The Nile River System, Africa: Ecohydrology and Management from Catchment to Coast (Volume 2) (Ecohydrology from Catchment to Coast, Volume 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323901220 ISBN 13: 9780323901222

Publisher: Elsevier, 2024

Synopsis

The Nile River System, Africa: Ecohydrology and Management from Catchment to Coast, Volume Two provides a critical synthesis of knowledge for an important global region. It covers water availability and needs in the Nile basin, focusing on socioeconomic, hydrological and ecological aspects and the catchment-coast continuum, also providing the information needed to develop a policy for the river that is less skewed toward immediate human needs and more focused on environmental impacts. Readers will find ecological perspectives, recent stresses, the current status of the basin, and more.

The greater integration of ecological and river management themes is the main strength of this book, making it a strong reference for academics and water resources managers, as well as fishery experts, aquatic scientists and social scientists.

• Provides a basis for improved environmental management of the Nile River basin from its headwaters to the Mediterranean Sea
• Presents a multidisciplinary approach, covering both environmental and societal needs
• Includes case studies from this diverse river that can be applied globally

About this title

About the Authors

Bakenaz A. Zeidan is Professor of Dams and Water Resources at Tanta university, Egypt. She was the head of the water department from 2003 until 2012. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students; including courses related to water engineering, Nile water crisis, and numerical modeling. She has more than 40 international published papers covering Nile water conflict, groundwater quality modelling, and FEM simulation of seismic responses of dam-reservoir-foundation coupled systems. She has participated in more than 50 scientific events and has supervised many Msc. and PhD dissertations. She is an active member of NGWA, ICOLD, USSD and is a peer reviewer for international water journals. Professor Zeidan is the focal point of Tanta university for the ministry of irrigation and water resources-Egypt and Founder of Tanta University Water Research and Technology Centre TUWRTC in 2011.

Professor, Environmental Chemical Engineering, Atomic Energy Authority, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

From the Back Cover

The Nile River System, Africa: Ecohydrology and Management from Catchment to Coast a critical synthesis of knowledge, for an important global region. It covers water availability and needs in the Nile basin focusing on socio-economic, hydrological and ecological aspects and the catchment-coast continuum. As is the case for all of the world’s large riparian rivers, there are major conflicts between the different needs of humans and the environment. This book provides information needed to develop a policy for the river that is less skewed toward immediate human needs, and more focused on the environmental impacts.

The Nile River System, Africa: Ecohydrology and Management from Catchment to Coast presents ecological perspectives, recent stresses on the river and new transboundary issues. It deals with the current status of the basin and covers a number of topics not dealt with in other volumes about the Nile basin. These include ecological as well as hydrological aspects including the water quality of the Nile River, lakes and coastal zone and its impact on activities such as fisheries and irrigation. The greater integration of ecological and river management themes is the main strength of this book and as such it will be a strong reference for academics and water resources managers, as well as fishery experts, aquatic scientists and social scientists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323901220
• ISBN 13: 9780323901222
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 370
• Editor: Zeidan Bakenaz A., Aly Aly Islam Metwally