Hydrology and Global Environmental ChangeHydrology and Global Environmental Change presents the hydrological contribution to, and consequences of, global environmental change. Assuming little or no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, the book looks at the main processes of global environmental change - global scale processes, large regional processes, repetitive processes - and how the hydrological cycle, processes and regimes impact on GEC and vice-versa. |
Contents
Components of the water balance | |
Patterns of hydrological behaviour | |
Water quality and the flux of materials | |
Change in the catchment | |
acid deposition and global | |
Hydrological processes and the earth system | |
Human impacts on material fluxes | |
an overview | |
Acronyms | |
References | |
Index | |
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