Water conservation and wastewater treatment in BRICS nations : technologies, challenges, strategies and policies /
Water Conservation and Wastewater Treatment in BRICS Nations: Technologies, Challenges, Strategies, and Policies addresses issues of water resources--including combined sewer system overflows--assessing effects on water quality standards and protecting surface and sub-surface potable water from the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Elsevier,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Chapter 1
- Water-related problem with special reference to global climate change in Brazil
- 1.1
- Overview of Brazilian water resources
- 1.2
- Major threats for conservation of Brazilian Amazonian water resources and aquatic biodiversity
- 1.2.1
- Industrial and domestic effluents
- 1.2.2
- Changes in land-use and deforestation
- 1.2.3
- Petroleum hydrocarbon
- 1.2.4
- Pesticides and herbicides
- 1.2.5
- Global climate changes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chapter 2
- Water-related problems with special reference to global climate change in Russia
- 2.1
- Introduction
- 2.2
- Water resources and anthropogenic impacts in Russia
- 2.3
- Climate change in Russia: trends and projections
- 2.4
- Impacts on water-related economic sectors
- 2.5
- Climatic risk management in Russia
- 2.6
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3
- Water-related problem with special reference to global climate change in India
- 3.1
- Introduction
- 3.2
- Indian context on climate change and water
- 3.2.1
- Climate change and precipitation
- 3.2.2
- Climate change and Indian monsoon pattern
- 3.2.3
- Climate change and glaciers of Himalaya
- 3.2.4
- Climate change and groundwater resources
- 3.2.5
- Climate change and drought and flood
- 3.3
- Impact on agricultural economy
- 3.4
- Indian context on climate change and water policies
- 3.5
- Scientific simulation model for future prediction
- 3.5.1
- The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) modeling
- 3.5.2
- General Circulation Model or Global Climate Model (GCM)
- 3.5.3
- Regional Climate Modeling (RCM)
- 3.5.4
- ClimGen
- 3.5.5
- Precipitation Runoff Modelling Systems (PRMS)
- 3.6
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4
- Water-related problems with special reference to global climate change in China
- 4.1
- Global climate change and China's water resources status
- 4.1.1
- Global climate change and water vulnerability
- 4.1.2
- The status of China's water resources
- 4.1.3
- The research history of the impact of climate change on hydrology and water resources
- 4.2
- China's water problem in the context of climate change
- 4.2.1
- Climate change poses new challenges to China's solutions to the water problem
- 4.2.2
- The sensitivity of China's water systems to climate change
- 4.2.3
- Quantitative analysis of the impact of climate change on the measured runoff of typical rivers in China
- 4.3
- Quantitative evaluation of the vulnerability of China's water systems under climate change conditions
- 4.3.1
- The concept and understanding of water resources vulnerability
- 4.3.2
- Index system construction
- 4.3.3
- Evaluation method
- 4.3.4
- Evaluation conclusion
- 4.4
- Future climate change trends in China and adaptive countermeasures