Title:
Water in environmental planning
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Publication Information:
San Francisco : W H Freeman, 1978
ISBN:
9780716700791
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Summary
Summary
A classic advanced undergraduate/graduate level text showing how knowledge of hydrology, fluvial geomorphology, and river quality are used in environmental planning.
The focus is on maintenance or reclamation of environmental quality, with the text, examples, and exercises emphasizing early identification of problems and address nonstructural solutions
Table of Contents
| I Introduction |
| 1 Six Field Examples |
| II Hydrology |
| 2 Precipitation |
| 3 Interception |
| 4 Water Loss from Lakes |
| 5 Water Use by Vegetation |
| 6 Water in the Soil |
| 7 Groundwater |
| 8 The Water Balance |
| 9 Runoff Processes |
| 10 Calculation of Flood Hazard |
| 11 Human Occupance of Flood-Prone Lands |
| 12 Water Supply and Use |
| 13 Snow Hydrology |
| III Geomorphology |
| 14 Drainage Basins |
| 15 Hillslope Processes |
| 16 River Channels |
| 17 Sediment Production and Transport |
| 18 Channel Changes |
| IV River Quality |
| 19 Physical Characteristics of Water |
| 20 Chemical Characteristics of Water |
| 21 Stream Biota and Biologic Health |
| 22 Evaluation of Esthetics |
| Conversions and Equivalents |
| Subject Index |
| Author Index |
