This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security in the developing world, by integrating scientific knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international law. Empirical assessments at the national, catchment and regional levels are used to critically appraise this systemic approach, and the merits and potential limitations are presented. The practicalities of this approach with regard to water resources management, nature conservation, and sustainable business practices are discussed, and the role of society in underpinning the concept of ecosystem services is explored. Presenting new insights and perspectives on how to shape future strategies, this contributory volume is a valuable reference for researchers, academics, students and policy makers, in environmental studies, hydrology, water resource management, ecology, environmental law, policy and economics, and conservation biology.

This comprehensive volume describes how ecosystem services-based approaches can assist in addressing major global and regional water challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and water security in the developing world, by integrating scientific knowledge from different disciplines, such as hydrological modelling, environmental economics, psychology and international law. Empirical assessments at the national, catchment and regional levels are used to critically appraise this systemic approach, and the merits and potential limitations are presented. The practicalities of this approach with regard to water resources management, nature conservation, and sustainable business practices are discussed, and the role of society in underpinning the concept of ecosystem services is explored. Presenting new insights and perspectives on how to shape future strategies, this contributory volume is a valuable reference for researchers, academics, students and policy makers, in environmental studies, hydrology, water resource management, ecology, environmental law, policy and economics, and conservation biology.

A Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey for subsurface investigation yields a large amount of data; within this data only a small percentage represent the actual targets of interest. The current GPR data processing for underground utilities relies on skilled operators and involves many computationally expensive and time consuming processing stages before any information about the subsurface is concluded. These results are often based on broad assumptions and involve human intervention, which is a source of inconsistency and error, hence rendering the results to be unreliable. The data processing stages involve pre-processing of the data followed by detecting the areas that contain the targets and extracting the target signature after which a final interpretation of the target parameters is made. This book automates the data processing stages as well as suggests improvements in existing tools and techniques to make them more efficient and robust. New data processing tools have been developed which are superior to existing methods in terms of performance and require less computational cost and time to produce results.