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Sustainable Climate Action and Water Management
This book discusses various issues relating to water resources, climate change and sustainable development. Water is the main driving force behind three major pillars of sustainable development: environmental, social and economic. As stated in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, development of these pillars rests on the availability and management of resources to fulfill the deman…
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- 978-981-15-8237-0
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- xxi, 342p.:ill
- Series Title
- Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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- 553.7 Sus
Sustainable Bioconversion of Waste to Value Added Products
This edited book discusses various processes of feedstocks bioconversion such as bioconversion of food waste, human manure, industrial waste, beverage waste, kitchen waste, organic waste, fruit and vegetable, poultry waste, solid waste, agro-industrial waste, cow dung, steroid, lignocellulosic residue, biomass, natural gas etc. Nowadays, the industrial revolution and urbanization have made h…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-61837-7
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- vi, 393p.:ill
- Series Title
- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
- Call Number
- 553.7 Sus
Water Pollution and Management Practices
Water pollution is a matter of concern for both developing and developed parts of the world. This book presents an overview on water pollution and its sustainable management. The book discusses the fundamental aspects of water pollution as well as advanced sustainable technologies for abating water pollution. It is a comprehensive collection of information related with water pollutants which ar…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-15-8358-2
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- xvi, 331p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
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- 553.7 Wat
Water Science and Sustainability
This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments. Hence, conservation, management and development of water resources have become necessary for the all-around development of global populations and the environment. It is the outcome of valuable contributions made by eminent scientists and research …
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- 978-3-030-57488-8
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- xiv, 255p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
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- 553.7 Wat
Water Pollution and Remediation: Photocatalysis
In the context of climate change and fossil fuel pollution, solar energy appears as a cheap and sustainable fuel for many environmental applications, yet the efficiency of techniques has to be improved. This book reviews recent methods and applications of photocatalysis for the treatment of wastewater containing bacteria, heavy metals, organic pollutants, dyes and tannery effluents. Basics of w…
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- 978-3-030-54723-3
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- xv, 438p.:ill
- Series Title
- Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World
- Call Number
- 577.6 Wat
Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources
This book provides insights and a capacity to understand the climate change phenomenon, its impact on water resources, and possible remedial measures. The impact of climate change on water resources is a global issue and cause for concern. Water resources in many countries are extremely stressed, and climate change along with burgeoning populations, the rise in living standards, and increasing …
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-64202-0
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- xvi, 551p.:ill
- Series Title
- Water Science and Technology Library
- Call Number
- 553.7 Cli
Groundwater and Society
This volume advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to groundwater resource management, mapping, monitoring, and modelling using up-to-date remote sensing and GIS techniques. The book further provides a critical analysis of the debates and discourses surrounding groundwater resources and society, illustrates the relationship between…
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- 978-3-030-64136-8
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- xvi, 534p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 553.7 Gro
Sustainable Water Solutions in the Western Desert, Egypt: Dakhla Oasis
This book is a multidisciplinary manuscript bringing together contributions on water issues from natural and social scientists focused on water management and structures in a challenging environmental situation such as Dakhla Oasis in Egypt's western desert. The authors of this book are relevant scientists in hydrology, geology, remote sensing, agriculture, history, and sociology. It is devoted…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-64005-7
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- viii, 298p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Sus
Riverine Ecology Volume 1
This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones. The set provides a considerable volume of research on the biodiversity co…
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- 1 Volume 1
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- 978-3-030-53897-2
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- xxxiii, 566p.:ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 553.7 Cha r
Riverine Ecology Volume 2
This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones. The set provides a considerable volume of research on the biodiversity co…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-53941-2
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- XLIII, 917p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Cha r
Geostatistics and Geospatial Technologies for Groundwater Resources in India
This book offers essential information on geospatial technologies for water resource management and highlights the latest GIS and geostatistics techniques as they relate to groundwater. Groundwater is inarguably India's single most important natural resource. It is the foundation of millions of Indian farmers' livelihood security and the primary source of drinking water for a vast majority o…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-62397-5
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- xxv, 598p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Geo
The Nile Waters
This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers. Exploiting advanced statistical techniques and the latest state-of-the-art multi-mission satellites, surface models and reanalysis products, this book provides the first comprehensive weighing of the changes in the Nile River Basin’s (NRB: ~ 3,400,000…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-64756-8
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- xvii, 267p.:Ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Awa t
Quality of Water Resources in Poland
This book presents state-of-the-art knowledge concerning water quality in Poland. It offers a wide variety of cases and issues on water resource quality management. The book also presents different methods and strategies to effectively use the most advanced water resource quality problems such as water pollution, whether physical, chemical, or biological, of surface water resources and groundwa…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-64892-3
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- xii, 464p.:lll
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- -
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- 553.7 Qua
New Frontiers of Nanomaterials in Environmental Science
This book provides the detail information about nanoparticles, their types, characterization techniques such as TEM, FESEM, AFM, XRD etc. nanogenotoxicity, metal and metal oxide nanoparticle’s toxicity, physical and chemical characterization of nanomaterials, entry routes, cell-nano interaction studies, possible impacts to the human kind, and on the methods of evaluating the toxicity. It puts…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-15-9239-3
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- VIII, 297p.:ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 553.7 New
Management of Irrigation and Water Supply Under Climatic Extremes
This volume provides a theoretical basis for the argument that available research that analyzes the impacts of climate on hydrology, water resources, and water systems, without factoring in the effect of climate variability, are inadequate and often misleading. Also, the book empirically shows that the impacts of climate variability on hydrology and water resources, and irrigation, water suppl…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-59459-6
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- xxv, 371p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Man
Mitigating Environmental Stresses for Agricultural Sustainability in Egypt
This book focuses on the soil and environmental resources and how to utilize them under Egyptian conditions to achieve tolerance to environmental abiotic stresses, i.e., drought, heat, salt, pollutants, and biotic stresses such as disease resistance. Further, it explores ways to increase productivity, improve the quality of field crops, and reduce the food gap. The application of modern technol…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-64323-2
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- xiv, 590p.:ill
- Series Title
- Springer Water
- Call Number
- 553.7 Mit
Water Footprint
This book highlights the concept of water footprint in different industrial sectors such as leather tanning, steel, agriculture, textile and wine. One of the very basic necessities of life which is soon going to be scarce is water, hence the environmental footprint assessments on any scale essentially includes water footprint which is being measured in various supply chains and across different…
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- 978-981-33-4377-1
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- IX, 185p.:ill
- Series Title
- Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
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- 553.7 Wat
Lake Victoria Monitored from Space
This book employs a suite of remotely sensed products and advanced technologies to provide the first comprehensive space-based sensing of Lake Victoria, the world’s second largest freshwater lake that supports a livelihood of more than 42 million people, modulates regional climate, but faces myriads of challenges. Proper understanding of the lake and changes in its physical dynamics (e.g., wa…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-60551-3
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- xvi, 320P.:Ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Awa l
Phnom Penh Water Story
This book analyses how a water utility from a developing country, Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority, that was totally dysfunctional, corruption-ridden and literally bankrupt in 1993, became one of the most successful water utilities of the developing world in only about 15 years. By 2010, some of the performance indicators of this public sector utility were even better than London, Paris or Los…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-33-4065-7
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- xxiii, 153p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Bis p
Water Resources of Chile
Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person. However, water availability varies enormously in space, as less than 1,000 m3/person are available for more than 50% of the population. The temporal and spatial distribution of water resources is driven by processes highly variables across a country with different climates…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-56901-3
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- xviii, 433p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 Wat
Investigation and Assessment Technology for Typical Groundwater-contaminated …
This book introduces readers to environmental background investigation, pollution source intensity evaluation and risk assessment approaches used at three main types of groundwater-contaminated sites: municipal domestic waste landfills, hazardous waste landfills and oil-contaminated sites. In addition, typical contaminated sites throughout China are examined to demonstrate how these approaches …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-15-2845-3
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- XI, 388p.:ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 553.7 Inv
Water Resources Management of the People’s Republic of China
This book explores water resources management issues in China and possible solutions. It analyzes a wide range of general and specific topics, providing case studies and a balanced review of the past and present situation as well as future developments. The book begins with a general introduction and an overview of hydrology, water resources, and development issues in China. It then presents a…
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- 978-3-030-61931-2
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- xix, 455p.:ill
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- -
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- 553.7 She w
Water Management and Water Governance
This book focusses on hydrological modeling, water management, and water governance. It covers the applications of remote sensing and GIS tools and techniques for land use and land cover classifications, estimation of precipitation, evaluation of morphological changes, and monitoring of soil moisture variability. Moreover, remote sensing and GIS techniques have been applied for crop mapping to …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-58051-3
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- XI, 550p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 553.7 Wat
Ethical Water Stewardship
This interdisciplinary book brings philosophers and non-philosophers to the table to address questions of water ethics, specifically in terms of how moral questions inform decision making around water security at local, national, and international scales. Water security, which pertains to the experience of assured access to clean water, is a broad concept that intersects human rights, politics…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-49540-4
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- xiii, 352p.:ill
- Series Title
- Water Security in a New World
- Call Number
- 553.7 Eth
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