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  • Hydroinformatics Tools for Planning, Design, Operation and Rehabilitation of Sewer Systems

    Edited by Roland Price, Evzen Zeman, Cedo Maksimovic, J. Marsalek ...
    Series Book 44 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    Hydroinformatics systems are systems that combine computational hydraulic modelling with information systems (including knowledge-based systems). They are gaining rapid acceptance in the areas of environmental planning, design and management. The present book focuses exclusively on sewage systems, starting with their planning and then going on to discuss their design, operation and rehabilitation ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management

    Edited by W. Ed Watt, Evzen Zeman, Friedhelm Sieker, J. Marsalek ...
    Series Book 71 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    In 1997 disastrous flooding running through the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany took the lives of a great number of people and caused economic damage estimated in tens of billions of dollars. Flooding of the Yangtze river in 1998 killed more than 3000 people, dislocated 230 million souls, and caused direct damage of more than $ 45 billion. Both the general public and the experts are asking what we ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Advances in Urban Stormwater and Agricultural Runoff Source Controls

    Edited by W. Ed Watt, Evzen Zeman, Heiko Sieker, J. Marsalek ...
    Series Book 6 - NATO Science Series: IV
    Notwithstanding past achievements, flood damage continues to rise throughout the world as the magnitudes of floods increase, partly as a result of poor land management and partly by climate change, growing populations and continuing development in flood-prone areas, and the aging and deterioration of flood defences.One of the major goals of water management is the protection of society from floods ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • 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

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    A Pakistan Perspective

    by Abida Farooqi ...
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    This book presents an up-to-the-minute overview of arsenic and fluoride pollution of soil and groundwater in Pakistan. It includes the author’s doctoral dissertation on Lahore as a case study and describes the mechanism of pollution on the basis of the findings in that area. The book highlights the concrete situation in Pakistan – including the severity of the problem, its health effects and the ... Read more

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  • Environmental Contaminants

    Using natural archives to track sources and long-term trends of pollution

    Edited by Jules M. Blais, John P. Smol, Michael R. Rosen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The human footprint on the global environment now touches every corner of the world. This book explores the myriad ways that environmental archives can be used to study the distribution and long-term trajectories of chemical contaminants. The volume first focuses on reviews that examine the integrity of the historic record, including factors related to hydrology, post-depositional diffusion, and ... Read more

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  • Urban Hydrology, Watershed Management and Socio-Economic Aspects

    Edited by Vijay P. Singh, Suresh A. Kartha, Rajib K. Bhattacharjya, Arup K. Sarma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book brings together high-quality research articles on advanced hydrological analysis, advanced computational methods, and the ecological and sociological aspects of urban watershed management under one umbrella. The rapid pace of urbanization, not accompanied by any farsighted, holistic plan, has reduced many cities in the developing world into multi-hazard areas. The most perceptible ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Storm Water Management

    Examples from Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland

    Edited by Petr Hlavínek, Martina Zeleňáková ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book reviews the current state of the art in managing infrastructure, urban regions, industrial regions and inhabited areas with respect to flooding and water damage. The author is a well-known expert in storm water management, and this book gives a broad overview of the different manageable components that play a role in storm water risks. It includes chapters on planning infrastructure and ... Read more

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  • Design and impact of water treaties

    Managing climate change

    by Matthew Zentner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This study presents a unique way to utilize the existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress. Literature-derived core concepts are summarized as seven treaty mechanisms categories (specificity, uncertainty management, enforcement, communications, flexibility, integrativeness, and scale) and are hypothesized as important for shaping the institutional ... Read more

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  • Blue Future

    Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

    by Maude Barlow ...
    Water is a human right: "A rousing case for what will be one of the key environmental challenges of the twenty-first century." — BooklistThe United Nations has recognized access to water as a basic human right—but there is still much work to be done to stem this growing environmental crisis. In this book, water activist Maude Barlow draws on her extensive experience to lay out a set of key ... Read more

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  • Surface Modified Carbons as Scavengers for Fluoride from Water

    Edited by Venkataraman Sivasankar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book discusses the problems and feasible remediation of fluoride contamination in groundwater. The book investigates applications of various carbons derived from bio-mass and bio-polymers. It also inquires into surface modified carbons that use inorganic ions to help remove excess fluoride ions in drinking water and wastewater effluents. The compliance of kinetic and isotherm models with ... Read more

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  • Water and Land Security in Drylands

    Response to Climate Change

    Edited by Mohamed Ouessar, Donald Gabriels, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Steven Evett ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change. As water and land are the essential ... Read more

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