PUBLICATIONS CATALOGUE 2012 - IWA Publishing

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• The student who wishes to get an overview of future
challenges and new possibilities;
• The planner – water and energy have to be planned
together;
• The designer of a water and wastewater system – how does
energy come in?
• The operator of a water or a wastewater treatment plant –
what are the possibilities to make the system more efficient;
• The wastewater treatment manager – what are the
possibilities to save and recover energy in a wastewater
treatment plant;
• The researcher – looking for connections between different
specialities. What kind of cross-disciplinary research would
be needed;
• The power and energy professional – mostly the water issue
is forgotten - until there is water scarcity;
• The water professional – it is not only a matter of operating
water systems efficiently. Water professionals have to be
much more engaged in the water quantity and water quality
implications of energy generation. It is too late to attack
the problems by developing methods for the treatment of
contaminated water. The water consumption and the water
pollution simply have to be closely watched already at the
energy production phase.
May 2012 • 250 pages • Hardback
ISBN: 9781780400266 • Ebook ISBN: 9781780400693*
IWA Members Price: £51.75/US$93.15/e69.86
Non Members Price: £69.00/US$124.20/e93.15
Environment
Renewable Energy Applications
for Freshwater Production
Editors: Jockhen Bundschuh and Jan Hoinkis
Worldwide, many regions have a great
potential to cover part of their pressing
water needs by renewable energy
powered water treatment processes
using either thermal or membrane
based technologies. Not only arid and
semiarid regions are increasingly
exposed to water shortage but also
many other regions face a limitation of
freshwater resources either by
increasing contamination of surface
water bodies and/or groundwater resources unsuitable for
drinking and irrigation purposes either due to their high grade
of mineralization or their contents of toxic components as for
example arsenic, which affects worldwide the drinking water of
over 200 million people.
In many areas without centralized water supply, treatment
techniques using locally available renewable energy resources
such as wind, solar and geothermal can we provide an
economic, social, and environmentally sustainable option
for clean water production from seawater and from highly
mineralized or otherwise unsuitable ground and surface water.
This book provides an overview on possible cost-efficient
techniques and application opportunities for different scales and
shows why the implementation of these technologies faces
numerous technological, economic and policy barriers and
gives suggestions how these hurdles can be overcome. Costs
of novel treatment units using renewable energy sources are
discussed and compared with those of other technologies for
clean water production considering external costs, such as
environmental and social costs which are caused by using fossil
fuel based technologies. Energy efficiency is highlighted since
it is of special importance in systems that are to be powered
by renewable energy. Moreover applications of water supply
systems providing water in emergency condition are discussed.
Co-published with CRC Press
May 2012 • 350 pages • Hardback
ISBN: 9781780401218
IWA Members Price: £57.75/US$103.95/e77.96
Non Members Price: £76.99/US$138.58/e103.94
Environment
Practices and Impacts of Climate
Change on Rainfall Extremes and
Urban Drainage
Editors: Patrick Willems, Jonas Olsson, Karsten
Arnbjerg-Nielsen, and Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen
Practices and Impacts of Climate Change
on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage
provides a state-of-the-art overview of
existing methodologies and relevant
results related to the assessment of the
climate change impacts on urban rainfall
extremes as well as on urban hydrology
and hydraulics. This overview focuses
mainly on several difficulties and
limitations regarding the current
methods and discusses various issues
and challenges facing the research community in dealing with
the climate change impact assessment and adaptation for urban
drainage infrastructure design and management.
Contents
Introduction: Climate change simulations
Modeling of Urban Rainfall Extremes in a Stationary Context
Study of Rainfall and Urban Runoff Variability and Trends in a
Non-Stationary Context
Statistical Downscaling of Rainfall Extremes
Climate Factors and Changes in IDF Relationships
Climate Change Impacts on Urban Drainage: Results and
Regional Differences
Needs for Adaptation and Flexible Designs
Conclusions
August 2012 • 200 pages • Paperback
ISBN: 9781780401256 • Ebook ISBN: 9781780401263*
IWA Members Price: £63.75/US$114.75/e86.06
Non Members Price: £85.00/US$153.00/e114.7
Environment
Making Space for the River
Experiences with Multifunctional River Planning
in the US and Europe
Editors: Jeroem Frank Warner, Arwin van Buuren and
Jurian Edelenbos
Making Space for the River examines the
recent developments in river
management that aim to ‘green’ rivers,
including increasing river discharge for
flood management, enhancing natural
and landscape values, promoting local or
regional economic development, urban
regeneration. This offers opportunities
and synergies, but also risks as it crosses
established boundaries and touches on
multiple stakeholder interests, which can
easily clash. The book demonstrates that there is no one-sizefits-all
prescription to river management.
The numerous linkages to achieve multiple goals almost
inevitably lead to promoting some links at the expense of
others and cause tensions between conflicting parties. Making
Space for the River helps the reader to understand the policy
dynamics that leads to these tensions and pays attention to
the attempts to organize connections between stakes, frames,
and goals of different actors in the process, descriptions
and analyses of the effectiveness and legitimacy of these
interconnections.
Making Space for the River provides an interdisciplinary approach
that examines:
• The diversity of programmes: Does making space for the
river mean the same everywhere, or is there a very local
interpretation? What was the rationale to make space for
the river in the various countries? Was space for the river
formulated as a national policy – if so, what did it look like?
• The practical lessons learned: How was Making Space for the
River philosophy implemented? How did the policy or project
evolve over time and why? What can we learn from the case
studies - what went right, what went wrong? Did Making
Space for the River enable processes and outcomes beyond
its original scope?
• The conceptual framework and methodology: Different
disciplines bring different ways of knowing. The authors of
this book come from a variety of disciplines including public
administration, town and country planning, geography and
anthropology.
This book is written for practitioners and students of
environmental policy, spatial planning, land use and water
management. It may be used as a textbook for MSc courses
concerned with river management.
Contents:
• Making Space: Creating Mind Space and Connecting Values
• Space for the River: a Condensed State of the Art
• Space for the River: The Troublesome Search for Acceptable
Programs of Water, Nature and Development
• Tripping over their Own Heels
• A Comparison of two Dutch Rooms for the River Projects:
Overdiepse Polder and Noordwaard
• CalFed and Collaborative Watershed Management: Success
Despite Failure?
• Trends in Water Resources Management in the United
States: The Rogue and Willamette River Cases
• Where’s the ‘Space for Water’: Flooding Policy Bottlenecks
in England
• Finding ‘Space for Water’: Flooding Policy Bottlenecks in
England
• The Jubilee River: Flood Alleviation or Flood Creation
Scheme on the Thames?
• Making Space for German Rivers - Practical challenges and
Legal Constraints
• Strong Sentiments on the River Scheldt
• Dike Displacement in Flanders and the Netherlands
• Flood-risk and Watershed Management Conflicts in France:
How Space for the River Policies Challenge Resilience
Thinking
• Joint strategic Planning on the River Loire: the Bréhémont
Experiment
• Application of Dutch Participatory Planning Methods to
Create more Space for the Danube River in the Cat’s Bend
Region in Romania
• Making Space for the River Tisza, Hungary
• Conclusions
August 2012 • 300 pages • Paperback
ISBN: 9781780401126 • Ebook ISBN: 9781780401133*
IWA Members Price: £74.25/US$133.65/e100.24
Non Members Price: £99.00/ S$178.20/e133.65
* For Ebook Prices please see page 2
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