Towards Circular Cities: Nature based solutions for creating a resourceful circular city
This book comprises six chapters prepared by the COST Action Circular City. The Action aims to establish a network of researchers and stakeholders testing...
Strengthening Systems and Realising Human Rights: Strategies to Progress Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This book explores two frameworks for progressing structural change that supports safe, universal and equitable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): systems strengthening and the human rights to...
Ecotechnologies for Wastewater Treatment - Impacting the Environment with Innovation in Wastewater Treatment
Acknowledging that resource efficiency as well as ecosystem protection are crucial goals to tackle has led to a deep rethinking in the way wastewater has been dealt with up to the 20th century....
Hydrological Extremes in a Changing Environment: Modelling and Attribution Analysis
This book focuses on climate change and hydrological extremes, i.e. droughts and floods, which are globally important natural hazards with associated costly impacts on society and the environment...
From Knowledge and Capacity Development to an Implementation Science: Policy Concepts and Operational Approaches
Over the next three decades — the typical planning period for large infrastructure — the world will have changed into a place that is predominantly water-scarce, yet also subject to more extreme...
Water Management Addressing Societal and Climate Change Challenges
Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the earth's ecosystem and thus people's livelihoods and well-being. Globally, 83% of all disasters have been caused by extreme...
Impact of Climate Change on Hydrology and Water Resources
The impact of climate change on water resources is a research area that is gaining prominence, and concerns the prediction of rainfall, temperature, streamflow/discharge, and other meteorological...
Evolutionary Algorithms in Water Resources
Evolutionary algorithms and allied fields are getting more visibility as well as familiarity due to their numerous flexibilities such as handling high-dimensional non-linear problems and more....
SARS-CoV-2 in Water
This book brings together cutting-edge studies and reviews on the water-related health aspects of SARS-CoV-2, contributed by our research community. The contributions are related to the potential...
Water Infrastructure Planning, Management and Design Under Climate Uncertainty
This book is the product of a worldwide collaboration among UN water resources programs, prominent national water resources operating agencies and selected academic specialists. It deals directly...