Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Role of Levees in Flood Disaster Protection and the FEMA Accreditation Process
Dragoslav Stefanovic (Tetra Tech, Inc., Irvine, CA, US, and Svetlana Kostic, Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US)
Chapter 2. Flood-Control Levees on River Deltas: What We Have Learned from the New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Experience
Svetlana Kostic (Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US, and Dragoslav Stefanovic, Tetra Tech, Inc., Irvine, CA, US)
Chapter 3. Wastewater Treatment by Microbial Fuel Cells: The Latest Research, Development, Locks and Ways to Follow (For the Future)
Alae Elabed, Saad Ibnsouda and Soumya Elabed (Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, University of Toulouse, CNRS, INP, UPS, France, and others)
Chapter 4. Low-Pressure Reverse Osmosis for Boron Elimination in Seawater Desalination: Analysis of Concentration Polarization and Degree of Rejection of Boric Acid, Borates and Monovalent Ions
Sergey P. Agashichev (National Energy and Water Research Center (ADWEA), Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Chapter 5. The Ocean’s Surface Acidification with Increasing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and the Threats for Coral Reef Calcification
Shigeru Ohde, Aaron K. Ouchi and Monthon Ganmanee (Department of Chemistry, Biology and Marine Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, and others)
Chapter 6. Pollution Caused by Mineral Oil in Mangrove Swamps
José Antonio Batista da Silva (São Gonçalo Secretariat of the Environment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Chapter 7. Climate-Geologic Processes on the Landform Development in the Ejina Basin (NW China)
Bing-Qi Zhu (Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Chapter 8. The Geomorphological and Landscape Evolution of Namibia in Southwestern Africa, and the Related Environmental Changes They Present
Bing-Qi Zhu (Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Chapter 9. Logging: Global Practices, Environmental Risks and Economic Impacts
Ratidzo B. Mapfumo, Bellington Mudyawabikwa and Charon Chikuruwo (Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, and others)
Index