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  • Water Politics and Political Culture

    Turkey’s compatibility with the European Union

    by Onur Oktem ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents an analysis of the main traits of the Turkish political culture and articulates some of the most important deeply embedded social qualifications of political life in Turkey. It reveals that when water management is historically and socially shaped by heavily technical knowledge systems of engineering it becomes a particularly useful tool for various political interests. The book ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Blue Gold

    The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

    by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    "Probably the most eloquent call to arms we're likely to hear about the politics of water" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto).In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). Our ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wastewater Gardener

    Preserving the Planet One Flush at a Time

    by Mark Nelson, PhD ...
    Mark Nelson, PhD, has worked for several decades in closed ecological systems research. As one of eight brave souls enclosed in the pioneering Biosphere 2 experiment for two years in 1991-1993, Nelson learned fi rst hand how essential the proper use of human waste is to the health of the planet. This realization, combined with his lifelong love aff air with constructed wetlands, led to the ... Read more

    $11.59 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

  • Ancient Water Technologies

    Edited by L. Mays ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    There is no more fundamental resource than water. The basis of all life, water is fast becoming a key issue in today’s world, as well as a source of conflict. This fascinating book, which sets out many of the ingenious methods by which ancient societies gathered, transported and stored water, is a timely publication as overextraction and profligacy threaten the existence of aquifers and ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Control and Instrumentation for Wastewater Treatment Plants

    by Reza Katebi, Michael A Johnson, Jacqueline Wilkie ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies…, new challenges. Much of this development work resides in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East

    Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace

    by Christopher Ward, Sandra Ruckstuhl ...
    The countries that make up the MENA region display wide diversity. One of the poorest countries in the world sits alongside two of the wealthiest, whilst the region's natural resources range from immeasurable oil and gas reserves to some of the scantiest natural endowments anywhere in the world. Yet through this diversity runs a common thread: water scarcity. Now, through the impact of human ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Adaptive Water Management

    Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development

    by Farideh Delavari Edalat, M. Reza Abdi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors.The key characteristics of AWM i.e. polycentric governance, organisational ... Read more

    $107.09 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

  • Basalt Intrusions in Evaporites

    Translated by Ralph B. Phillips ...
    by Bernhard J. Knipping ...
    Series Book 24 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

    $89.09 USD

  • Environmental Microbiology of Aquatic and Waste Systems

    by Nduka Okafor ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book places the main actors in environmental microbiology, namely the microorganisms, on center stage. Using the modern approach of 16S ribosomal RNA, the book looks at the taxonomy of marine and freshwater bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae, viruses, and the smaller aquatic animals such as nematodes and rotifers, as well as at the study of unculturable aquatic microorganisms (metagenomics). ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 204

    Edited by David M. Whitacre ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD