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Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920
ISBN: 9780700611119 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume features the best and most influential essays by Donald Pisani, one of our nation's leading environmental and western historians. Collectively, the essays highlight the central role played by land, water, and timber allocation in the American West and show how efforts to achieve justice and efficiency were compromised by the region's obsession with achieving rapid economic growth. Pisani's work underscores the importance of natural resources to the American vision of opportunity and social progress, as well as the limits of federal influence in resolving the complex tensions...
This volume features the best and most influential essays by Donald Pisani, one of our nation's leading environmental and western historians. Collecti...
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117,02 |
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Managing Water Conflict: Asia, Africa and the Middle East
ISBN: 9780714655666 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countries are meeting increasing water demand by building reservoirs and by diverting water from one area to another. When the water belongs to an international river system, these measures lead to riparian conflicts. However, water scarcity not only brings conflict to these regions, but also plays its part in building cooperation.
In several international river basins in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, competing and disputing riparian countries are now moving towards a co-operative sharing arrangement. The signs of agreements on water sharing may be easy, but the real problem is how to... Countries are meeting increasing water demand by building reservoirs and by diverting water from one area to another. When the water belongs to an int...
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438,95 |
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Principles of Water Quality Control
ISBN: 9780750636582 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Principles of Water Quality Control is the definitive student text in its field for 25 years, this new edition takes an environmental perspective that is highly relevant in the context of current public policy debates. New material also includes EU regulations and changes in the UK water industry since privatisation. The latest technological developments are also taken into account. As before, the book is intended for undergraduate courses in civil engineering and the environmental sciences, and as preliminary reading for postgraduate courses in public health engineering and... Principles of Water Quality Control is the definitive student text in its field for 25 years, this new edition takes an environmental perspe... |
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302,37 |
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Managing Water and Water Users: Experiences from Kerala
ISBN: 9780761825579 / Angielski / Miękka / 123 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Managing Water and Water Users offers an answer to the question of why Kerala remains a water-scarce region despite having a regular and adequate rainfall. The papers presented in this volume deal with the multifarious aspects of conservation, management and sharing of water resources.
Managing Water and Water Users offers an answer to the question of why Kerala remains a water-scarce region despite having a regular and adequate rain...
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344,68 |
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Eau Canada: The Future of Canada's Water
ISBN: 9780774813402 / Angielski / Miękka / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Canada has long been seen as a land of natural bounty?a country of lush forests, abundant agriculture, and pristine lakes. Even as the sustainability of many resources has been questioned, Canadians have remaind stubbornly convinced of the unassailability of their water. Mounting evidence suggests, however, that Canadian water is, in fact, under threat. Eau Canada assembles top experts to discuss the most pressing water issues. Perspectives from a broad range of expertise?geographers, environmental lawyers, former govenrmnet officials, aquatic and political scientists, and... Canada has long been seen as a land of natural bounty?a country of lush forests, abundant agriculture, and pristine lakes. Even as the sustainabili... |
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146,29 |
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Groundwater Contamination in the United States
ISBN: 9780812212563 / Angielski / Miękka / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Surveys current contamination levels, identifies possible health hazards, and suggests ways to protect and monitor groundwater quality.
Surveys current contamination levels, identifies possible health hazards, and suggests ways to protect and monitor groundwater quality.
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175,60 |
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Storm Water Management and Technology
ISBN: 9780815513278 / Angielski / Twarda / 375 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides industrial facilities with comprehensive guidance on the development of storm water pollution prevention plans and identification of Best Management Practices (BMPs). It provides technical assistance and support to all facilities suibject to pollution prevention requirements established under National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits for storm water point discharge discharges. In addition to providing guidance for facilities that are subject to storm water permit requirements, this book contains information that is generally useful for controlling...
This book provides industrial facilities with comprehensive guidance on the development of storm water pollution prevention plans and identification o...
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214,58 |
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Fluid Arguments: Five Centuries of Western Water Conflict
ISBN: 9780816520619 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water or the lack of it has shaped the contours of the American West and continues to dominate the region's development. From the incursions of the Spanish conquistadores to the dams of the New Deal era, humans have sought water in these arid lands as the key to survival and success. And as the West becomes more urbanized, water is an issue as never before. This book sets contemporary and often bitter debates over water in their historical contexts by examining some of the most contentious issues that have confronted the region over five centuries.
Seventeen contributors representing... Water or the lack of it has shaped the contours of the American West and continues to dominate the region's development. From the incursions of the Sp...
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204,87 |
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Fuel for Growth: Water and Arizona's Urban Environment
ISBN: 9780816521708 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities in the arid West would not be what they are today without water and the technology needed to deliver it to users. The history of water development in Arizona goes hand in hand with the state's economic growth, and Arizona's future is inextricably tied to this scarce resource.
Fuel for Growth describes and interprets the history of water resource development and its relationship to urban development in Arizona's three signature cities: Phoenix, Tucson, and Flagstaff. These three urban areas could hardly be more different: a growth-oriented metropolis, an environmentally... Cities in the arid West would not be what they are today without water and the technology needed to deliver it to users. The history of water d...
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102,39 |
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Precolumbian Water Management: Ideology, Ritual, and Power
ISBN: 9780816523146 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples, water was as essential as maize for sustenance and was a driving force in the development of complex society. Control of water shaped the political, economic, and religious landscape of the ancient Americas, yet it is often overlooked in Precolumbian studies. Now one volume offers the latest thinking on water systems and their place within the ancient physical and mental language of the region. Precolumbian Water Management examines water management from both economic and symbolic perspectives. Water management facilities, settlement...
Among ancient Mesoamerican and Southwestern peoples, water was as essential as maize for sustenance and was a driving force in the development of comp...
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253,65 |
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Making the Most of Scarcity: Accountability for Better Water Management in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780821369258 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water in the Middle East and North Africa region is a source of major social and economic problems stemming from scarcity, variability, unreliable services, and environmental damage. The situation is likely to become even worse in the future, unless current practices change: by 2050 per capita availability will fall by half, water quality will deteriorate further, and more aquifers will become depleted. Climate change is predicted to worsen the problems by increasing temperatures and causing more droughts and floods. While water professionals have been advocating comprehensive water reforms...
Water in the Middle East and North Africa region is a source of major social and economic problems stemming from scarcity, variability, unreliable ser...
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121,89 |
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Chemical and Isotopic Groundwater Hydrology
ISBN: 9780824747046 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This updated and expanded edition provides a thorough understanding of the measurable properties of groundwater systems and the knowledge to apply hydrochemical, geological, isotopic, and dating approaches to their work. This volume includes question and answer discussions for key concepts presented in the text and the basic hydrological, geological, and physical parameters to be observed and measured. Chemical and Isotopic Groundwater Hydrology, Third Edition covers the chemical tools of groundwater hydrology, the isotopic composition of water and groundwater dating by tritum, carbon-14,...
This updated and expanded edition provides a thorough understanding of the measurable properties of groundwater systems and the knowledge to apply hyd...
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1268,22 |
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Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest
ISBN: 9780826318596 / Angielski / Miękka / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, are acequias, or community irrigation ditches, a wise and efficient use of water in the arid Southwest? Jose Rivera presents the contemporary case for the value of acequias and the communities they nurture in the river valleys of southern Colorado and New Mexico. Recognizing that "water is the lifeblood of the community," Rivera delineates an...
Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New...
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117,02 |
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High and Dry: The Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River (Revised)
ISBN: 9780826324306 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water law, water politics, and especially water shenanigans are at the centre of this book about New Mexico and Texas dividing the Pecos River. On one level the story is about a twenty-year court case, Texas vs New Mexico, a monstrous law suit between two states sharing a common water source, a state boundary, and a long history of mutual enmity. On another level, this story is as big and far-reaching as the high plains drained by the Pecos: it is part memoir, part biography, and part environmental history, part the history of hydrology, and part a contribution to the annals of litigation in...
Water law, water politics, and especially water shenanigans are at the centre of this book about New Mexico and Texas dividing the Pecos River. On one...
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97,50 |
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GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems
ISBN: 9780849320972 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Professionals involved in the planning, design, operation, and construction of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need to understand the productivity-enhancing applications of GIS. Inspired by an ASCE-sponsored continuing education course taught by the author, GIS Applications for Water, Wastewater, and Stormwater Systems focuses on the practical aspects of software and data tools that enable GIS applications. The book documents and analyzes effective use of GIS, demonstrating how you can apply the technology to make tasks easier to perform, saving time and money for your...
Professionals involved in the planning, design, operation, and construction of water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need to understand the produc...
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926,78 |
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Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling
ISBN: 9780849333484 / Angielski / Twarda / 828 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coupling the basics of hygrogeology with analytical and numerical modeling methods, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition provides detailed coverage of both theory and practice. Written by a leading hydrogeologist who has consulted for industry and environmental agencies and taught at major universities around the world, this unique book fills a gap in the groundwater hydrogeology literature. With more than 40 real-world examples, the book is a source for clear, easy-to-understand, and step-by-step quantitative groundwater evaluation and contaminant fate and transport...
Coupling the basics of hygrogeology with analytical and numerical modeling methods, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling, Second Edition provides det...
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853,61 |
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Submarine Groundwater
ISBN: 9780849335761 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sustainable management of water resources is quickly increasing in importance on a global scale. An important piece of the puzzle is the characterization of marine water and determining its importance to geochemical budgets. To do this, submarine groundwater discharges must be carefully studied. Comprehensively exploring the subject, Submarine Groundwater presents quantitative data relating groundwater contribution to the water/salt balance of regional and global bodies of water.
The authors examine different data-supported methods for studying submarine groundwater flow and... Sustainable management of water resources is quickly increasing in importance on a global scale. An important piece of the puzzle is the characterizat...
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878,00 |
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Water, Wastewater, and Sludge Filtration
ISBN: 9780849369834 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive and up-to-date account of filtration in solid-liquid separation processes, with a sharp focus on the influence of pro-cess variables on performance and specific applications is pre-sented in this volume. With contribu-tions from researchers with significant industrial experi-ence, as well as by senior academics, this publication fea-tures a deep bed filtration overview with informa-tion on mathematical modeling and application in wastewater treat-ment. Pre-treatment filtration techniques such as cartridge filters, pre-coat filters and micro screening are included. Membrane...
A comprehensive and up-to-date account of filtration in solid-liquid separation processes, with a sharp focus on the influence of pro-cess variables o...
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2438,89 |
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Waste Treatment in the Process Industries
ISBN: 9780849372339 / Angielski / Twarda / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Derived from the second edition of the popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment, Waste Treatment in the Process Industries outlines the fundamentals and latest developments in waste treatment in various process industries, such as pharmaceuticals, textiles, petroleum, soap, detergent, phosphate, paper, pulp, pesticides, rubber, and power. Comprehensive in scope, it provides information that is directly applicable to daily waste...
Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Derived...
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1073,11 |
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Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry
ISBN: 9780849372360 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Recognizing the need for a comprehensive reference on the technologies and strategies available for waste treatment in specific industries, four well-respected editors have collaborated to produce the highly popular Handbook of Industrial and Hazardous Wastes Treatment. Derived from the second edition of this handbook, Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry outlines the latest developments, practical strategies, processes, and best practices for waste...
Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes. Recognizing the ...
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707,28 |
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