alternative (e.

This book presents the application of pulsed electrical discharges in water and water dispersions of metal nanoparticles in medicine (surgery, dentistry, and oncology), biology and ecology.

The book offers a broad overview of asset management processes for different utilities, with a special emphasis on energy and water.

This monograph presents a unified approach to model-based processing for underwater acoustic arrays.

The revised second edition updates and expands the discussion, and incorporates additional figures and illustrative problems.

This book analyses policy making processes at the micro-level and offers a unique insight into the fascinating world of policy entrepreneurs, elucidating their strategic modus operandi.

This book applies the 'ecosystem services' framework to coastal environments, showing how it could facilitate an adaptive management strategy.

This book examines the reasons behind the resonant amplification of seismic and ocean waves that have the capacity to destroy cities and ocean-going vessels.

This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change.

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This book provides an overview of the GLOWA-Danube research project from 2001 to 2011, a transdisciplinary initiative which explores the future of water resources in the Upper Danube Basin.

A comprehensive review of environmental remediation is presented with an emphasis on the role of clay minerals in water purification.

This book reveals all that can potentially happen when a private company takes over a local water supply system, both the good and the bad.

Focusing on glaciation and speleogenesis in the region of New York and New England, this book serves as an example of a karst region that has experienced large-scale continental glaciation.

Water pricing to achieve conservation in scarce water resources is a major policy challenge.

This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security.

The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea.

This book presents geomorphological and sedimentological aspects of Holocene boulder ridges along the coastline of western Ireland (the Aran Islands and Galway Bay).

This book aims at stimulating discussion between researchers working on state of the art approaches for operational control and design of transport of water on the one hand and researchers working on state of the art approaches for transport over water on the other hand.

This book offers a meaningful and practicable guide to better management of arsenic problems in the groundwater of the Gangetic Plain.

This proceedings book provides the latest developments on water as a unique resource that can meet the fundamental needs of human beings and ecosystems.

This book deals with the water policy and management in Canada.

This book reviews and summarizes the results and hypotheses raised by studies directly or indirectly dealing with the ecology of fronts and aims to identify the themes that connect them to produce a synthesis of this knowledge.

As the evidence for human-induced climate change becomes more obvious, so too does the realisation that it will harshly impact on the natural environment as well as on socio-economic systems.

This book highlights the indispensability of minerals, the vulnerability of humans and issues faced by governments around the world regarding the management of natural resources.

This brief gives a summary of the soluble bio-based substances (SBO) field.

This book presents insights into the complex processes controlling sediment behavior in river basins and into state of the art integrated sediment management concepts.

This book will help readers learn the basic skills needed to study microfossils especially those without a formal background in paleontology.

This book contributes to the current discussion on global environmental changes by discussing modifications in marine ecosystems related to global climate changes.

This book presents a concise description of the acoustics of ocean sediment acoustics, including the latest developments that address the discrepancies between theoretical models and experimental measurements.

The latest developments regarding the theory and practice of effectively resolving conflict in water resources and environmental management are presented in this book by respected experts from around the globe.

This volume offers concepts, methods and case studies of innovative and evolving technologies in the area of watershed assessment.

This book explores the industrial use of secure, permanent storage technologies for carbon dioxide (CO2), especially geological CO2 storage.

The 15th Franco-Japanese Symposium of Oceanography "e;Marine Productivity, Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-Ecosystems,"e; organized by the long-standing partners Societe franco-japonaise d'Oceanographie de France and Societe franco-japonaise d'Oceanographie du Japon, reviewed the impacts of natural (storms, typhoons, earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.

The aim of this book is to present an overview of the state of the art with regard to the function, application and design of TWSs in order to better protect surface water from contamination.

This book is about the Himalayan ranges as a source of fresh water supply and a perennial store house of ice, snow and permafrost as well as a vast repository of rich biodiversity, in the light of climate change.

The book assembles the latest research on new design techniques in water supplies using desalinated seawater.

This book summarizes the evidence from different African countries about the local impacts of climate change, and how farmers are coping with current climate risks.

This practical training guidebook makes an important contribution to karst hydrogeology.

This book is an integrated approach to present a detailed case study in order to address the taxonomic and ecological features of this planktonic choreotrich protists in an iconic tropical mangrove wetland - Sundarban.

The book encompasses a set of papers on meteorological tsunamis covering various aspects on this rare but potentially destructive multiresonant phenomenon.

This book provides a systematic way of how to make better decisions in water resources management.

This book examines the corpus of status quo environmental legal regime, geographical issues and redundant "e;stakeholder claims,"e; which persist in the Arctic.

Contributing to the growing debate on the need for sustainable water use and management, with concrete examples of new approaches, concepts, arguments, methods and findings which illustrate how this can be achieved, this book will be attractive for large groups of readers familiar with one or more of the themes it tackles, and to the general public.

This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces.

The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate.

This book aims to contribute to the literature and aid in developing a theoretical and practical framework in the area of health and wellness tourism.

Edited in collaboration with TEN ECOPORT project, this volume contains the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on 'Sustainable Development of the Sea-corridors and Coastal Waters'.

This book is the outcome of rigorous and continuous research work done by the author over about three decades on the open ecosystem and dynamic environment of the estuarine Sunderbans.

This book discusses different drinking water treatment technologies and what contaminants each treatment method can remove, and at what costs.