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Hazardous Metropolis
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... more...
The Watershed Project Management Guide
CRC Press 2002; US$ 199.95Everyone 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 Encyclopedia
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 289.95A 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...
Irrigation and River Basin Management
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...
Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Draws upon a worldwide survey of river basin organizations and in-depth studies of eight river basins in a variety of locations around the globe. This book examines how institutional arrangements for managing water resources at the river-basin level have been designed and implemented, and what the impetus for these arrangements has been. more...
Estimating the Value of Water-Use Efficiency in the Intermountain West
RAND Corporation 2008; US$ 9.95Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of water-efficiency programs can be difficult, because not all the benefits are easily quantified. This report presents an economic framework based on two tools from the California Urban Water Conservation Council to estimate the avoided costs and environmental benefits of an agency's efficiency programs. The report... more...
Geographic Information Systems in Water Resources Engineering
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 135.95Presents a review of the concepts and applications of GIS in the various sub-fields of water resource engineering. This book focuses on the linkage of GIS data with water resource analysis and management models. It is suitable for engineers and planners in the creation of a reliable, environmentally sensitive, infrastructure. more...
Optimal Expansion of a water Resources system
Elsevier Science 1974; US$ 69.50Optimal Expansion of a water Resources system more...
River Basin Management VII
WIT Press 2013; US$ 374.00Containing papers presented seventh international conference on the topic, this book Reviews the advances have been made in the development and application of software tools for predicting the flow, water quality, sediment transport and ecological processes in river systems. Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, the biennial conference was... more...
Experimental and Computational Solutions of Hydraulic Problems
Springer 2013; US$ 139.00What is the progress in hydraulic research? What are the new methods used in modeling of transport of momentum, matter and heat in both open and conduit channels? What new experimental methods, instruments, measurement techniques, and data analysis routines are used in top class laboratory and field hydro-environment studies? How to link novel findings... more...









