Water Security: Principles, Perspectives and Practices
ISBN: 9780415534710 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the latest research, policy, practitioner, academic and international thinking on water security-an issue that, like water governance a few years ago, has developed much policy awareness and momentum with a wide range of stakeholders. As a concept it is open to multiple interpretations, and the authors here set out the various approaches to the topic from different perspectives. Key themes addressed include:
The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the latest research, policy, practitioner, academic and international thinking on water secur... |
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314,12 zł |
The Analysis of Tidal Stream Power
ISBN: 9780470724514 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text integrates a wide range of research and tidal resource theory and data to present a detailed analysis of the physics and oceanography of tidal stream power devices together with a world wide resource analysis. Clearly structured throughout the book is divided into two distinct parts.
Part One provides the theoretical background to the subject and deals with the historical development of the harmonic method for the synthesis of tidal currents; the principles of fluid and tidal flow and the principles of device ducts, turbines and electrical systems. A review and analysis of more... This text integrates a wide range of research and tidal resource theory and data to present a detailed analysis of the physics and oceanography of tid...
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661,15 zł |
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
ISBN: 9780521760355 / Angielski / Twarda / 794 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum of topics including cloud forest distribution, climate, soils, biodiversity, hydrological processes, hydrochemistry and water quality, climate change impacts, and cloud forest conservation, management, and restoration. The final chapter presents a major synthesis by some of the world's leading cloud forest researchers, which summarizes our current knowledge and considers the sustainability of these forests in an ever-changing world. This book...
This volume represents a uniquely comprehensive overview of our current knowledge on tropical montane cloud forests. 72 chapters cover a wide spectrum...
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521,93 zł |
Contemporary Issues in Estuarine Physics
ISBN: 9780521899673 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Estuaries are of high socioeconomic importance with 22 of the 32 largest cities in the world located on river estuaries. Estuaries bring together fluxes of fresh and saline water, as well as fluvial and marine sediments, and contain high biological diversity. Increasingly sophisticated field observation technology and numerical modeling have produced significant advances in our understanding of the physical properties of estuaries over the last decade. This book introduces a classification for estuaries before presenting the basic physics and hydrodynamics of estuarine circulation and the...
Estuaries are of high socioeconomic importance with 22 of the 32 largest cities in the world located on river estuaries. Estuaries bring together flux...
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457,51 zł |
Protecting Danube River Basin Resources: Ensuring Access to Water Quality Data and Information
ISBN: 9780792343820 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eastern and Western, NATO partner and member country specialists discuss recent accomplishments in the sharing of timely, accurate data and information to protect the water resources of the Danube Basin, a strategic region shared by two Western and 11 former Communist countries. An International Commission, continuing the work of an ad hoc environmental management programme, is expected to take over in 1997 and may well adopt the recommendations of this timely workshop. These recommendations include the establishment of a central source of water quality data and information...
Eastern and Western, NATO partner and member country specialists discuss recent accomplishments in the sharing of timely, accurate data and informatio...
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389,98 zł |
Buoyancy-Driven Flows
ISBN: 9781107008878 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Buoyancy is one of the main forces driving flows on our planet, especially in the oceans and atmosphere. These flows range from buoyant coastal currents to dense overflows in the ocean, and from avalanches to volcanic pyroclastic flows on the Earth's surface. This book brings together contributions by leading world scientists to summarize our present theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling understanding of buoyancy-driven flows. Buoyancy-driven currents play a key role in the global ocean circulation and in climate variability through their impact on deep-water formation....
Buoyancy is one of the main forces driving flows on our planet, especially in the oceans and atmosphere. These flows range from buoyant coastal curren...
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611,17 zł |
Co-Engineering and Participatory Water Management
ISBN: 9781107012318 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Effective participatory water management requires effective co-engineering the collective process whereby organisational decisions are made on how to bring stakeholders together. This trans-disciplinary book highlights the challenges involved in the collective initiation, design, implementation and evaluation of water planning and management processes. It demonstrates how successful management requires the effective handling of two participatory processes: the stakeholder water management process and the co-engineering process required to organise this. The book provides practical methods for...
Effective participatory water management requires effective co-engineering the collective process whereby organisational decisions are made on how to ...
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476,32 zł |
Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management
ISBN: 9781107018747 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses. Rigorous assessment is employed to determine the available probabilistic and fuzzy set-based analytic tools, when each is appropriate and how to apply them to practical problems. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and policy and risk assessment, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, water resources engineering and environmental economics,...
Flood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing approp...
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375,94 zł |
Acid Rain - Deposition to Recovery
ISBN: 9781402058844 / Angielski / Twarda / 419 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acid rain is still with us. Although it is a problem that people have worked diligently to solve, there are still many problem areas throughout the world. In reality the focus of acid rain research has shifted, and this book adds new vision to the topic. It contains papers, selected from Acid Rain 2005, the 7th International Conference on Acid Deposition, that take a broad perspective of the issues, emphasizing a number of themes: - the emission, concentration and deposition of pollutants - nitrogen and trace elements in ecosystems and their effects on... Acid rain is still with us. Although it is a problem that people have worked diligently to solve, there are still many problem areas throughout the... |
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585,00 zł |
Florida's Water: A Fragile Resource in a Vulnerable State
ISBN: 9781617260933 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Florida has long-standing water quality problems. Global climate change threatens to intensify Florida's floods and droughts, make hurricanes common or damaging, and eventually submerge much of low-lying Florida, including the Everglades. This title poses fundamental questions about water sustainability in the United States' fourth largest state.
Florida has long-standing water quality problems. Global climate change threatens to intensify Florida's floods and droughts, make hurricanes common o...
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658,75 zł |
Valuing Ecosystem Services: The Case of Multi-Functional Wetlands
ISBN: 9781849713542 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuation of ecosystem services, using the case of multifunctional wetlands to illustrate and make recommendations regarding the methods and techniques that can be applied to appraise management options. It provides a review of ecosystem service valuation rationale, including its importance from both a policy and project appraisal perspective, and a useful reference when considering policy and appraisal of ecosystem management options. It shows how... Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people. This book provides guidance on the valuatio... |
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217,84 zł |
Karst Hydrogeology and Human Activities: Impacts, Consequences and Implications: Iah International Contributions to Hydrogeology 20
ISBN: 9789054104643 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One quarter of the world's population lives in karst terrains, yet karsts are highly vulnerable to stresses caused by human activity. This book surveys human impact on karst water, showing that the increasing pollution of the environment has, to a great extent, spoiled sensitive karst ecosystems. This text examines such consequences and offers proposals for future solutions and strategies. Part One provides an overview of the functioning of karsts and of human interaction with karst environments over several millennia. Part Two consists of a systematic examination of the major areas of human...
One quarter of the world's population lives in karst terrains, yet karsts are highly vulnerable to stresses caused by human activity. This book survey...
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405,33 zł |
Recent Studies in Geophysical Hazards
ISBN: 9789401044233 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past 20 years the costs of natural disasters have escalated significantly. The lives of over 800 million people have been disrupted and the number of catastrophes has nearly quadrupled. At present, the increasing global threat of natural disasters, in spite of our increased knowledge, is ominous. With the growth in world population, the increasing of resources in newly developing areas, and the increasing cost and sophistication of engineering structures and technical installations, there is an urgent need to seek to understand the potential threats posed by natural hazards and to...
Over the past 20 years the costs of natural disasters have escalated significantly. The lives of over 800 million people have been disrupted and the n...
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389,98 zł |
Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook
ISBN: 9781461356998 / Angielski / Miękka / 1087 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook aims to discuss, in one vol- Notwithstanding the effort that was made to ensure that each chapter is as correct as ume, a wide array of topics that have entered practicable, there is little doubt that some er- the mainstream of geopractice (i. e. geotech- nical and geoenvironmental engineering) rors (typographical or otherwise) will creep over the past two decades, while at the same into a document of this size, especially in its time not losing sight of the more conven- first printing. Readers are requested to advise tional aspects of the discipline that remain a the...
This handbook aims to discuss, in one vol- Notwithstanding the effort that was made to ensure that each chapter is as correct as ume, a wide array of ...
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194,97 zł |
Streamflow Synthesis
ISBN: 9780674189270 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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293,11 zł |
Urban Hydrology, Watershed Management and Socio-Economic Aspects
ISBN: 9783319401942 / Angielski / Twarda / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 consequence of urbanization is the change in land-use and land cover, which in turn impacts hydrological systems. Accordingly, scientific studies on urban hydrology with due emphasis on ecological and... The book brings together high-quality research articles on advanced hydrological analysis, advanced computational methods, and the ecological and s... |
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467,99 zł |
Floods and Long-Term Water-Level Changes in Medieval Hungary
ISBN: 9783319388625 / Angielski / Twarda / 895 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of the Carpathian Basin) between 1000 and 1500 AD.
The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of t...
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467,99 zł |
Volcanism and the Upper Mantle: Investigations in the Kurile Island ARC
ISBN: 9781468417692 / Angielski / Miękka / 385 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present volume seems to me to be a particularly im portant one for several reasons. Not least among these is the fact that it summarizes the work of two decades by G. S. Gorshkov, one of the world's leading volcanologists. In addition, it is the first general work of this length on the volcanism of what might be called a "narrow" island arc, a relatively simple megastructure as com pared with the "wide" arcs such as Japan and Indonesia. Finally, in this volume Gorshkov has summarized and cited extensive evi dence for his general ideas on the relation between volcanism and the earth's...
The present volume seems to me to be a particularly im portant one for several reasons. Not least among these is the fact that it summarizes the work ...
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389,98 zł |
Hydrogeologie Der Nichtverkarstungsfähigen Festgesteine
ISBN: 9783709170380 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Hydrogeologie der nichtverkarstungsfahigen, d. h. vor all em der nichtkarbonatischen oder gering karbonatischen Festgesteine hat bisher nicht geniigend Beachtung gefunden. Sie hat noch keine zusammenfassende Dar stellung ihrer besonderen Probleme und deren Bedeutung in cler Grundwasser erkundung und -gewinnung, in Grundwasserhaushaltsfragen, in vie1en inter disziplinaren Wissenschaftsgebieten - z. B. in der Umweltforschung - sowie in unterschiedlichen, besonders bautechnischen Anwendungsbereichen erfahren. Vielfaltig sind dagegen die Bemiihungen der Geologen und Hydrologen bisher gewesen,...
Die Hydrogeologie der nichtverkarstungsfahigen, d. h. vor all em der nichtkarbonatischen oder gering karbonatischen Festgesteine hat bisher nicht geni...
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309,79 zł |
Sediment/Freshwater Interactions: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium Held in Kingston, Ontario, 15-18 June 1981
ISBN: 9789400980112 / Angielski / Miękka / 702 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. P. G. Sly Canada Centre Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada Keywords: symposium, sediments, freshwater Following the highly successful First Symposium work of the symposium: on Research into the Interactions between Sedi- I. Summary of sediment dynamics and distribu- ments and Freshwater held in Amsterdam, in 1976, tion in fluvial and lacustrine environments. it was decided that a second symposium in this 2. Land use effects on sediment yields,and quality. series should be held to continue the discussions on 3. Sediments in mass balance models, including progress...
P. G. Sly Canada Centre Inland Waters, P.O. Box 5050, Burlington, Ontario L7R 4A6, Canada Keywords: symposium, sediments, freshwater Following the hig...
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1170,03 zł |