Aquatic habitats supply a wide range of vital ecosystem benefits to cities and their inhabitants. The unsustainable use of aquatic habitats, including inadequate urban water management itself, however, tends to alter and reduce their biodiversity and therewith diminish their ability to provide clean water, protect us from waterborne diseases and pollutants, keep urban areas safe from flooding, and support recreational ecosystem services and even the aesthetic enjoyment of our world. Aquatic Habitats in Sustainable Urban Water Management – the result of collaboration between UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme and its Man and the Biosphere Programme – aims at improving our understanding of aquatic habitats, related ecosystem goods and services, and conservation and sustainable use – with a special focus on their integration into urban water management. The first part of this volume reviews basic concepts and challenges in urban aquatic habitats, as well as strategies for their management integration. The second part examines technical measures related to habitats management and rehabilitation, along with their incorporation into urban planning and their role in human health. The final part looks at current urban aquatic habitat issues and practical approaches to solving them through the lens of case studies from around the globe.
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Water Supply & Treatment
Water Management and Sustainability
Drinking Water
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Postgraduate

Drawing on UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme project on this topic, Data Requirements for Integrated Urban Water Managements explores how to improve integrated urban water management, It provides guidance on the collection, validation, storage, assessment and utilization of the relevant data. The first part of this volume describes general principles for developing a monitoring programme in support of sustainable urban water management. The second part examines in detail the monitoring of individual water cycle components. Two case studies illustrating attempts to deliver an integrated monitoring system demonstrate the fundamental principles of sustainable urban water management.
• Urban Water Series
Water Quality & Pollution
Water Supply & Treatment
Water Management and Sustainability
Reference
Postgraduate

Emerging geomaterials derived from scrap tires have been receiving increasing attention and gaining acceptance as suitable geomaterials worldwide, since they provide cost-effective solutions to many practical problems. This volume provides a geotechnical approach for material recycling of tire derived geomaterials, contributing to a sustainable global environment.
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Soil Mechanics
Solid Waste & Recycling
Sustainable Engineering
Proceedings

This book presents a comprehensive account of the modern theory of glasses, from basic principles to Maxwell relations. After introducing general theoretical concepts and historical developments, it thoroughly describes glassy phenomenology and the established theory. The core of the book surveys the crucial technique of two-temperature thermodynamics, explains the success of this method in resolving previously paradoxical problems in glasses, and presents exactly solvable models. The authors also tackle the potential energy landscape approach and discuss more detailed theories of glassy states, including mode coupling, avoided critical point, replica, and random first order transition theories.
• Condensed Matter Physics
Statistical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics
Ceramics & Glasses
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Professional

The UN Millennium Summit in 2000 pledged to achieve a set of Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. They include halving by 2015 the number of undernourished people in the world, which currently stand at 850 million people. This book explores ways and means of achieving the Millennium Development Goal in respect of Food Security. With contributions from world experts.
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Agricultural Engineering
Water Quality & Pollution
Water Management and Sustainability
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Postgraduate

A study in the development of flow adaptive numerical schemes in computational hydraulics directed to enhancing modelling capabilities. Examples covered include additional flow resistance due to flexible vegetation; one-dimensional supercritical f...
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Hydraulic Engineering
Water Engineering
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Postgraduate

Raising the standard for radiation biology textbooks, this graduate-level text offers an up-to-date analysis of molecular responses in the body induced by ionizing radiation. It presents an in-depth perspective on clinical applications for the treatment of cancer and radiation injuries. Based on a popular course at McGill University, the book clarifies the underlying mechanisms of radiation effects on signal transduction pathways using terms that non-experts in molecular biology can understand. With an emphasis on medical physics, it relates principles of radiobiophysics and key advances with potential applications of ionizing radiation for diagnosis and treatment.
• Series in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
Systems Biology
Radiology
Molecular Biology
Textbook
Undergraduate

In this book a description is presented of a framework and techniques for modelling structure (in particular dams and dikes) failure events as well as a proposal to several novel approaches for risk analysis and assessment by numerical, statistical and constrained based methods in particular to the problems of breach modelling and flood water mitigation.
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Rock Mechanics
Hydraulic Engineering
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This book presents historical analyses carried out in the Piemonte-territory in north-western Italy, which focused on the consequences of hydrogeological risks, revealing that damage is continually increasing. The text suggests that this can partly be explained by the consistent expansion of urbanized areas at the expense of areas that are essential to the natural modelling processes of the region; the damage resulting from hydrogeological instability often being associated with incompatible territorial decisions. It also gives a detailed account of a series of experiences related to activities that ARPA Piemonte has carried out, which focus on the cognitive and forecasting aspects related to risk assessment and alerting procedures.
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Atmospheric Sciences
Geology - Earth Sciences
Natural Hazards & Risk
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This book brings together work from researchers around the world and, in particular from the Asia-Pacific region. Most sport technologies are covered, including equipment and materials in various ball sports (golf, cricket, baseball, soccer, tennis, etc.), water sports, athletics, winter sports, mountaineering, motor sports and martial arts. The different technological areas extend to design; dynamics, vibrations and control; aerodynamics; instrumentation and measurements; modelling, simulation and optimisation; biomechanics and human performance; sports medicine; coaching and sports education.
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Product Design
Sports Technology and Engineering
Sport Studies
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