The book presents the results from the Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology Conference (UMH VI) held in September 2011, in Freiberg, Germany. The following subjects are dealt with in depth: uranium mining, phosphate mining and uranium recovery. Cleaning up technologies for water and …
Groundwater management in the East of the European Union: transboundary strategies for sustainable use and …
by Nałęcz, Tomasz, NATO FORACS AUTEC, NATO NFA on sustainable use of groundwater resources-transboundary water management, Jérusalem)
fromNATO science for peace and security series
This volume is the result of work carried out under the NATO SPS Study Pilot Project "Sustainable Use and Protection of Groundwater Resources - Transboundary Water Management." It contains basic information on hydrogeological conditions, groundwater management and monitoring in …
Advanced information technology infrastructure is increasingly being employed in the Earth sciences to provide researchers with efficient access to massive central databases and to integrate diversely formatted information from a variety of sources. These geoinformatics initiati…
Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and near-earth surface processes. The utility of the isotopes are ever-increasing and our sole focus is to bring out the applications of these isotopes as tracers and chronometers …
Geomatics, the handling and processing of information and data about the Earth, is one geoscience discipline that has seen major changes in the last decade, as mapping and observation systems become ever more sensitive and sophisticated. This book is a unique and in-depth survey…
The overwhelming focus of this 2nd volume of "Physics of Lakes" is adequately expressed by its subtitle "Lakes as Oscillators." It deals with barotropic and baroclinic waves in homogeneous and stratified lakes on the rotating Earth and comprises 12 chapters, starting with rotati…
Setting the political stage -- Monitoring underground nuclear explosions -- Monitoring atmospheric nuclear explosions -- Monitoring nuclear explosions in the ocean -- On-site inspections -- Synergy with science -- Verifying the CTBT [Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty] : a st…