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Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Hydraulic engineering
This new edition is a major revision of the popular introductory
reference on hydrology and watershed management principles,
methods, and applications. The book's content and scope have been
improved and condensed, with updated chapters on the management of
forest, woodland, rangeland, agricultural urban, and mixed land use
watersheds. Case studies and examples throughout the book show
practical ways to use web sites and the Internet to acquire data,
update methods and models, and apply the latest technologies to
issues of land and water use and climate variability and change.
This fully revised edition provides a modern overview of the
intersection of hydrology, water quality, and water management at
the rural-urban interface. The book explores the ecosystem services
available in wetlands, natural channels and ponds/lakes. As in the
first edition, Part I examines the hydrologic cycle by providing
strategies for quantifying each component: rainfall (with NOAH 14),
infiltration, evapotranspiration and runoff. Part II examines field
and farm scale water quality with an introduction to erosion
prediction and water quality. Part III provides a concise
examination of water management on the field and farm scale,
emphasizing channel design, field control structures, measurement
structures, groundwater processes and irrigation principles. Part
IV then concludes the text with a treatment of basin-scale
processes. A comprehensive suite of software tools is available for
download, consisting of Excel spreadsheets, with some public domain
models such as HY-8 culvert design, and software with public domain
readers such as Mathematica, Maple and TK solver.
Blue Dunes chronicles the design of artificial barrier islands
developed to protect the Mid-Atlantic region of North America in
the face of climate change. It narrates the complex, and sometimes
contradictory, research agenda of an unlikely team of analysts,
architects, ecologists, engineers, physicists, and planners
addressing extreme weather and sea level rise within the practical
limitations of science, politics, and economics.
Well Test Analysis for Multilayered Reservoirs with Formation
Crossflow introduces the fundamentals of well test analysis of a
multilayered reservoir with formation crossflow. The effects of
reservoir parameters on wellbore pressure and flow rate are
examined, as is a proper method that has been established to
analyze well test data that leads to better determinations on the
reservoir parameters for each layer of the reservoir. Focusing on
multilayer models for data analysis, this reference explains the
reasons for the existence of single-phase crossflow in multilayer
reservoirs, exploring methods to establish them and presenting
practical applications to utilize and implement for today's more
complex reservoirs. Aiding in better well testing operations and
models, this book is a one-stop solution for today's reservoir and
production engineer, helping them understand every layer of their
reservoir.
Generally, construction of dams is regarded as means of economic
progress in many countries. Major consequences of such projects are
the inundation of upstream areas and the resettlement of entire
communities in newly-built environments where they experience
dramatic transformation in their lifestyles. The present study
takes the Nubian resettlement experience after the creation of Lake
Nasser that submerged their old settlements, along the river Nile.
Following their resettlement, the design of the newly-built
environment disrupted the Nubian traditional lifestyles and
patterns of privacy mechanisms, territoriality and social
interaction. The inadequacy of the newly-built environment was
mainly attributed to the Nubians' transfer from spacious homes in
the old villages to compact contiguous houses in the new
settlements. The arrangement of these resettlement state built
houses, distributed on the basis of household size, has further
resulted in the fragmentation and the dispersion of traditional
kinship-based neighborhoods. Within an interdisciplinary approach,
the study is based on theoretical, historical and conceptual themes
and on empirical research. It sets out to examine the households'
responses towards, and adaptation mechanisms with, the newly-built
environment, looking critically at the achievements of imposed
top-down planning in meeting the socio-cultural and economic needs
of those resettled.
The modern idea of 'mastery' over nature always had its critics,
whether their motives were aesthetic, religious or
environmentalist. By investigating how the most fundamental element
- water - was 'conquered' by draining fens and marshes,
straightening the courses of rivers, building high dams and
exploiting hydro-electric power, The Conquest of Nature explores
how over the last 250 years, the German people have shaped their
natural environment and how the landscapes they created took a
powerful hold on the German imagination. From Frederick the Great
of Prussia to Johann Gottfried Tulla, 'the man who tamed the wild
Rhine' in the nineteenth century to Otto Intze, 'master dambuilder'
of the years around 1900, to the Nazis who set out to colonise
'living space' in the East, this groundbreaking study shows that
while mastery over nature delivers undoubted benefits, it has often
come at a tremendous cost to both the natural environment and human
life.
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