The Yamuna River Basin Water Resources and Environment /

This book is designed to provide concepts, methodologies, and approaches for river basin studies with respect to water resources and environment. The book is not limited to the Yamuna River basin, but will help in the study of various other river basins for integrated water resources management. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Rai, Raveendra Kumar (Autor), Upadhyay, Alka (Autor), Ojha, C. Shekhar P. (Autor), Singh, Vijay P. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
Edición:1st ed. 2012.
Colección:Water Science and Technology Library, 66
Temas:
Geology.
Water.
Hydrology.
Climatology.
Atmospheric science.
Earth sciences.
Environment.
Climate Sciences.
Atmospheric Science.
Earth Sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Descripción
Sumario:This book is designed to provide concepts, methodologies, and approaches for river basin studies with respect to water resources and environment. The book is not limited to the Yamuna River basin, but will help in the study of various other river basins for integrated water resources management. The book covers the essential components of integrated water resources management, including analysis of climatic variables, climate change detection, analysis of natural resources, geology, geomorphology, socio-economics, water budgeting, flood estimation, river pollution, etc. Furthermore, the book addresses recent issues pertaining to water quality, water quality indices, environmental flows, water resources mangement through cropping pattern change, etc. along  with methodologies and application to the Yamuna River system. However, the main objective of this book is to address important issues of water resources management of river basins. Audience: The manuscript has been designed so that it can be used as a reference for river basin studies. The book will be useful to engineers, agricultural scientists, environmentalists, planners, managers, and administrators who are concerned with water resources.
Descripción Física:XXX, 478 p. online resource.
ISBN:9789400720015
ISSN:1872-4663 ;

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