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Organizations find that a performance gap exists between sustainability vision and benefits realization. Effecting transformational change requires incorporating sustainability into organization's culture including policies, processes, and people. Although they are often overlooked, project management professionals and HR professionals are valuable

The growth of urban areas throughout the world is raising huge challenges, not least for urban sanitation and drainage systems. Sewer systems, whether rehabilitated, expanded or newly constructed, must be cost effective and capable of dealing with increased loads. Sewer sediments are recognized as being major contributors to the pollution effects of urban stormwaters. This First International Workshop on Sewer Sediments attracted the world's leading experts in this field from disciplines as diff...

Headwaters are fragile environments threatened by anthropogenic actions. The regeneration of headwaters calls for a practical approach through integrated environmental management. This book discusses various issues concerning headwater regions of the world under wide-ranging themes: climate change impacts, vegetal cover, sub-surface hydrology, catchment and streamflow hydrology, pollution, water quality and limnology, remote sensing and GIS, environmental impact assessment and mitigation, socio-...

This title offers more than 100 papers originating in 20 countries, covering research on a widening range of methods for recharge enhancement and groundwater quality protection and improvement. These include: bank filtration; aquifer storage and recovery; and soil aquifer treatment, as well as rainwater harvesting and pond infiltration. The emphasis is on understanding subsurface process to improve siting, design and operation and to facilitate use of stormwater and reclaimed water, particularly...

Florida's parched swamps and sprawling subdivisions set the stage for a look at water crisis throughout the American East, from water-diversion threats in the Great Lakes to tapped-out freshwater aquifers along the Atlantic seaboard. Part investigative journalism, part environmental history, "Mirage" shows how the eastern half of the nation - historically so wet that early settlers predicted it would never even need irrigation - has squandered so much of its abundant fresh water that it now face...

Dieses Buch führt in die Problematik der Grundwassererschliessung ein. Der Autor beschreibt die Probleme und Methoden der Erschliessung und geht auf die Zusammenhänge der Neubildung und Gewinnung von Grundwasser ein. Dem Grundwasserschutz ist ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet. Im Ausblick skizziert das Buch die Auswirkungen der Grundwassergewinnung und Ansätze zu einer nachhaltigen Wasserwirtschaft.

Die globale Susswasserkrise wird sich zukunftig weiter verscharfen. Neueste Analysen des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveranderungen (WBGU) zeigen nicht nur die heutigen Brennpunkte, sondern auch die zukunftig fur Wasserkrisen besonders anfalligen Weltregionen auf. Zusatzlich werden drei eng mit der globalen Susswasserkrise in Verbindung stehende "Krankheitsbilder der Erde" untersucht. Aus dieser Zusammenschau leiten die Wissenschaftler in ihrem neuesten Jahresberi...

The co-disposal of domestic waste with industrial waste can represent a serious hazard to prime sources of drinking water throughout the world. Containing the latest research on the risks to groundwater over time, this book provides a scientific case for more sustainable landfill construction - over overwhelming implications for changes in waste management legislation as well as engineering practice.

Ecological diversity is the intricate network of different species present in different ecosystems and the dynamic interaction between them. This timely volume examines the impact of the loss of biodiversity and ecotheology. It brings together the latest information on the rapid advances and developments in the field of biological diversity, habitats and climate. Examines the impact of the loss of biodiversity, and presents sophisticated featuring organismal and ecosystem ecology topics from an...

Future Sustainable Ecosystems: Complexity, Risk, Uncertainty provides an interdisciplinary, integrative overview of environmental problem-solving using statistics. It shows how statistics can be used to solve diverse environmental and socio-economic problems involving food, water, energy scarcity, and climate change risks. It synthesizes interdisciplinary theory, concepts, definitions, models and findings involved in complex global sustainability problem-solving, making it an essential guide and...