Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments Arid Lowlands and Water Bodies Rehabilitation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Badescu, Viorel (Editor), Cathcart, Richard B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Engineering,
• Subjects: Environment.; Sustainable development.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.
• Physical Description: XXXIX, 790 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642147791
• ISSN: 1863-5520

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.