Hydrology Books

New and Published Books

1. India's Waters

   Environment, Economy, and Development

   By Mahesh Chandra Chaturvedi

   Regulation of India’s rivers and other water systems has been evolving for thousands of years in the face of varying socioeconomic and technological conditions. India's Waters: Environment, Economy, and Development is a study of the current state of development, and proposed future development...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
2. India’s Waters

   Advances in Development and Management

   By Mahesh Chandra Chaturvedi

   India’s Waters: Advances in Development and Management is a critical study of the development and management of India’s waters. Its central theme is that the current methods in use are an extension of the colonial-era system, which, despite vast growth, has remained essentially the same in terms of...

   Published December 19th 2011 by CRC Press
3. Understanding Hydrological Variability for Improved Water Management in the Semi-Arid Karkheh Basin, Iran

   UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

   By Ilyas Masih

   This study provides a hydrology based assessment of (surface) water resources and its continuum of variability and change at different spatio-temporal scales in the semi-arid Karkheh Basin, Iran, where water is scarce, competition among users is high and massive water resources development is under...

   Published September 25th 2011 by CRC Press
4. Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture

   By Suhas P. Wani, Johan Rockstrom, Kanwar Lal Sahrawat

   This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the realization of improved rainfed agriculture yield in semi-arid and dry land areas. The incentive of watershed programs is to increase the return on investment with over 20% for 65% of the projects that are currently underperforming. Besides...

   Published September 15th 2011 by CRC Press
5. Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations

   Edited by Elena Vázquez-Cendón

   This volume contains the lecture notes of the Short Course on Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2-4 July 2011). The course was organized in recognition of Prof. Eleuterio Toro’s contribution to education and training on...

   Published May 22nd 2011 by CRC Press
6. Urban Watersheds

   Geology, Contamination, and Sustainable Development

   By Martin M. Kaufman, Daniel T. Rogers, Kent S. Murray

   With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between humans and the environment. Environmental contamination is a chronic problem—and an expensive one. In urban areas, water...

   Published April 24th 2011 by CRC Press
7. Groundwater Hydrology

   Engineering, Planning, and Management

   By M. Karamouz, A. Ahmadi, M. Akhbari

   Increasing demand for water, higher standards of living, depletion of resources of acceptable quality, and excessive water pollution due to urban, agricultural, and industrial expansions have caused intense environmental, social, economic, and political predicaments. More frequent and severe floods...

   Published March 14th 2011 by CRC Press
8. Open Channel Flow

   Numerical Methods and Computer Applications

   By Roland Jeppson

   A comprehensive treatment of open channel flow, Open Channel Flow: Numerical Methods and Computer Applications starts with basic principles and gradually advances to complete problems involving systems of channels with branches, controls, and outflows/ inflows that require the simultaneous...

   Published November 8th 2010 by CRC Press
9. Water-Rock Interaction XIII

   Edited by Peter Birkle, Ignacio Salvador Torres Alvarado

   In the late 18th century, Neptunists and Plutonists had controversial opinions about the formation of the Earth and its lithological units. The former believed that rocks formed from the crystallization of minerals in the early Earth’s oceans, the latter believed that rocks were formed in fire....

   Published September 30th 2010 by CRC Press
10. Hydrology in Practice, Fourth Edition

    By Elizabeth M. Shaw, Keith J. Beven, Nick A. Chappell, Rob Lamb

    Hydrology in Practice is an excellent and very successful introductory text for engineering hydrology students who go on to be practitioners in consultancies, the Environment Agency, and elsewhere. This fourth edition of Hydrology in Practice, while retaining all that is excellent about its...

    Published July 22nd 2010 by CRC Press