Hydrology and Water Resources Management in a Changing World
Hydrology and water resources management in a changing world reflects important challenges for both researchers and practitioners in the public and private sectors. This book features...
Water and Environmental Challenges in a Changing World
Today, multi-disciplinarity is the key to tackle challenges for the sustainable management of water resources, especially considering the increasing complexity in the water world. It is thus...
Water in Himalayan Towns: Lessons for Adaptive Water Governance
Increasing urbanization and changing climate are two critical stressors that are adversely affecting the biophysical environment of urban areas in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. The book discusses...
Improving Water Governance in Kathmandu: Insights from Systems Thinking and Behavioral Science
The global water and sanitation community is currently wrestling with the policy implications of two important realizations. The first is that it is quite possible for cities to actually run out...
Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice
Hydrology: Advances in Theory and Practice, brings together contributions to both the theory and practice of hydrology, including chapters on (amongst other topics) flood estimation methods and...
Sustainable Eco-technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment
One of the major challenges in the world is to provide clean water and sanitation for all. With 3% fresh water reserves in the earth, there are more than 1 billion people who still lack access to...
Frontier Technology for Water Treatment and Pollutant Removal
Frontier technology in water treatment and pollutant removal is needed not only for maximizing water reuse but also for the rapid detection of contaminants in the recycled water. The UN announced...
Drought Policies: Case Studies on Mega-droughts for the High Level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters (HELP)
This book focuses on mega-droughts of the past 20 years. Twelve cases from both developed and developing countries are elaborated in the book. Its intention is to draw lessons from the cases of...
Environmentally Friendly (Bio)Technologies for the Removal of Emerging Organic and Inorganic Pollutants from Water
This book highlights the impacts of emerging pollutants (both organic and inorganic) in water bodies and the role and performances of different water and wastewater treatment approaches that are...
Algal Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery
Over 80% of globally produced wastewater receives little or no treatment before it is disposed into the environment. Therefore, it is urgent to develop new wastewater treatment technologies that...