Sustainable Water Engineering
eBook - ePub

Sustainable Water Engineering

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sustainable Water Engineering

About this book

Sustainable Water Engineering introduces the latest thinking from academic, stakeholder and practitioner perspectives who address challenges around flooding, water quality issues, water supply, environmental quality and the future for sustainable water engineering. In addition, the book addresses historical legacies, strategies at multiple scales, governance and policy.- Offers well-structured content that is strategic in its approach- Covers up-to-date issues and examples from both developed and developing nations- Include the latest research in the field that is ideal for undergraduates and post-graduate researchers- Presents real world applications, showing how engineers, environmental consultancies and international institutions can use the concepts and strategies

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Yes, you can access Sustainable Water Engineering by Susanne Charlesworth,Colin A. Booth,Kemi Adeyeye in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Chemical & Biochemical Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Image
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. CHAPTER 1 From taps to toilets and ponds to pipes–A paradigm shift in sustainable water engineering
  9. CHAPTER 2 Using the byzantine water supply of Constantinople to examine modern concepts of sustainability
  10. CHAPTER 3 Wholesome water, and natural water sources
  11. CHAPTER 4 Sustainable greywater engineering
  12. CHAPTER 5 Technical and non-technical strategies for water efficiency in buildings
  13. CHAPTER 6 Cities running out of water
  14. CHAPTER 7 Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) disease prevention and control in low resource countries
  15. CHAPTER 8 Modelling of a rainwater harvesting system: Case studies of university college hospital, residential apartment and office block in Ibadan city, Nigeria
  16. CHAPTER 9 Phytotechnologies in wastewater treatment: A low-cost option for developing countries
  17. CHAPTER 10 Sustainable drainage systems in highway drainage
  18. CHAPTER 11 Sustainable drainage, green and blue infrastructure in urban areas
  19. CHAPTER 12 From umbrellas to sandbags—An integration of flood risk management, engineering and social insights
  20. CHAPTER 13 Energy harvesting in water supply systems
  21. CHAPTER 14 Soft water engineering design approaches for urban revitalization in post-soviet housing estates
  22. CHAPTER 15 Canals—The past, the present and potential futures
  23. CHAPTER 16 Towards sustainable water engineering: Insights and inferences for the future
  24. Index