Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments

Arid Lowlands and Water Bodies Rehabilitation

790 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Environmental Science and Engineering
• Themen: Geowissenschaften, Geographie, Umwelt, Planung Geowissenschaften Hydrologie und die Hydrosphäre
• ISBN: 9783642147784
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2011
• Größe: 23.5 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: Springer Berlin
• Herausgegeben von: Viorel Badescu, Richard Cathcart