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  • Restoration of Degraded Rivers: Challenges, Issues and Experiences

    Edited by D.P. Loucks ...
    Series Book 39 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    In the continued quest for increased economic benefits from our water resources, numerous structures and operating policies for controlling the river flow have been built and implemented. These structures and associated operating policies can facilitate navigation; they can provide greater quantities of reliable water supplies to meet agricultural, industrial and municipal water demands; they can ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

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  • Urban Water Management

    Science Technology and Service Delivery

    Edited by Roumen Arsov, W. Ed Watt, Evzen Zeman, J. Marsalek ...
    Series Book 25 - NATO Science Series: IV
    Urban population growth dramatically alters material and energy fluxes in the affected areas, with concomitant changes in landscape, altered fluxes of water, sediment, chemicals and pathogens and increased releases of waste heat. These changes then impact on urban ecosystems, including water resources and result in their degradation. Such circumstances make the provision of water services to urban ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Dynamic Systems for Everyone

    Understanding How Our World Works

    by Asish Ghosh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is a study of the interactions between different types of systems, their environment, and their subsystems. The author explains how basic systems principles are applied in engineered (mechanical, electromechanical, etc.) systems and then guides the reader to understand how the same principles can be applied to social, political, economic systems, as well as in everyday life. Readers from ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    Integrating Air Chemistry and Land Interactions

    by Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, Chiel C. van Heerwaarden, Bart J. H. van Stratum, Kees van den Dries ...
    Based on more than twenty years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the atmosphere and the land for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for researchers in atmospheric physics and chemistry, hydrology, and plant physiology. The combination of the book, which ... Read more

    $74.69 USD

  • Regional Approaches to Water Pollution in the Environment

    Edited by P.E. Rijtema, V. Eliás ...
    Series Book 20 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    Regional Approaches to Water Pollution in the Environment integrates knowledge and experience on pollution problems related to industrial, agricultural and municipal activities and former military sites, with special emphasis on the Black Triangle: the region situated at the borders between North Bohemia, Polish Lower Silesia and South Saxony. Here, some five million inhabitants live in an area of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks

    Edited by Andreas Pyka, Petra Ahrweiler, Nigel Gilbert ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The competitiveness of firms, regions and countries greatly depends on the generation, dissemination and application of new knowledge. Modern innovation research is challenged by the need to incorporate knowledge generation and dissemination processes into the analysis so as to disentangle the complexity of these dynamic processes. With innovation, however, strong uncertainty, nonlinearities and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • What Is Water?

    The History of a Modern Abstraction

    by Jamie Linton ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    We all know what water is, and we often take it for granted. Because it seems so natural, we seldom question how we see water. But the spectre of a worldwide water crisis suggests that there might be something fundamentally wrong with the way we think about water.Jamie Linton dives into the history of the modern concept of water, that water can be stripped of its wider environmental, social, and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Tools for Drought Mitigation in Mediterranean Regions

    Edited by Giuseppe Rossi, Antonino Cancelliere, L.S. Pereira, Theib Oweis, Muhammad Shatanawi, Abdelaziz Zairi ...
    Series Book 44 - Water Science and Technology Library
    Significant vulnerability of water systems to drought is a common issue of water resources management in Mediterranean regions. This is due both to the increasing occurrence and severity of drought events and to the growing demand for municipal, tourist, and agricultural uses. The INCO-DC project entitled "A Decision Support System for Mitigation of Drought Impacts in the Mediterranean Regions" ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Land Use Simulation for Europe

    Edited by John Stillwell, Henk J. Scholten ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Land use change is driven by a variety of forces, including spatial policies formulated at supra-national, national, regional and local levels. The main focus of this book is to contextualise, explain and illustrate a new methodology for simulating land use change in different parts of Europe. It considers some of the more important causal factors and identifies state-of-the-art approaches to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Fractional Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization

    Applications and Evaluation of an Evolutionary Algorithm

    by Micael Couceiro, Pedram Ghamisi ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book examines the bottom-up applicability of swarm intelligence to solving multiple problems, such as curve fitting, image segmentation, and swarm robotics. It compares the capabilities of some of the better-known bio-inspired optimization approaches, especially Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (DPSO) and the recently proposed Fractional Order Darwinian ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Survival under Uncertainty

    An Introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution

    by Dimitri Volchenkov ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book introduces and studies a number of stochastic models of subsistence, communication, social evolution and political transition that will allow the reader to grasp the role of uncertainty as a fundamental property of our irreversible world. At the same time, it aims to bring about a more interdisciplinary and quantitative approach across very diverse fields of research in the humanities ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Intentional Risk Management through Complex Networks Analysis

    by Victor Chapela, Regino Criado, Santiago Moral, Miguel Romance ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book combines game theory and complex networks to examine intentional technological risk through modeling. As information security risks are in constant evolution, the methodologies and tools to manage them must evolve to an ever-changing environment. A formal global methodology is explained in this book, which is able to analyze risks in cyber security based on complex network models and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD