Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks
| Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks |
| Autore | Creaco Enrico |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Soggetto topico | History of engineering and technology |
| Soggetto non controllato |
actions
advection-dispersion equation ANN asset management chaos theory climate change culvert demand drainage network drainage networks emergency scenario emergency scenarios energy energy recovery erosion finite volume methods flooding flow regime transition gene expression programming genetic algorithm GIS modeling household discharge hydraulic hydraulic factors hydraulic simulation hydraulic transients hydropower in-situ intermittent water supply Kelowna leakage leakage management leakage reduction strategies local approximation machine learning multi-objective multi-objective optimization NSGA-II numerical oscillations numerical simulation numerical viscosity open channel optimization performance pipe bursts prediction Preissmann slot model pressure control pressure pipe pump as turbine real-time control reduced water consumption rehabilitation sediment transport sediment transport model sedimentation sewage sewer design stochastic sewer modelling SWMM total suspended solids transition stretch transmission mains trapezoidal stretch urban drainage system modeling urban water network management valve closing algorithm wastewater quality water consumption water demand water distribution networks water distribution system modeling water distribution systems water management water network partition water quality water system water utility WaterGEMS software web 2.0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910557142503321 |
Creaco Enrico
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| Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck
| Rivers of the Anthropocene / edited by Jason M. Kelly, Philip Scarpino, Helen Berry, James Syvitski, and Michel Meybeck |
| Autore | Meybeck Michel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of California Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 551.48/3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Human ecology
Rivers - Environmental aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato |
agency
anthropocene blue nile basin case study chicago river city state drainage ecological ecology ecosystem engineering ethics ethnography flooding great flood immigration landscape natural history natural world nile river public ecology rivers riverscape scholars seine river society water system waterways western europe world history |
| ISBN | 0-520-96793-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Anthropocenes : a fractured picture / Jason M. Kelly -- The importance of ecosystem service-based approaches to management of Anthropocene riverscapes / Andy Large, David Gilvear, and Eleanor Starkey -- Political ecology in the Anthropocene : a case study of irrigation management in the Blue Nile basin / Sina Marx -- Rivers at the end of the end of nature : ethical trajectories of the Anthropocene grand narrative / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Rivers, scholars, and society : a situation analysis / Kenneth S. Lubinski and Martin Thoms -- An Anthropocene landscape : drainage transformed in the English fenland / Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams, and Dinah Smith -- A western European river at the Anthropocene : the Seine (1880-2010) / Michel Meybeck and Laurence Lestel -- Anthropocene rivers : a historical examination of ideas and agency / Philip Scarpino -- The Great Tyne Flood of 1771 : community responses to an environmental crisis in the early Anthropocene / Helen Berry -- Engineering an island city- state : a 3D ethnographic comparison of the Singapore River and Orchard Road / Stephanie C. Kane -- Decoding the river : artists and scientists reveal the water system of the White River / Mary Miss and Tim Carter -- What is a river? : the Chicago River as hyperobject / Matt Edgeworth and Jeffrey Benjamin. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996333145503316 |
Meybeck Michel
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| University of California Press | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Mulholland
| William Mulholland and the rise of Los Angeles [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine Mulholland |
| Autore | Mulholland Catherine |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (468 p.) |
| Disciplina | 979.4/9404/092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Water-supply - California - Los Angeles - History
Engineers - California - Los Angeles |
| Soggetto non controllato |
academic
aqueduct biography california career history chinatown coming of age department of power department of water drought engineer engineering family history growing up immigrant life story los angeles mulholland natural history natural resources natural world nature newspaper owens valley primary source research scholarly southern california true story untold story water history water system west coast western united states |
| ISBN |
0-520-92901-2
1-59875-011-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Long Journey from Dublin to Los Angeles, 1855-1876 -- 2. The City of Angels, 1877 -- 3. The Private Water Company and Its Owners, 1878-1879 -- 4. Advancing in the Water Business, 1880-1886 -- 5. The New Superintendent, 1887-1892 -- 6. Water Plots and Politics, 1893-1895 -- 7. The Years of Mayor Eaton, 1898-1900 -- 8. The City's Victory over the "Grand Monopoly," 1901-1902 -- 9. New Regime for a Booming Town, 1903-1904 -- 10. Desperate Remedies in a Dry Season, 1904 -- 11. A Plan Revealed, 1905 -- 12. Preparations for an Aqueduct and a Trip to Washington, D.C., 1906 -- 13. The Big Job Begins, 1907 -- 14. The Chief and the General, 1908 -- 15. Building the Aqueduct: The Best Year, 1909 -- 16. Troubles and Interruptions, 1910 -- 17. Aqueduct Progress and Political Fireworks, 1911 -- 18. The Investigation, 1912 -- 19. The Completion of the Aqueduct, 1913 -- 20. After the Aqueduct, 1914-1919 -- 21. A Stormy Decade Begins, 1920-1923 -- 22. Boulder Dam and Dynamite, 1924 -- 23. More Dynamite, 1925-1927 -- 24. The Saint Francis Dam Disaster and After, 1928-1935 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783300003321 |
Mulholland Catherine
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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