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  • 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

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  • Water and Wastewater Treatment

    A Guide for the Nonengineering Professional, Second Edition

    by Joanne E. Drinan, Frank Spellman ...
    Lauded for its engaging, highly readable style, the best-selling first edition became the premier guide for nonengineers involved in water and wastewater treatment operations. Water and Wastewater Treatment: A Guide for the Nonengineering Professional, Second Edition continues to provide a simple, nonmathematical account of the unit processes used ... Read more

    $210.00 USD

  • Arsenic and Fluoride Contamination

    A Pakistan Perspective

    by Abida Farooqi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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

    $49.49 USD

  • Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications

    Edited by Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Andrzej Kijko, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Ilya Zaliapin ...
    Series Book 1 - Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
    This book presents a unique, interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and social science methodologies. Bringing together leading scientists, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, it presents the risks of global hazards such as volcanoes, seismic events, landslides, hurricanes, precipitation floods and space weather, and provides ... Read more

    $107.49 USD

  • 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

    $89.09 USD

  • Flood!

    by Anita Ganeri ...
    Series series Nature's Fury
    Flood! describes how and why floods happen. ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Estimating Groundwater Recharge

    by Richard W. Healy, Bridget R. Scanlon ...
    Understanding groundwater recharge is essential for successful management of water resources and modeling fluid and contaminant transport within the subsurface. This book provides a critical evaluation of the theory and assumptions that underlie methods for estimating rates of groundwater recharge. Detailed explanations of the methods are provided - allowing readers to apply many of the techniques ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Sea-Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence: Causes, Consequences, and Strategies

    Edited by B.U. Haq, J.D. Milliman ...
    Series Book 2 - Coastal Systems and Continental Margins
    Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century. What is commonly absent in the discussion of rising sea level, however, is the role played by the subsidence of low-lying coastal areas, which can have a far greater local effect than the eustatic rise of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Non-Hydrostatic Free Surface Flows

    by Oscar Castro-Orgaz, Willi H. Hager ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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. In this context, it presents higher order flow equations, together with their applications in a broad range of pertinent engineering and environmental problems, including open channel, groundwater, and granular material ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Tsunami: Progress in Prediction, Disaster Prevention and Warning

    Edited by Nobuo Shuto, Yoshito Tsuchiya † ...
    Series Book 4 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    Under the auspices of the Tsunami Commission of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and the International Coordination Group of the International Oceanographic Commission, the IUGGIIOC International Tsunami Symposium, TSUNAMI '93 (Sixteenth International Tsunami Symposium) was held in Wakayama, Olle of the most historical areas in the prevention of tsunami disasters in Japan, from 23 ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin

    Perspectives from the Danubian Countries

    Edited by Mitja Brilly ...
    The Danube River Basin is shared by 19 countries and there is no river basin in the world shared by so many nations. Europe’s second largest river basin with a total 2 area of about 800,000 km is also home to 83 million people of different cultures, languages and historical backgrounds. Management of common water sources and overcoming dif?culties caused by droughts and ?oods requires co-operation ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Rising Waters

    The Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States

    by Samuel D. Brody, Wesley E. Highfield, Jung Eun Kang ...
    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, this interdisciplinary book brings together five years of empirical research funded by the National Science Foundation. It explores the causes of flooding in the United States and the ways in which local communities can reduce the associated human casualties and property damage. Focussing on Texas and Florida, the authors ... Read more

    $43.49 USD