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Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments Arid Lowlands and Water Bodies Rehabilitation
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Environmental Science and Engineering Environmental Science
Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments
Arid Lowlands and Water Bodies Rehabilitation
Viorel Badescu | Richard Cathcart
Science / Earth Sciences / Hydrology
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.
| Publication Date: | 04 February 2011 |
| Publisher: | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Imprint: | Springer |
| ISBN-13: | 9783642147784 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Page Count: | 790 |