The Tigris & Euphrates River [i.e. Rivers]

The Tigris & Euphrates River [i.e. Rivers]
Author: Shane Mountjoy
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2005
Genre: Euphrates River
ISBN: 0791082466

Discusses the two Fertile Crescent rivers, including their significant role in all periods of the history of the region, their geographical features, and the modern-day environmental and political issues surrounding their use.

Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands

Sustainability of Engineered Rivers In Arid Lands
Author: Jurgen Schmandt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-09-16
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1108417035

Interdisciplinary volume considers how nine arid/semi-arid river basins with irrigated agriculture will survive future climate change, siltation, and decreased flow.

Atmospheric Rivers

Atmospheric Rivers
Author: F. Martin Ralph
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2020-07-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030289060

This book is the standard reference based on roughly 20 years of research on atmospheric rivers, emphasizing progress made on key research and applications questions and remaining knowledge gaps. The book presents the history of atmospheric-rivers research, the current state of scientific knowledge, tools, and policy-relevant (science-informed) problems that lend themselves to real-world application of the research—and how the topic fits into larger national and global contexts. This book is written by a global team of authors who have conducted and published the majority of critical research on atmospheric rivers over the past years. The book is intended to benefit practitioners in the fields of meteorology, hydrology and related disciplines, including students as well as senior researchers.

The Euphrates

The Euphrates
Author: John Batchelor
Publisher: Hodder Wayland
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780382065187

A description of this historic river as it wends from Turkey to the Persian Gulf.

Studies in Armenian Art

Studies in Armenian Art
Author: Nira Stone
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-07-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004400508

Nira Stone (1938-2013) was a scholar of Armenian and Byzantine Art. Her broad and close acquaintance with the field of Armenian art history covered many fields of Armenian artistic creativity. Nira Stone made notable contributions to the study of Armenian manuscript painting, mosaics, and other forms of artistic expression. Of particular interests are her researches on this art in its historical and religious contexts, such as the study of apocryphal elements in Armenian Gospel iconography, the place of the mosaics of Jerusalem in the context of mosaics in Byzantine Palestine, and of the interplay between religious movements, such as hesychasm, and Armenian manuscript painting.

Turkey's Water Policy

Turkey's Water Policy
Author: Aysegul Kibaroglu
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2011-08-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642196365

Water is a strategic natural resource of vital importance to all nations. As such it has been the cause of several international disputes. For Turkey especially, water is crucial to social and economic development. Turkey’s current national water regime that emphasises water resources development and management for productive uses, however, faces growing environmental concerns and international criticism regarding transboundary water cooperation. Furthermore, EU accession requires Turkey to adopt an extensive and ambitious body of EU water law. To understand Turkey’s position to international water law, the national policies and socio-economic circumstances that impact water resources management need to be considered. This book fills the existing knowledge gap through a broad perspective and analysis of the current state of Turkey’s water policy and its management of both national and transboundary waters. It is a unique undertaking that brings together Turkish and international authors, practitioners and academics, covering all aspects of water management

The Invention of Rivers

The Invention of Rivers
Author: Dilip da Cunha
Publisher: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780812249996

Featuring more than 150 illustrations, many in color, The Invention of Rivers integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally constructed as lines granted special roles in defining human habitation and everyday practice.

A World of Rivers

A World of Rivers
Author: Ellen Wohl
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2010-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0226904806

Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can’t step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree—natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world’s great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes. A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Murray-Darling in Australia and the Yellow River in China to Central Europe’s Danube and the United States’ Mississippi, the book journeys down the most important rivers in all corners of the globe. Wohl shows us how pollution, such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia, has affected biodiversity in the water. But rivers are also resilient, and Wohl stresses the importance of conservation and restoration to help reverse the effects of human carelessness and hubris. What all these diverse rivers share is a critical role in shaping surrounding landscapes and biological communities, and Wohl’s book ultimately makes a strong case for the need to steward positive change in the world’s great rivers.