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Exploring how to make the mineral industry safe, efficient and ecologically sustainable, this thorough text investigates the links between geologic setting, mining and process technologies, economics, environment and stakeholder communities.

This volume including maps and land-use case studies, contains a broad-ranging collection of scientific papers on aggregate resources and related topics, providing a valuable reference for those in this field.

This collection of papers covers many topics in the area of mineral processing, such as: physical enrichment processing; fine particle processing; flotation fundamentals and technology; industrial minerals processing; and waste treatment.

This work reflects preoccupations with the threats posed to our environment due to climatic factors, major and natural hazards of all kinds and demographic influences. Topics covered include land surface processes, coastal zones and others.

Part of a biennial series in which surveys of selected topics are presented, this volume discusses: velatida and spinulosida; adhesion in echinoderms; biological activities and biological role of triterpene glycosides from holothuroids; and mutable collagenous tissue.

This title takes into consideration a variety of issues involved in the silting and de-silting of reservoirs. Attention is paid to sediment distribution, along with control of silting.

This textbook compiles reports written by about 35 internationally recognized authorities, and covers a range of interests for geotechnical engineers. Topics include: fundamentals for mechanics of granular materials.

Divided into four parts, this work presents integrated studies and regional and case studies, and covers environmental constraints and effects, and the behaviour of earth masses.

Presenting the mechanical aspects of reinforced soil (RS) behaviour, this book begins with simple RS models, before discussing and analysing more complex topics.

Addressing the techno-socio-economic challenges involved in the protection, conservation, recycling and equitable utilization of water as an economic good, this text explores the linkages and dynamics of interactions involving water.

A collection of workshop papers providing state-of-the-art reviews on all aspects of fragmentation, including photographic requirements, image enhancement, statistical treatment, and applications in quarrying, mining and minerals processing.

Uganda's Nakivubo swamp has been receiving wastewater from Kampala for over 30 years and consists of a floating root mat. It's potential to remove nutrients and pathogens from wastewater in a sustainable way, while maintaining ecological quality and biodiversity, is investigated in this work.

This book is the translation of a Dutch report on a study on concrete block revetments on dike slopes, published in 1984 in Dutch. It is primarily for technical staff involved in design and management, water boards, provincial public works departments and The Netherlands Public Works Department.

This volume focuses on approaches towards a better understanding of the geological, hydrogeological and paleoclimatic evolution of Northeast Africa. Among the topics discussed are Phanerozoic interplate dynamics, sedimentology and stratigraphy, and more.

This set of proceedings volumes provides a broad coverage of basic and applied research projects dealing with the application of engineering principles to both food production and processing

As bridges spans get longer, lighter and more slender, aerodynamic loads become a matter of serious study. This volume of proceedings reflect the co-operation between civil and mechanical engineering and meteorology in this field.

In this work, practical recommendations are given for sound dike design. Particular emphasis is placed on design, management and maintenance. Coverage includes the assessment of soil properties and different types of loadings on a dike.

This work explores hydropower in the new millennium. Topics covered include: trends in the development of hydropower projects; trends in the operation of hydropower plants; hydropower as environmentally sustainable generation.

This text focuses on the principles and methods of using growth layers formed in teeth and bones of mammals to make a judgement on essential traits of the animal's life history. It is intended for zoologists, wild-game biologists and zoo archaeologists.

This is a collection of national reports from most European countries on design-methods, as prescribed in more or less strict national codes or recommendations and so daily used in practice by consulting engineers and contractors.

This work features presentations by international experts on mine environment and ventilation. Topics covered include analysis and design of ventilation systems, coal bed methane and gas modelling, dust generation and control, and heat flow.

A study in the development of flow adaptive numerical schemes in computational hydraulics directed to enhancing modelling capabilities. It includes examples such as additional flow resistance due to flexible vegetation; one-dimensional supercritical flow; and flow in networks of channels.

This volume comprises the proceedings of a symposium on marine mammal survey assessment methods, which took place in Seattle, Washington, USA.

This volume on the recharge of phreatic aquifiers in (semi-)arid areas includes coverage of: recharge principles, problems and developments; recharge from precopitation; recharge from intermittent flow; and recharge from permanent water bodies. Ca...

This book studies the impacts of various developed tools on the hydrodynamics of flow and transport mechanisms, illustrating this through a series of extensive numerical simulations of single and multiple realizations (Monte Carlo method).

Typically a large number of interests with conflicting requirements are involved in the management of a water system. The computer-based method of management introduced in this text - dynamic control - is designed to determine the most effective o...

A practical manual covering all aspects of this field, this informative book, compiled by researchers from Fugro, Delft Geotechnics and several other Dutch contractors, covers everything from pre-design to the use of completed structures.

In considering the geology of Western Gondwana, this text covers: the Pan-African-Brasiliano cratons; the Pan-African-Brasiliano fold belts; and amosaic of Pan-African-Brasiliano mini-cratons and mino-fold belts.

This work looks at the development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials that, with the help of numerical models, have increased the ability to predict and to interpret the mechanical behaviour of geotechnical works.

This collection of papers addresses a number of topics in hydrology tracing techniques including: protection of natural resources against pollution; the use of natural and artificial tracers.