Research Catalog

Title

The Yellow River : water and life / Tetsuya Kusuda, editor.

Publication

Hackensack, New Jersey : World Scientific, [2010]

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Additional Authors

Kusuda, T. (Tetsuya)

Description

xiii, 175 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm

Summary

"The Yellow River basin, located in the semi-arid and arid climate zones in northern China, is confronted with serious problems of water deficit as well as water pollution. Due to increasing population, rising living standards, increasing pressure of expanding irrigation areas and developing industries in the basin, efficient water resource allocation has become a pressing issue. On the surface this problem appears domestic, but in reality it is of international proportions - it may impact other countries through trade. As such, development in the basin is severely curtailed." "In order to understand and provide a way of thinking about the issues pertaining to the current state of water resources in the basin, The Yellow River systematically explains the methods of modeling and the mechanism of water circulation on each element, while introducing several new-age technologies for water-saving. This book also presents the cutting-edge research results of a five-year project that improved the sustainability in utilizing and controlling water in the Yellow River basin."--Jacket.

Subject

• Water resources development > China > Yellow River
• Sustainable development > China > Yellow River
• Water-supply > China > Yellow River
• Sustainable development
• Water resources development
• Water-supply
• Hydrogeografie
• Ökologie
• Wasserwirtschaft
• Nachhaltigkeit
• Fluss > Ökologie > China
• Hydrogeographie
• China > Yellow River
• Hwangho
• Hwangho

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Tetsuya Kusuda -- Profile of the Yellow River Basin / Dawen Yand and Hiroshi Ishidaira -- Characteristics of the nature -- Human activities -- Socio-economic states -- Water resources and use / Dawen Yang [and others] -- Water resources availability -- Water-use -- Water quality and river ecology / Tetsuya Kusuda and Osamu Higashi -- Water quality in the Yellow River Basin -- Water quality in the Wei River Basin -- Water quality in the Wei River -- Simulation with an integrated model on water quality -- River environment in Xi'an -- Sediment yield and transport in the Middle Yellow River Basin / Haruyuki Hashimoto [and others] -- Sediment yield -- Fluvial geomorphology -- Field measurements of flood flows -- Formula for flow resistance and sediment transport -- Comparison among theoretically calculated, experimental and observed results -- Analysis of flood and sediment runoff -- Modeling and simulation on water in the Yellow River / Dawen Yang -- Hydrological model and simulations -- Analysis of water resources in the last half century -- Projection of water supply and demand with economy and food supply in the Yellow River Basin / Hidefumi Imura, Hiroaki Shirakawa and Akio Onishi -- Analysis of current water-use using the water resource supply-demand model -- Impacts of economic growth and urbanization on water resource supply-demand balance -- Impacts of changes in food demand on water resources -- Toward the future.

ISBN

• 9789814280952
• 981428095X

LCCN

2010287223

OCLC

• ocn377754500
• 377754500
• SCSB-9131949

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library