Water Resources: An Integrated Approach

ISBN-13: 9781138329225 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 468 str.

Joseph Holden

Opis

This second edition provides students with a comprehensive overview of natural processes associated with water and the modifications of these processes by humans through climate change and land management, water-related health issues, engineering approaches to water and socio-economic processes of huge importance to water resources.

Spis treści

List of contributors  Preface  Acknowledgements  1. Water basics 2. The changing water cycle  3. Surface water hydrology  4. Surface water quality  5. Groundwater  6. Aquatic ecosystems  7. Water and health  8. Potable water and wastewater treatment  9. Water demand planning and management  10. Water economics  11. Water conflict, law and governance  12. Virtual water  13. The future of water  Glossary  Index

O autorze

Joseph Holden holds the Chair of Physical Geography at the University of Leeds and is research dean in the Faculty of Environment. He is Director of water@leeds, one of the world’s largest university-based interdisciplinary water research centres, and director of the UK Natural Environment Research Council’s Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme.