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Assessment of the Effects of Climate Variability and Land-Use Changes on the Hydrology of the Meuse River Basin

PhD: UNESCO-IHE Institute, Delft

By Tu Min

Anthropogenic climate change may lead to intensification of the global hydrological cysle and to increased flooding risk of rivers across Europe. A series of extreme…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41694-8 (Taylor & Francis)

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Soil and Water Contamination

From Molecular to Catchment Scale

By Marcel van der Perk

This textbook provides a general overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contamination, in such a way that the reader can both understand and…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40943-8 (Taylor & Francis)

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Expansive Soils

Recent Advances in Characterization and Treatment

Edited by Amer Ali Al-Rawas, Mattheus F.A. Goosen

Expansive soils are a worldwide problem. The estimated damage to buildings, roads and other structures built on expansive soils exceeds fifteen billion US dollars annually.…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39681-3 (Taylor & Francis)

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Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advanced Experimental Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Trento, Italy, 27-29 June 2005

Edited by Alessandro Tarantino, E. Romero, Y.J. Cui

The field of experimental unsaturated soil mechanics has grown considerably over the last decade. In the laboratory and in the field, innovative techniques have been…

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2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38337-0 (Taylor & Francis)

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Landslides

Proceedings of the First European Conference on Landslides, Prague, Czech Republic, 24-26 June 2002

Edited by J. Rybar, J. Stemberk, P. Wagner

The proceedings contain five invited lectures and 99 papers relevant to landslide occurrence and problems from Europe, Asia, America, Africa and Australia and New Zealand.…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-9058093936 (Taylor & Francis)

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Stability of Rock Structures

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference ICADD-5, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 6-10 October 2002

Edited by Y.H. Hatzor

This volume presents 24 peer-reviewed papers on discontinuous analysis in geological materials. It also explores issues such as fracture mechanics modelling in the new manifold…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-9058095190 (Taylor & Francis)

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Frontiers of Rock Mechanics and Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

Edited by Wang Sijing, Fu Bingjun, Li Zhonkui

These proceedings contain the scientific contributions presented at the 2nd Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ISRM 2001 - 2nd ARMS). The theme of the symposium was…

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2001 | Hardback: 978-9026518515 (Taylor & Francis)

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Palaeohistoria 39,40 (1997-1998)

Institute of Archaeology, Groningen, the Netherlands

By University of Groningen, Netherlands The Biological-Archaeological Institute

This annual covers excavation reports and analytical studies on archaeology, palaeobotany and archaeozoology. Topics covered include the Allerod vegetation of southeastern Friesland, Bronze Age metal…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-9054104650 (Taylor & Francis)

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Soils and Environment

By Steve Ellis, Tony Mellor

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-06888-8 (Routledge)

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Geomorphology of Desert Dunes

By Nicholas Lancaster

1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-06094-3 (Routledge)

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