Format:
Online-Ressource (XXXIX, 790 p, digital)
ISBN:
9783642147791
Series Statement:
Environmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Engineering
Content:
Richard B. Cathcart
Content:
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 Irans 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 worlds salt-laden ocean by modern industrial means; various macro-projects designed specifically for the protection (reduction of vulnerability) of particular Earth geographical regions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Macro-engineering Seawaterin Unique Environments; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Living with Sea Level Change and Dynamic Landscapes: An Archaeological Perspective; 2 History of Ischia Harbour (Southern Italy); 3 ''And an Island Never Cries'': Cultural and Societal Perspectives on the Mega Development of Islands in the United Arab Emirates; 4 The Dramatic Drop of the Dead Sea: Background, Rates, Impacts and Solutions; 5 The Red Sea--Dead Sea Canal: Its Origin and the Challenges it Faces; 6 Red Sea Heliohydropower: Bab-al-Mandab Sill Macro-Project
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7 The Hormuz Strait Dam Macroproject8 Construction Techniques for Deep-water Immersed Tunnel Using Real-time Sea Strait Current Forecast; 9 Ecological Energy Conversion of Oceanic and Afferent River Water Currents; 10 Wave Energy Assessments and Modeling of Wave--Current Interactions in the Black Sea; 11 The Sea Highway Macro-Project: A Multiple-Advantage Infrastructural Installation for Necessary Twenty-First Century Stabilization of Romanian Coastline Erosion; 12 The Black Sea: A Georeactor to Immobilize Metal Wastes; 13 Advantageous Techno-Naturalization of the Seawater in the Black Sea
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14 Proto-Type of Replicable Industrial Black Sea H2S Gas Extraction Plant15 Oxygenation of Large Volumes of Natural Waters by Geo-Engineering: with Particular Reference to a Pilot Experiment in Byfjorden; 16 Aral Sea Partial Refill with Imported Caspian Sea Water; 17 Aral Sea Rehabilitation with Irtysh Imports; 18 Urumia Lake: Hydro-Ecological Stabilization and Permanence; 19 Sediment Transport by Wind and Water: The Pioneering Work of Ralph Bagnold; 20 Dune: Arenaceous Anti-Desertification Architecture; 21 Dune Sand Fixation: Mauritania Seawater Pipeline Macroproject
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22 Treeing the CATS: Artificial Gulf Formation by the Chotts Algeria--Tunisia Scheme23 Mapping of the Qattara Depression, Egypt, using SRTM Elevation Data for Possible Hydropower and Climate Change Macro-Projects; 24 Assessing the Climate Response to Major Surface Inundation: Lake Eyre, Australia; 25 Macro-Engineering Lake Eyre with Imported Seawater; 26 Can Geoengineering Sustain Critical Ocean Currents?; 27 Calling upon Neptune: Ocean Energies as ''Renewables''; 28 Coastal Ecosystem Management Using a Wave Energy-driven Seawater Pump: Some Mega-engineering and Environmental Aspects
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29 Wave Powered Desalination30 A Novel Macro-Engineering Approach to Seawater Desalination; 31 The Ike Dike: A Coastal Barrier Protecting the Houston/Galveston Region from Hurricane Storm Surge; 32 Kalpasar: Potential Coastal Impacts for India of a Mega-Engineering Project ''Fulfilling All Wishes''; 33 The Bering Strait Seawater Deflector (BSSD): Arctic Tundra Preservation Using an Immersed, Scalable and Removable Fiberglass Curtain; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642147784
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Macro-engineering seawater in unique environments Berlin : Springer, 2011 ISBN 9783642147784
Language:
English
Keywords:
Küsteningenieurwesen
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Küstenmeer
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Meerestechnik
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Umwelttechnik
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Küsteningenieurwesen
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Küstenmeer
;
Meerestechnik
;
Umwelttechnik
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-14779-1
URL:
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Author information:
Badescu, Viorel 1953-
