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Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development

An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans

By Marco Colazingari

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research...

Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge.

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The Science of Water

Concepts and Applications, Second Edition

By Frank R. Spellman, Frank R. Spellman

Water, water everywhere - with this in mind, the perennial question in water works remains: can the earth's finite supply of water resources be increased...

Published September 7th 2007 by CRC Press.

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Water Management Challenges in Global Change

Proceedings of the 9th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI2007) and the Sustainable Urban Water Management (SUWM) conferences, Leicester, UK, 3-5 September 2007

Edited by B. Ulanicki, Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, David Butler, Peter L. M. Bounds, Fayyaz Ali Memon

Water Management Challenges in Global Change contains the proceedings of the 9th Computing and Control for the Water Industry (CCWI2007) and the Sustainable Urban Water...

Published August 24th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping

IAH-Selected Papers, volume 11

Edited by Andrzej J. Witkowski, Andrzej Kowalczyk, Jaroslav Vrba

This volume presents the contemporary issues surrounding groundwater pollution risk assessment and the application of vulnerability and risk assessment maps for the effective protection and...

Published August 24th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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Advances in Spatio-Temporal Analysis

in: ISPRS Book Series, Vol. 5

Edited by Xinming Tang, Yaolin Liu, Jixian Zhang, Wolfgang Kainz

Developments in Geographic Information Technology have raised the expectations of users. A static map is no longer enough; there is now demand for a dynamic...

Published August 23rd 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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Environmental Policy

Edited by Jane Roberts

‘Environmental policy’ has been defined as ‘a set of principles and intentions used to guide decision-making about human management of environmental capital and environmental services’....

Published August 9th 2007 by Routledge.

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Climate Change and Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration in Central Asia

Edited by Rattan Lal, M. Suleimenov, B.A. Stewart, D.O. Hansen, Paul Doraiswamy

This book brings together current knowledge of terrestrial C sequestration in Central Asia. The themes treated include: biophysical environments, water resources, sustainable agriculture, soil degradation,...

Published August 2nd 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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Wetlands: Monitoring, Modelling and Management

Edited by Tomasz Okruszko, Edward Maltby, Jan Szatylowicz, Dorota Miroslaw-Swiatek, Wiktor Kotowski

Wetlands are complex and dynamic ecological systems incorporating two important, inter-linked components: hydrology and vegetation. Modelling wetland components and processes reveals the nature of wetland...

Published July 26th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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Fundamentals of Geomorphology

By Richard Huggett

This extensively revised and updated edition continues to present an engaging and comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world’s landforms from a broad systems...

Published July 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Transport of Escherichia coli in Saturated Porous Media

PhD, Unesco-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands

By Jan Willem Foppen

When wastewater infiltrates into the soil, groundwater may be contaminated. If the distance from source of pollution to point of groundwater abstraction is small, there...

Published July 18th 2007 by Taylor and Francis.

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