How can the Earth's finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis? The need to find answers to this question has exercised the minds of many scientists, practitioners and policymakers who rec…
How can the Earth's finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis? The need to find answers to this question has exercised the minds of many scientists, practitioners and policymakers who rec…
This is a monograph with high perspicacity on the water resources management oriented to sustainable development in the past 20 years in China, which is informative, comprehensive but concise, systematic and in-depth. Professor Shaofeng Jia, Director, Water Resources Research De…
Chapter 1. Introduction to IACRR and Coastal Reservoirs (CR) -- Chapter 2. Water storage and design considerations of coastal reservoirs -- Chapter 3. Water quality considerations: From catchment to coastal reservoir -- Chapter 4. Geotechnical considerations for coastal reservoi…
Coastal reservoirs are viewed in many regions of the world as an emerging concept of storing fresh water when the river basin is in flood. Similar reservoirs (or impoundments) can be used to generate tidal renewable energy and/or provide the catalysis for urban regeneration. Con…
The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project: selected documents
"The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project has been one of the most debated development projects of the past several decades at the international level and within India itself. Such is the complexity of the project that it has acquired symbolic status in development debates. This volume br…
"The Sardar Sarovar Dam Project has been one of the most debated development projects of the past several decades at the international level and within India itself. Such is the complexity of the project that it has acquired symbolic status in development debates. This volume br…
Up to the turn of the century the world's population had grown with water abundant in most developing countries. Then everything changed. Ocean oscillations (which effect the weather patterns) have altered, leading to droughts in areas that were expecting rain, and flooding for …
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