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Land, Water and Developmentby Malcolm Newson
Routledge 1997; US$ 64.95This fully revised and expanded second edition presents a global study of river basin systems and their contemporary management within both physical and social frameworks. more...
Institutional Innovation in Water Managementby W.R.D. Sewell; A. Pitkethly; J.T. Coppock
Spon Press 1986; US$ 160.00Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that institutional innovation is as important if not more so than improved technology in providing water for a growing world population. more...
River Mechanicsby Pierre Y. Julien
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 72.00In a comprehensive analysis of rivers, this text scrutinizes select methods underlining both theory and engineering applications, emphasizing the mechanics of flood wave propagation and sediment transport. It covers fundamental principles, engineering analysis, and engineering design, with problems, examples, and case studies. For advanced students, researchers, and practitioners. more...
Hazardous Metropolisby Jared Orsi
University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history?the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 flood control basins, and nearly 500 miles of paved river channels, Southern Californians have discovered that technologically engineered solutions to flooding are just as disaster-prone as natural waterways. Jared Orsi's lively history unravels the strange and often hazardous ways that engineering, politics, and nature have come together in Los Angeles to determine the flow of water. He advances a new paradigm?the urban ecosystem?for understanding the... more...
The Watershed Project Management Guideby Thomas E. Davenport
CRC Press 2002; US$ 159.95Everyone lives in a watershed, points out Davenport, a certified erosion and sediment control specialist, and the management of water resources in them is increasingly becoming a partnership between government agencies and stakeholders such as the people who are impacted. To non-specialists involved in the process, he offers scientific and social i more...
The Water Encyclopediaby Pedro Jr. Fierro
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 249.95A definitive compilation of hydrologic and geologic data, The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources, Third Edition identifies the most current information on a wide range of water related topics. The book contains a brief introduction of data presented and commentary on important data-related issues in each chapter and provides more than 1100 tables and 500 figures of reliable and complete hydrologic data. New chapters present Data management concepts; International data collection leads; Metadata and data sets on the Internet; and State-by-state environmental media standards. more...
Inter-Basin Water Transferby Fereidoun Ghassemi; Ian White
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 195.00Examination of inter-basin water transfer projects for professionals and researchers in hydrology, and environmental science, policy and regulation. more...
Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Managementby Jon D. Erickson
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 120.00Delves into the complex scientific underpinning of sustainable watershed analysis and management more...
Irrigation and River Basin Managementby M. Svendsen
CABI 2005; US$ 100.00Reviews river basin management in six developed and developing countries. This book describes and applies a functional theory of river basin management, based on the idea that there is a minimum set of functions required to manage basins effectively and a set of basic conditions that enable effective management institutions to emerge. more...