Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water Supply Systems in Central Iran -- Chapter 3: Social Aspects of Water in Central Iran -- Chapter 4- Cain and Abel in the Heaven of Water Cooperation -- Chapter 5- Cooperation in Lieu of Water -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book tries to answer the question how different communities in such an arid area as the Iranian central plateau could have shared th…
1. Interactive Perspectives on Water Governance in Asia -- 2. Citizen Initiatives in Water Governance in the Netherlands:Reflection and Implications to Asian Cases -- 3. Contextual Factors Affecting the Modes of Interaction in Governance: The Case of Dam Removal in Japan -- 4. Interactive Participation under a Fragmented Administration System: Watershed Governance in Zhejiang Province, China --…
Chapter1: Seismic Geophysics -- Chapter2: Historical Overview of Petroleum and Seismology -- Chapter3: Seismic interpretation in Petroleum Exploration -- Chapter4: Application to Petroleum Development -- Chapter5: Summary.This book demystifies that art and science of seismic interpretation for those without formal geophysical training. From geologists to managers and investors, The Art and Scie…
Soil as part of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System (SPAS) -- Basic physical properties of soils -- Physical properties of water -- Phenomena on the interface water - solid phase of soil -- Soil water content, methods of measurement -- Soil - water potential and its measurement -- The soil water retention curve -- Flow of water in unsaturated, rigid, capillary - porous media (soil) -- Flow of wate…
Chapter1: Why This Book? -- Chapter2: Food Security – the 21st Century Issue -- Chapter3: Operational Satellites for Earth Monitoring -- Chapter4: Vegetation Health Method -- Chapter5: Monitoring Drought from Space and Food Security -- Chapter6: Vegetation Health-based Modeling Crop Yield and Food Security Prediction -- Chapter7: Vegetation Health for Insuring Drought-Related Yield Losses and…
Chapter 1. Introduction to Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey -- Chapter 2. The Physical Geography of Turkey: An Outline -- Chapter 3. The Tectonic Control on the Geomorphological Landscapes of Turkey -- Chapter 4. The Geomorphological Regions of Turkey -- Chapter 5. Karstic Landscapes and Landforms in Turkey -- Chapter 6. Gypsum Karst Landscape in the Sivas Basin -- Chapter 7. The Antalya Tufa…
Evolution of Drainage practice in Egypt -- Management of the Integration between Irrigation and Drainage Water in the Nile Delta -- The Assessment of Subsurface Drainage System in Egypt -- Environmental Impact Assessment of Agriculture Drainage -- New Design Criteria for Subsurface Drainage System Considering Heat Flow within Soil -- Spatiotemporal Hydrochemical Evaluation and Quality Assessmen…
Overviews of Aswan High Dam (AHD) and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) -- Environmental Impacts of AHD On Egypt Between The Last and The Following 50 Years -- Importance of Aswan High Dam to Egypt -- Impacts of Constructing the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile River -- Stochastic Investigation of the GERD-AHD Interaction Through First Impoundment and Beyond -- Model-Based Optim…
About the publishing Institution -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures.-List of Tables.-List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Introduction of Editors -- Part I Food Security Versus Environmental and Socio-Economic Dynamics -- Part II Climate, Water, Soil and Agriculture: Managing the Linkages -- Part III Forest Management from a Climate Change and Sustainability Perspective -- Postf…
Category Ⅰ: Very small world (nanodeliveries) -- Chapter 1. Nanotechnology from Ancient Era to Today’s World (Ketaki Deshmukh) -- Chapter 2. Nano-deliverables (Indulekha Singaravelu, Arun Kumar Palaniappan) -- Chapter 3. Targeted phytochemicals conjugated gold nanoparticles in cancer treatment (Menka Khoobchandani, Alice Raphael Karikachery, Kavita Katti, Kattesh V. Katti) -- Category Ⅱ: …