Category Archives: e-book
Wave Overtopping Manual
State of the art of studies on Wave Overtopping of Sea Defences and Related Structures is finally reported in a manual at http://www.overtopping-manual.com/index.html released in August 2007. This Overtopping Manual gives guidance on analysis and/or prediction of wave overtopping for … Continue reading
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Atlas of Springs of the Veneto Region
Just a brief post, especially for (but not only) Venetian friends interested in water resources: ARPAV (Environmental Protection Agency of the Veneto Region) has published its Atlas of Springs of the Veneto Region (in Italian only), an interesting collection of … Continue reading
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Pesticides, health, organic farming
Well, well, well. I tend to watch at environmentalism (the Italian one, at least) with some healthy suspicion, but in this case: honours to Legambiente! An association (here briefly described in English) that can proudly claim to be the “mother” … Continue reading
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APAT Coastal Work Atlas
Italian Agenzia per la Protezione dell’Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici (
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Coastal Engineering Manual e-book
US Army Corps of Engineer publishes a Coastal Engineering Manual. Hydrodynamic and sediment processes in coastal are treated, with a focus on the project applications of the physical processes. The manual is organized in pdf files, with an interesting Appendix … Continue reading
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morphodynamics e-book
Professor Gary Parker (http://cee.uiuc.edu/people/parkerg/) is one of the most famous morphodynamicists. His fields of interest cover Morphodynamics of dam removal Fluvial incision into bedrock Deltaic and reservoir sedimentation Response of large rivers to sea level rise etc… Prof. Parker shares … Continue reading
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