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“wesley e highfield”

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  • Rising Waters

    The Causes and Consequences of Flooding in the United States

    by Samuel D. Brody, Wesley E. Highfield, Jung Eun Kang ...
    In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, this interdisciplinary book brings together five years of empirical research funded by the National Science Foundation. It explores the causes of flooding in the United States and the ways in which local communities can reduce the associated human casualties and property damage. Focussing on Texas and Florida, the authors ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • How to Read Water

    Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea

    by Tristan Gooley ...
    Series series Natural Navigation
    **A New York Times BestsellerA Forbes Top 10 Conservation and Environment Book of 2016The ultimate guide to interpreting natural signs in water**From oceans to puddles, lakes to streams, rain to fog, our planet is covered in water of all kinds. And once you learn to read water’s hidden clues the way writer and navigator Tristan Gooley can, the world becomes a trove of secret signs. In How to Read ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • H2O

    A Biography of Water

    by Philip Ball ...
    The brilliantly told and gripping story of the most familiar - yet, amazingly, still poorly understood - substance in the universe: Water.The extent to which water remains a scientific mystery is extraordinary, despite its prevalence and central importance on Earth. Whether one considers its role in biology, its place in the physical world (where it refuses to obey the usual rules of liquids) or ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 26th The observer of Genesis. The science behind the Creation story

    by Alberto Canen ...
    More than 300,000 books sold! Genesis, the seven days of Creation ... Where does the text that makes up the first part of the Bible come from? Is its text a mere introductory poem ... or is it a narrative? What's behind its words? Alberto Canen has found an alternative way to answer these and other questions in the Genesis. He has found a route no one had been to before, and invites the reader to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Unquenchable

    America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It

    by Robert Jerome Glennon, Dr. ...
    In the middle of the Mojave Desert, Las Vegas casinos use billions of gallons of water for fountains, pirate lagoons, wave machines, and indoor canals. Meanwhile, the town of Orme, Tennessee, must truck in water from Alabama because it has literally run out.Robert Glennon captures the irony—and tragedy—of America’s water crisis in a book that is both frightening and wickedly comical. From ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice

    Better Water Management for Development

    Edited by Roberto Lenton, Mike Muller ...
    Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century - feeding the worlds growing population and reducing poverty, meeting water and sanitation needs, protecting vital ecosystems, all while adapting to climate change. The approach known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best way forward, but is poorly ... Read more

    Was $82.99 USD Now $70.99 USD

  • Applied Limnology

    Comprehensive View from Watershed to Lake

    by Muhammad Aqeel Ashraf, Mohammadreza Gharibreza ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    A multidisciplinary study of Bera Lake in Malaysia is presented here, focusing on natural resources throughout the lake’s catchment area and assessing environmental impact. This applied limnology study examines issues relating to land development including soil erosion and nutrient loss in the catchment area, severe pollution of water, sediment resources in open waters and wetlands, and reduction ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Tsunami Hazard

    A Practical Guide for Tsunami Hazard Reduction

    Edited by E.N. Bernard ...
    The Fourteenth International Tsunami Symposium held from 31 July to 3 August 1989 in Novosibirsk, U.S.S.R., was sponsored by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics. Sixty-five scientists from 13 countries met to exchange information on recent advances in tsunami research. The Symposium was a great success due to the enthusiasm of the participants, the quality of research presented, and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sedimentation in the Rupnarayan River

    Volume 1: Hydrodynamic Processes Under a Tidal System

    by Swapan Kumar Maity, Ramkrishna Maiti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explains the causes, mechanisms and dimension of sedimentation in theRupnarayan River, which offers a representative example of a tidal river combining fluvial and marine processes. The book is unique in addressing all the hydrodynamic characteristics of the river, especially the tidal impact, sediment load and textural characteristics of the sediments.;The data presented here was ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Hydrogeology

    Edited by D. J. Poehls, Gregory J. Smith ...
    The scientific disciplines of hydrology and hydrogeology are expanding as the Earth's water is being recognized by governments and individuals as a shrinking resource—no entity can afford to take water for granted. At the present time, there is no single reference source for definitions. The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Hydrogeology is a practical, comprehensive reference guide with complete ... Read more

    $77.39 USD

  • Spatial Techniques for Soil Erosion Estimation

    Remote Sensing and GIS Approach

    by Rupesh Jayaram Patil ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a novel computation of the topographic LS factor of the USLE model to estimate spatial soil erosion. In developing countries, soil erosion is one of the main concerns as it adversely affects agriculture and reduces food production. Therefore, the author presents a particularly relevant approach, as he demonstrates how the C++ programming allows us to identify important erosion ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Experimental and Computational Solutions of Hydraulic Problems

    32nd International School of Hydraulics

    Edited by Paweł Rowiński ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    What 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 in fundamental hydraulics with the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD