Download or read book A Synoptically Guided Approach to Determining Suburbanization s Impacts on the Hydrology of the Red and White Clay Creeks Pennsylvania and Delaware written by Anne Marina Bagwell and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of major flooding events in Northern New Castle County, Delaware is presented in the context of the discrimination between flooding due to landuse change and flooding due to anomalous heavy rain events. The Christina River Basin encompasses the Red and White Clay Creek Watersheds. These basins are the focus of this study because of their short response time, shift to suburban landuse types, and impact on approximately 165,000 people in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. The Christina basin has recorded many floods since record keeping began approximately 70 years ago, These floods were classified according to the synoptic weather situation that was responsible for the flooding. A qualitative synoptic classification identified four general synoptic types responsible for flooding including tropical storms, frontal systems, coastal storms/nor'easters and convective systems. Stream gages across the Christina Basin have seen an increase in the frequency of flooding and in some cases an increase in the strength of the flooding over time. A detailed hydrologic model (HEC), developed by the Army Corps of Engineers, was used to investigate the role of landuse change from agricultural to single family residential landuse. The GIS-based preprocessor, HEC-GeoHMS, uses a digital elevation model, gage locations, landuse and soil to output basin characteristics to the model. Simulations are run for two diverse atmospheric forcings and various landuse scenarios. The resulting simulations yielded flood hydrographs which closely matched the observed discharge data. When actual hydrographs are compared to a landuse scenario representing pre-European settlement conditions (all forest), recent anomalous heavy precipitation still causes major floods but at levels that are 50-80% lower than that of the current landuse conditions. The results of this research provide a better understanding of the complex interaction between landuse changes and synoptic weather patterns. The results can also be used to forecast future flooding potential based upon changes in landuse across the Christina Basin.
Download or read book Geohydrology and Simulation of Ground water Flow in the Red Clay Creek Basin Chester County Pennsylvania and New Castle County Delaware written by Karen L. Vogel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book White Clay Creek State of the Watershed Report written by Martha Corrozi and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on the Hydrology of Corey Creek Basin Pennsylvania 1954 60 Hydrologic Effects of Land Use written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Act to Amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by Designating the White Clay Creek in Delaware and Pennsylvania for Study for Potential Addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and for Other Purposes written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White Clay Creek Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Groundwater Resources of the Lower Susquehanna River Basin Pennsylvania written by William H. Werkheiser and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security written by Irene Petrosillo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines environmental security from the perspective of landscape sciences, identifying the forces that threaten environmental security at all levels. It stems from the last five years of the Pilot Study Project on Use of Landscape Sciences for Environmental Assessment sponsored by the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society. Readers explore concepts of environmental security from subjective and objective perspectives.
Download or read book Long Island Sound written by James S. Latimer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Ocean Commission Report identified the need for regional ecosystem assessments to support coastal and ocean management. These assessments must provide greater understanding of physical and biological dynamics than assessments at global and national scales can provide but transcend state and local interests. This need and timeliness is apparent for Long Island Sound, where a multi-state regional restoration program is underway for America’s most urbanized estuary. Synthesis of the Long Island Sound ecosystem is needed to integrate knowledge across disciplines and provide insight into understanding and managing pressing issues, such as non-point sources of pollution, coastal development, global climatic change, and invasive species. Currently, there is a need for a comprehensive volume that summarizes the ecological and environmental dynamics and status of Long Island Sound and its myriad ecosystems. It has been 30 years since a comprehensive summary of Long Island Sound was prepared and 50 years since the pioneering work of Gordon Riley. Major advances in estuarine science are providing new insights into these systems, and yet, the condition of many estuaries is in decline in the face of continuing coastal development. There is an opportunity to lay a foundation for integrative coastal observing systems that truly provide the foundation for improved decision-making. This book will provide a key reference of our scientific understanding for work performed over the past three decades and guide future research and monitoring in a dynamic urbanized estuary.
Download or read book The Landscape Urbanism Reader written by Charles Waldheim and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Landscape Urbanism Reader Charles Waldheim—who is at the forefront of this new movement—has assembled the definitive collection of essays by many of the field's top practitioners. Fourteen essays written by leading figures across a range of disciplines and from around the world—including James Corner, Linda Pollak, Alan Berger, Pierre Bolanger, Julia Czerniak, and more—capture the origins, the contemporary milieu, and the aspirations of this relatively new field. The Landscape Urbanism Reader is an inspiring signal to the future of city making as well as an indispensable reference for students, teachers, architects, and urban planners.
Download or read book Methods for the Minimization of Radioactive Waste from Decontamination and Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities written by International Atomic Energy Agency and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and photographs introduce the life of George Washington Carver.
Download or read book Urban Informatics written by Wenzhong Shi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.
Download or read book Advances in Urban Ecology written by marina Alberti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking work is an attempt at providing a conceptual framework to synthesize urban and ecological dynamics into a common framework. The greatest challenge for urban ecologists in the next few decades is to understand the role humans play in urban ecosystems. The development of an integrated urban ecological approach is crucial to advance ecological research and to help planners and managers solve complex urban environmental issues. This book is a major step forward.
Download or read book Landscape Perspectives written by Marc Antrop and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.
Download or read book Ecology of Barnegat Bay New Jersey written by Michael J. Kennish and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applications and Challenges of Geospatial Technology written by Pavan Kumar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-24 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the scientific understanding and application of space-based technologies to address a variety of areas related to sustainable development; including environmental systems analysis, environmental management, clean processes, green chemistry, and green engineering. Geo-spatial techniques have gained considerable interest in recent decades among the earth and environmental science communities for solving and understanding various complex problems and approaches towards sustainable technologies. The book encompasses several scopes of interests on sustainable technologies in areas such as water resources, forestry, remote sensing, meteorology, atmospheric and oceanic modeling, environmental engineering and management, civil engineering, air and environmental pollution, water quality problems, etc. The book will appeal to people with an interest in geo-spatial techniques, sustainable development and other diverse backgrounds within earth and environmental sciences field.
Download or read book Smart Geography written by Stoyan Nedkov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on new and innovative spatial approaches based on smart solutions and developed in the field of geography and related interdisciplinary fields such as urban and regional studies, landscape ecology and ecosystem services. It includes contributions from a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Bulgarian Geographical Society. In turn, the book reveals how 21st-century geography is expected to facilitate the development of human capital and the knowledge society, while also offering place-specific solutions for sustainable regional development and utilization of the planet’s natural and human capital to improve social wellbeing. This volume is intended for the global geographical research community, as well as professionals and practitioners in all fields that deal with space, including regional planners and environmental managers.
