Environment and Ecology

Water as a resource is irreplaceable. Yet heavy rainfall can become an absolute disaster - even in modern cities - if rainwater is not drained out ...

Streams are dynamic components of living landscapes. Stream restoration, riparian restoration, and open land conservation are very connected. In co...

In California, the roughly 500-mile long Central Valley Project (CVP), one of the nation''''s largest water projects, provides water for multiple u...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than $680 billion is needed to repair and replace water and wastewater infrastructure...

The Corps is responsible for dredging sediment from waterways to maintain shipping routes important for commerce. One dredge type, a hopper dredge,...

Degradation of soil and water resources due to food and fibre production has been a concern for centuries in all societies on this planet. While so...

Forming the 9th volume from this successful international conference series, this book marks a growing global interest in the planning, design and ...

The average western lifestyle is kept afloat by about 2,000 gallons of H2O a day. The numbers are shocking. Your Water Footprint reveals the true c...

On 25 March 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) jointly proposed a rule defining the scope...

Water institutions establish the incentives, information, and compulsions that guide behaviour and influence economic outcomes. Water pricing polic...

Water supply privatization was emblematic of the neoliberal turn in development policy in the 1990s. Proponents argued that the private sector coul...

Red Water, Black Gold: The Canadian River in Texas 19201999 tells the story of the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle. It is a tale of grand des...

Water is our most vital resource. The growing demands made by an increasing number of people adopting urban lifestyles and Western diets, coupled w...

Water is the most vital element among the natural resources, and is crucial for the survival of all living organisms. Water drove the development o...

Adequate supplies of water are essential to people, the economy and the environment. Yet the Nation faces an increasing set of water resource chall...

Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucso...

Plugged by no fewer than twenty-five dams, the Colorado is the world's most regulated river, providing most of the water supply of Las Vegas, Tucso...

Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930...

When our ancestors came down from the trees, they brought the trees with them and remade the world. A stunning book on the i...

In the last few decades, we have witnessed significant advancements in our understanding of the problems in the water sector in many countries and ...

In 2005, researchers from four Australian universities and CSIRO joined forces with environmental managers from three state agencies and six region...

The Sahelian zone stretches across Africa from Senegal and Mauritania in the west to Sudan in the east, passing through Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger a...

This book provides new research on water resources. Chapter One discusses water resource management and intelligent monitoring systems for reservoi...

This book examines current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, ...

Water is an essential natural resource for life. Nowadays, water contamination is a common issue due to a variety of sources but mainly of anthropo...

The responsibility for development, management, and allocation of the nation''''s water resources is spread among federal, state, local, tribal and...

The world's population is increasing; but its supply of water is not. Empires have grown and declined due to discovery and exhaustion of their wate...

With increases in the number of people travelling, the speed and methods of travel, the types and volume of trade, the ability to move living plant...

The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most v...

The World Bank predicts that two-thirds of the world''''s population will not have enough fresh drinking water by the year 2025. Instead of protect...

The events of 11 September 2001 focused heightened attention on the security status of the nation''''s drinking water supplies and the vulnerabilit...

For the thirty-four million people living in Sudan, environmental pollution is a major concern throughout the country; therefore industry, communit...

Key issues related to freshwater availability and use, such as concerns about population growth straining water supplies, lack of information on wa...

'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler...

The management and conservation of natural populations relies heavily on concepts and results generated from models of population dynamics. Yet thi...

A radical new approach to tackling the growing threat of water scarcity Water is essential to life, yet humankinds relationship with water is compl...

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peterss thirtyfive years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for s...

Essential reading ... signposts to sustain an activist''s heart ... Rob Hopkins, co-founder of Transition Network Maddy''s voice of courage ...

This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership. Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management. Large estates cove...

Irrigation, Timber, and Hydropower is the story of the Flathead Irrigation Project and the Flathead Lake Dam, two early twentieth-century enterpris...