Sustainable Water Engineering
1st Edition
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Description
Sustainable Water Engineering introduces the latest thinking from academic, stakeholder and practitioner perspectives who address challenges around flooding, water quality issues, water supply, environmental quality and the future for sustainable water engineering. In addition, the book addresses historical legacies, strategies at multiple scales, governance and policy.
Key Features
- Offers well-structured content that is strategic in its approach
- Covers up-to-date issues and examples from both developed and developing nations
- Include the latest research in the field that is ideal for undergraduates and post-graduate researchers
- Presents real world applications, showing how engineers, environmental consultancies and international institutions can use the concepts and strategies
Readership
Researchers, post graduate students, final year undergraduates, and scientists in chemical engineering, civil engineering and geography working on sustainable water engineering. Practitioners working for engineering companies, local authorities and water companies
Table of Contents
1. Introduction – insights and issues
WATER SUPPLY
2. Potable water quality/treatment
3. Small scale domestic water supply (inc. RwH, Grey)
4. Macro potable water supply
5. Water efficiency in buildings
6. Supply in developing countries (inc. WASH)
SURFACE WATER DRAINAGE
7. Design and infrastructure
8. Sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
9. Community and property flood protection
10. Wastewater treatment/engineering
11. Domestic wastewater in developing countries
GREEN FUTURE
12. Hydroelectric power
13. Extracting energy from wastewater
14. Converting urine to energy
Details
- No. of pages:
- 312
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Elsevier 2020
- Published:
- 1st June 2020
- Imprint:
- Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9780128161203
About the Editor
Susanne Charlesworth
Susanne Charlesworth is a Professor in Urban Physical Geography at Coventry University in the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience. She is the author of more than 65 peer reviewed journal articles on urban pollution and SUDS, many book chapters, and has co-edited books on aquatic sedimentology and water resources. She collaborates with groups internationally and has given papers at international conferences worldwide. Her research interests are SUDS; Sedimentology; Role of Green Infrastructure; Ecosystem Services Provision; Urban lake and river sediments; Urban Physical Processes: Urban Hydrology; The risk to children’s health of contaminants in playground material; Sources of radioactive isotopes in street dust and its effect on human health; Efficiency of porous paving in degrading oil and dealing with metal pollutants.
Affiliations and Expertise
Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, Ryton Gardens, Coventry, UK
Colin Booth
Dr Colin Booth has been the Associate Head for Research and Scholarship for the Dept. of Architecture and the Built Environment since joining UWE in early 2012. He has also been the Acting Director of the Construction and Property Research Centre, until he became the Deputy Director of the Centre for Floods, Communities and Resilience. He has more than 80 peer reviewed journal articles, 6 co-edited books and 60 book chapters; he has taught water engineering and water resources management to both undergraduate and postgraduate students for more than a decade and his most recent research has focussed on flood protection engineering.
Affiliations and Expertise
School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Bristol, UK
Kemi Adeyeye
Kemi Adeyeye is an academic, chartered architectural technologist and chartered surveyor. She specialises in Integrated Design and her research focusses on the multi-disciplinary and multi-factorial aspects of Resource Efficiency and Resilience. Therefore, she works on solutions that integrates architecture, planning, people, policy, process and technological approaches for sustainability and resilience. She has ongoing collaborative projects on water efficiency, water infrastructure and transitional housing with professionals in industry and academia, in the UK as well as internationally. She has a track record on books and book chapters on water efficiency, water drainage, circular (spiral) economy.
Affiliations and Expertise
Associate Professor in Integrated Design, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath, UK