Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments

Arid Lowlands and Water Bodies Rehabilitation
Herausgegeben:Badescu, Viorel; Cathcart, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The subjects refer to histories of ancient and modern use of seacoasts; possible macro-projects capable of massive changes in the coastlines of the Dead Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf caused by canal and massively scaled hydropower dam installations; relevant macro-projects for the Black Sea and Baltic Sea; possibilities of refreshment of the Aral Sea and Iran's Lake Uremia with seawater or river freshwater importation macro-projects; potential rehabilitation of some vital arid zone regions now dominated by moving or movable surface granular materials using unique and unusual macro-projects; seawater flooding of land regions situated below present-day global sea-level; harnessing energy and obtaining freshwater from the world's salt-laden ocean by modern industrial means; various macro-projects designed specifically for the protection (reduction of vulnerability) of particular Earth geographical regions.

Produktdetails

• Environmental Science and Engineering
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-14778-4
• 2011
• Seitenzahl: 790
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 39mm x 166mm x 242mm
• Gewicht: 1490g
• ISBN-13: 9783642147784
• ISBN-10: 364214778X
• Artikelnr.: 30701723

Inhaltsangabe

Living with Sea Level Change and Dynamic Landscapes.- The Red Sea - Dead Sea Canal.- The Sea Highway Macro-project.- Sediment Transport by Wind and Water.- Macro-engineering Lake Eyre with Imported Seawater.- The Bering Strait Seawater Deflector