Engineering Geology and the Environment
Author: Paul G. Marinos
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1080
ISBN-13: 9789054108801
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Author: Paul G. Marinos
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 1080
ISBN-13: 9789054108801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norman Lee
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 326
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eike-Christian Heine
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2022-04-19
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0822987783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century. Moving beyond classical places known for yielding scientific knowledge, chapters in this volume explore how the construction and maintenance of canals, highways, dams, irrigation schemes, the oil industry, and logistic networks intersected with the creation of know-how and expertise. Referred to by the authors as “scientific bonanzas,” such intersections reveal opportunities for great wealth, but also distress and misfortune. This volume explores how innovative technologies provided research opportunities for scientists and engineers, as they relied on expertise to operate, which resulted in enormous profits for some. But, like the history of any gold rush, the history of infrastructure also reveals how technologies of modernity transformed nature, disrupting communities and destroying the local environment. Focusing not on the victory march of science and technology but on ambivalent change, contributors consider the role of infrastructures for ecology, geology, archaeology, soil science, engineering, ethnography, heritage, and polar exploration. Together, they also examine largely overlooked perspectives on modernity: the reliance of infrastructure on knowledge, and infrastructures as places and occasions that inspired a greater understanding of the natural world and the technologically made environment.
Author: International Institute for Environment and Development
Publisher: IIED
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1899825118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: B. Chaytor
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9401701350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKC.O.OKIDl1 I welcome the opportunity to prepare a Foreword to the book on Environmental Policy and Law in Africa, edited by Kevin R. Gray and Beatrice Chaytor. It is a pleasure to do that because the book is a contribution to the cause of capacity building for development and implementation of environmental law in Africa, a goal towards which I have had an undivided focus over the last two decades. There is still some belief in and outside Africa that for developing countries in general, and Africa in particular, development and implementation of environmental law is not a priority. This belief prevails strongly in many quarters of the industrialised countries. In fact, the view is held either out of blatant ignorance or by some renegade industrialists who fail to appreciate Michael Royston's 1979 thesis that Pollution Prevention Pays.2 That group, for obvious reasons, must have their correspondent counterparts in Africa to provide hope that industries rejected as derelict in the West or inoperable due to rigorous environmental regulation, can find homes to which they can escape and dump their polluting industries.
Author: Jean-Michel Tanguy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-12-27
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1118587707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure the main parameters that are indispensable to implement all these simulation tools. Volume 2 presents the different theories in an integrated approach: mathematical models as well as conceptual models, used by all disciplines to represent these processes. Volume 3 identifies the main numerical methods used in all these scientific fields to translate mathematical models into numerical tools. Volume 4 is composed of a series of case studies, dedicated to practical applications of these tools in engineering problems. To complete this presentation, volume 5 identifies and describes the modeling software in each discipline.
Author: Eric Gilli
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2015-04-22
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1482243164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKarst landscapes are home to 25 percent of the world's drinking water supplies, and in many countries water supply is highly dependent on karst aquifers. Their unique structures, containing many voids, are a particular problem for building corporations and land developers. This book, written by the well-known karstologist Eric Gilli, presents
Author: Mohamed Ali Mekouar
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Redouane Choukr-Allah
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-10-03
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 940074756X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book puts great emphasis on the importance of Integrated Water Resources Management IWRM as the way forward towards food, water, and energy security. It offers better ways and means of managing the limited water resources; using water more efficiently; adopting new policies in order to cope with climate change and drought; increase water supply through the use of non conventional water resources, especially waste water; inducing stakeholders participation and information exchange and raise public awareness to the value of water. It is an important book for all those involved in all aspects of water resources and contains valuable information for scientists, researchers, farmers, extension services and students.