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21. Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations

    Edited by Elena Vázquez-Cendón, Arturo Hidalgo, Pilar Garcia Navarro, Luis Cea

    Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations is a collection of 49 articles presented at the International Conference on Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations: Theory and Applications (Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 4-8 July 2011). The conference was organized to honour Professor Eleuterio Toro...

    Published November 4th 2012 by CRC Press
22. Comprehensive Flood Risk Management

    Research for Policy and Practice

    Edited by Frans Klijn, Timo Schweckendiek

    Flood risk management policy across the European Union is changing, partly in response to the EU Floods Directive and partly because of new scientific approaches and research findings. It involves a move towards comprehensive flood risk management, which requires bringing the following fields/...

    Published October 31st 2012 by CRC Press
23. Groundwater Modeling and Management under Uncertainty

    Proceedings of the Sixth IAHR International Groundwater Symposium, Kuwait, 19 - 21 November, 2012

    Edited by Khaled Hadi, Nadim Copty

    Groundwater is a vital resource of water, in some regions of the world the only source of fresh water. Its use for domestic use and agriculture dates back thousands of years. In recent decades the over-exploitation and unabated use of this resource has lead to severe environmental problems such as...

    Published October 28th 2012 by CRC Press
24. Water Loss Management: Tools and Methods for Developing Countries

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Harrison E. Mutikanga

    Water losses occur in all water distribution systems worldwide and high levels are indicative of poor governance and poor physical condition of the system. Water losses vary from 3% of system input volume in the developed countries to 70% in the developing countries. This high contrast suggests...

    Published October 10th 2012 by CRC Press
25. Applying the Flood Vulnerability Index as a Knowledge Base for Flood Risk Assessment

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Stefania-Florina Balica

    Floods are one of the most common and widely distributed natural risks to life and property worldwide. There is a need to identify the risk of flooding in flood prone areas to support decisions for flood management from high level planning proposals to detailed design. An important part of...

    Published October 10th 2012 by CRC Press
26. Development of a Low-Cost Alternative for Metal Removal from Textile Wastewater

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Christian Sekomo Birame

    Industrial wastewater contains many pollutants. This book focuses on heavy metals found in textile effluents because of their known toxicity effect in the environment. Wastewater from a textile industry (UTEXRWA) in Rwanda has been screened for the occurrence of Cd, Cr, Cu, Pb, and Zn. Batch...

    Published October 10th 2012 by CRC Press
27. An Approach towards Generic Coastal Geomorphological Modelling with Applications

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    By Qinghua Ye

    This thesis presents the development a generic morphological model for both structured and unstructured grid. An online coupling model frame is set up by modularizing a proven 3d hydrodynamic module, a bed state description module, a sediment transport module, a bed update module, and a...

    Published October 10th 2012 by CRC Press
28. Water Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies

    Edited by M. Dinesh Kumar, M.V.K. Sivamohan, Nitin Bassi

    Series: Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management

    This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in developing economies. The book focuses primarily on India, a fast developing economy, whose natural resource base comprising land and water supporting agricultural production is not only under enormous stress, but also...

    Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
29. Water and Sanitation Services

    Public Policy and Management

    Edited by Jose Esteban Castro, Leo Heller

    Substantially reducing the number of human beings who lack access to clean water and safe sanitation is one of the key Millennium Development Goals. This book argues and demonstrates that this can only be achieved by a better integration of the technical and social science approaches in the search...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge
30. Fundamentals of Wastewater Treatment and Engineering

    By Rumana Riffat

    As the world’s population has increased, sources of clean water have decreased, shifting the focus toward pollution reduction and control. Disposal of wastes and wastewater without treatment is no longer an option. Fundamentals of Wastewater Treatment and Engineering introduces readers to the...

    Published August 16th 2012 by CRC Press