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General Hydrogeology by E. V. Pinneker 9780521154833
RRP: £38.99£31.31This volume was originally published in 1983. It is concerned with the features of and the laws governing the occurrence of water in the interior of the Earth. Special attention is paid to the origin of the water in the interior of the Earth, the manner... -
Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems: Soil Moisture and Plant Dynamics by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 9780521036740
RRP: £61.99£55.91Ecohydrology of Water-Controlled Ecosystems addresses the connections between the hydrologic cycle and plant ecosystems, with special emphasis on arid and semi-arid climates. This important topic is treated by building suitable mathematical models of the... -
New Uncertainty Concepts in Hydrology and Water Resources by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz 9780521036733
RRP: £66.99£60.30Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Space and Time Scale Variability and Interdependencies in Hydrological Processes by Reinder A. Feddes 9780521022934
RRP: £48.99£40.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
An Operator's Guide to Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) in the Activated Sludge Process by Michael Gerardi 9780820604169
£54.74Biological nutrient removal (BNR), the removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater, is a complex process. Although the activated sludge process is an efficient technology for the removal of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended... -
Gravitational Systems of Groundwater Flow: Theory, Evaluation, Utilization by Jozsef Toth 9780521886383
RRP: £126.00£103.07This book recognizes groundwater flow as a fundamental geologic agent, and presents a wide-ranging and illustrated overview of its history, principles, scientific consequences and practical utilization. The author, one of the founding fathers of modern... -
Creep and Fracture of Ice by Erland M. Schulson 9780521806206
RRP: £132.00£113.82This is the first complete account of the physics of the creep and fracture of ice, and their interconnectivity. It investigates the deformation of low-pressure ice, which is fundamental to glaciers, polar ice sheets and the uppermost region of icy moons... -
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Science for Conservation and Management by L. A. Bruijnzeel 9780521760355
RRP: £103.00£92.27This 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,... -
Dynamic Programming Based Operation of Reservoirs: Applicability and Limits by K.D.W. Nandalal 9780521874083
RRP: £110.00£93.23Dynamic programming is a method of solving multi-stage problems in which decisions at one stage become the conditions governing the succeeding stages. It can be applied to the management of water reservoirs, allowing them to be operated more efficiently... -
World Water Resources at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by I. A. Shiklomanov 9780521617222
RRP: £92.99£81.04This volume provides a modern assessment of the state of the world's water resources. It collects in one place a huge amount of data. A uniform methodological approach for each continent is then built upon to analyse the dynamics of water resources,... -
Groundwater in Geologic Processes by Steven E. Ingebritsen 9780521603218
RRP: £96.99£82.84The 2006 second edition of this well received and widely adopted textbook has been extensively revised to provide a more comprehensive treatment of hydromechanics (the coupling of groundwater flow and deformation), to incorporate findings from the... -
Snow Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Snow-Covered Ecosystems by H. G. Jones 9780521584838
RRP: £90.00£81.43Originally published in 2001, Snow Ecology was the first book to integrate the study of snow and ice in the physical, chemical and biological sciences into a multidisciplinary overview of life in, on and under snow. The book opens up a perspective on... -
Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Hydrological Regimes by Jan C. van Dam 9780521543316
RRP: £52.99£47.61Water is going to be one of the key, if not the most critical, environmental issues in the twenty-first century because of the escalation in socio-economic pressures on the environment in general. Any future climate change or climate variability will... -
Global Water Resource Issues by G.J. Young 9780521467124
RRP: £61.99£50.84The world's water resources are coming under increasing stress, a stress that will become critical globally sometime during the next century. This is due to the rapidly rising population demanding more and more water and an increasing level of affluence... -
Rising Waters: The Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States by Samuel David Brody 9780521193214
RRP: £120.00£97.74In 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... -
Hydrological Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas by Howard Wheater 9780521869188
RRP: £132.00£107.99Arid and semi-arid regions are defined as areas where water is at its most scarce. The hydrological regime in these areas is extreme and highly variable, and they face great pressures to deliver and manage freshwater resources. However, there is no... -
Tropical Glaciers by Georg Kaser 9780521020961
RRP: £67.99£60.78Tropical glaciers are both highly sensitive indicators of global climate and fresh water reservoirs in some fast developing regions. This book gives a theoretical and practical analysis of tropical glaciology including a useful definition of tropical... -
Risk, Reliability, Uncertainty, and Robustness of Water Resource Systems by Janos J. Bogardi 9780521020411
RRP: £55.99£50.64Risk, Reliability, Uncertainty, and Robustness of Water Resource Systems is based on the Third George Kovacs Colloquium organized by the International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO) and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences. Thirty-five... -
Subsurface Flow and Transport: A Stochastic Approach by Gedeon Dagan 9780521020091
RRP: £71.99£65.47This book describes a major method in modelling the flow of water and transport of solutes in the subsurface, a subject of considerable interest in the exploitation and preservation of water resources. The stochastic approach allows the uncertainty which... -
Sustainability Criteria for Water Resource Systems by Daniel P. Loucks 9780521089173
RRP: £40.99£33.26Water resources professionals have an obligation to conceive and manage water resource systems such that they will fully contribute to an improved quality of life for all humans, now and into the future. Those water resource systems that will be able to... -
River Variability and Complexity by Stanley A. Schumm 9780521040990
RRP: £50.99£44.60Rivers differ among themselves and through time. An individual river can vary significantly downstream, changing its dimensions and pattern dramatically over a short distance. If hydrology and hydraulics were the primary controls on the morphology and... -
Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self-Organization by Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe 9780521004053
RRP: £105.00£85.95This book considers river basins and drainage networks in the light of their scaling and multi-scaling properties, and the dynamics responsible for their development. The hydrology of river basins, and prediction of their growth, demands knowledge of a... -
Geological Fluid Dynamics: Sub-surface Flow and Reactions by Owen M. Phillips 9780521865555
RRP: £78.99£71.67This book is the long-awaited successor to Owen M. Phillips's classic textbook, Flow and Reactions in Permeable Rocks, published in 1991. In the intervening eighteen years between the two, significant advances have been made to our understanding of... -
Economics of Water Resources The Contributions of Dan Yaron by Ariel Dinar 9780792376927
RRP: £89.99£89.87Colleagues and friends of Dan Yaron submitted the following tributes. While each submission comes from an individual who knew Dan in a very different way, they all remark on his immeasurable contributions to the field of agricultural eco nomics, his... -
Protecting Danube River Basin Resources: Ensuring Access to Water Quality Data and Information by I.L. Murphy 9780792343820
RRP: £89.99£89.87Eastern 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... -
The Chemical Analysis Of Water: General Principles and Techniques by D.T.E. Hunt 9780851867977
£79.26This edition covers the considerable developments which have taken place (in the 11 years since the first edition was published) in the measurement of water quality, with particular reference to methods for estimating and controlling possible errors in... -
Transboundary Water Resources in the Balkans: Initiating a Sustainable Co-operative Network by Jacques G. Ganoulis 9780792365563
RRP: £89.99£89.87A source of up-to-date information on current water resources, their quality and quantity, in every country in the Balkans. Institutional structures, water management issues and water monitoring problems are analyzed, with special reference to... -
Soil Geomorphology by John Gerrard 9780412441806
£90.27Soil geomorphology is the accurate assessment of the genetic relationship of soils and landforms, which is possible only if their interdependence is recognized. This book provides an integration of geomorphology and pedology. Students and scientists in... -
Recent Studies in Geophysical Hazards by Mohammed I. El-Sabh 9780792329725
£90.27Over 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... -
Runoff, Infiltration and Subsurface Flow of Water in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions by Arie S. Issar 9780792340348
RRP: £89.99£89.87Arid and semi-arid regions can be defined as environments in which water is the limit ing factor for bio-systems. This means that survival of life in these regions involves a constant struggle to obtain this limited commodity and draw the maximum benefit... -
Against the Current: Privatization, Water Markets, and the State in Chile by Carl J. Bauer 9780792382270
RRP: £89.99£89.87In 1981 Chile's military government dictated a new Water Code that radically changed the country's previous water rights system by strengthening private property rights, favoring market incentives, and reducing state regulation. Against the Current:... -
Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management by J. Marsalek 9780792364528
£90.27In 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... -
Global Energy and Water Cycles by K.A. Browning 9780521032858
RRP: £36.99£28.78The abundance of water in all three phases makes the Earth unique in the solar system. Knowledge of the fluxes and changes of phase of water are essential for an understanding of weather, climate and, indeed, of life itself. This book provides a... -
Tsunamis in the World: Fifteenth International Tsunami Symposium, 1991 by Stefano Tinti 9780792323167
RRP: £89.99£89.87estimate tsunami potential by computing seismic moment. This system holds promise for a new generation of local tsunami warning systems. Shuto (Japan) described his conversion of !ida's definition of tsunami magnitude to local tsunami efforts. For... -
Risk Management and Society by Eve Coles 9780792368991
£90.27Recent events like the BSE and GM food crises, and the Concorde crash in July 2000, have illustrated that large private and public sector organisations are vulnerable and can suffer from major disruption to their business. Awareness of the need to... -
Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues by Karrie Lynn Pennington 9780521869881
RRP: £57.99£57.68How much water does the world need to support growing human populations? What factors influence water quality, droughts, floods, and waterborne diseases? What are the potential effects of climate change on the world's water resources? These questions and... -
Scale Dependence and Scale Invariance in Hydrology by Garrison Sposito 9780521088589
RRP: £41.99£32.68Whether processes in the natural world are dependent or independent of the scale at which they operate is one of the major issues in hydrologic science. In this volume, leading hydrologists present their views on the role of scale effects in hydrologic... -
The Lerma-Chapala Watershed: Evaluation and Management by Anne M. Hansen 9780306467479
£90.27James O. Leckie Environmental Engineering and Science Program, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4020, USA Nearly 10 years have passed since the beginning of the systematic studies of the... -
Knowing the Salween River: Resource Politics of a Contested Transboundary River by Vanessa Lamb 9781013276439
RRP: £50.95£44.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013276439Author Vanessa LambFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g -
Flood Issues in Contemporary Water Management by J. Marsalek 9780792364511
£90.27In 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...