Water: A way of life: Sustainable water management in a cultural context
Water: A way of life: Sustainable water management in a cultural context
Author(s): A.J.M. (Lida) Schelwald-van der Kley
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 2009-03-15
Format: PDF Language: English
ISBN10: 0415551048
ISBN13: 9780415551045
Pages: 140
Size on disk: 4.7 MB
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Why do many water management projects, begun with the best of intentions, still fail? How is it that large infrastructural water works often encounter opposition? Is it perhaps, among other things, the lack of attention for the cultural context? These and other intriguing questions are dealt with in this book. The authors, having 20 years of experience on water and sanitation in an international context, have investigated the relationship between water and culture world-wide in order to find new keys to successful and sustainable water management.
This book is based on extensive research and is intended to form a cultural road towards new sustainable water management practices. "Water: a way of life" takes the reader on a water journey through time and across the world’s continents. Along the way it explains the past and present ways in which different cultures around the world, both traditional and modern, view and manage water in response to the distinct environment they inhabit. As beliefs and values are at the heart of any culture, it also highlights the views of the main world religions on water and its use. A better understanding of cultural water beliefs and practices may lead to new concepts for future sustainable water management - from flood management to water supply, sanitation and irrigation management.
The book will be useful to water professionals exporting knowledge and technologies to foreign countries where the challenge is to create sustainable solutions for water management by taking into account local, cultural factors. It is also intended to encourage world leaders, politicians and decision-makers responsible for water management to use their power, knowledge and influence to really make a change for the benefit of the people they represent. In this way, water can become a source of cooperation rather than a source of conflict.
The authors trust that this book, about water and culture, intended for a truly international audience, will be a source of inspiration.
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Does anybody can make download links for these (13) articles:
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4. Research at Imperial College on the effect of elevated temperatures on concrete
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Fire Safety Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, 7 April 1988, Pages 69-72
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5. Nonlinear thermal stress analysis of a massive concrete structure
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7. On the multiaxial behaviour of concrete exposed to high temperature
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8. Transient heating effect on high strength concrete
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9. Concrete at temperatures above 1000°C
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10. Creep of concrete at temperatures above normal
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Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 4, Issue 1, May 1966, Pages 90-96
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11. Concrete at high temperatures — A general review
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Fire Safety Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, 7 April 1988, Pages 55-68
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12. Transient creep of concrete under biaxial stress and high temperature
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12. Thermal shock in a nuclear containment wall due to loss-of-coolant accident
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Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 38, Issue 1, July 1976, Pages 169-176
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The National Electrical Code is an internationally accepted safety code for electrical and power wiring. It specifies the minimum provisions necessary for protecting people and property from hazards arising from the use of electricity and electrical equipment. Anyone involved in any phase of the electrical industry must be aware of how to use and apply the Code on the job. It undergoes a rigorous review and revision process every 3 years by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). This book is a trusted resource for understanding and applying the Code.
The 25th edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the changes given in the 2005 National Electrical Code. This is a reference book of commentary, discussion, and analysis on the most commonly encountered rules of the 2005 National Electrical Code. Designed to be used in conjunction with the 2005 NE Code book published by the National Fire Protection Association, this Handbook presents thousands of illustrations—diagrams and photos—to supplement the detailed text in explaining and clarifying NEC regulations. Description of the background and rationale forxiii specific Code rules is aimed at affording a broader, deeper, and readily developed understanding of the meaning and application of those rules. The style of presentation is conversational and intended to facilitate a quick, practical grasp of the ideas and concepts that are couched in the necessarily terse, stiff, quasi-legal language of the NEC document itself.
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From the following link you can see the main web site of the ESDEP course. Its content is completely about steel structures.
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You can download pdf version from the following link and it contains 5118 pages. After extracting its capacity should be 137 MB. But I didn’t go through all of the pages available as it has over 5000 pages. However as my observation the pdf is ok.
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Please note that you have to download all five parts and keep them in a same folder before extracting. Downloading just one file (only about 20 MB) will not work. As i used short link it can't be seen part1, part2,.. at the end of above 5 file. That is why i note it here.
But if you want to get print out, normal Acrobat or Adobe reader may not be useful as it just display pages but not Menu bar, Tool bar and other things. But using Foxit Reader you can get print out easily.
Here is the link for Foxit reader. However for on screen reading i prefer Adobe reader.
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This is the first attempt to summarise the geology of Africa by presenting it in an atlas and to synthesise the stratigraphy, tectonics, economic geology, geohazards and geosites of each country and territory of the continent. Furthermore, the digitised geological maps are correlated and harmonised according to the current stratigraphic time table. The atlas aims to contribute to capacity building in African Earth Sciences and to initiate research and economic opportunities by providing a database of basic geological background information.
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Author: Michael Païdoussis, Stuart Price, Emmanuel de Langre | Size: 5.59 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | Year: 2010 | pages: 396 | ISBN: 0521119421
Structures in contact with fluid flow, whether natural or man-made, are inevitably subject to flow-induced forces and flow-induced vibration: from plant leaves to traffic signs and to more substantial structures, such as bridge decks and heat exchanger tubes. Under certain conditions the vibration may be self-excited, and it is usually referred to as an instability. These instabilities and, more specifically, the conditions under which they arise are of great importance to designers and operators of the systems concerned because of the significant potential to cause damage in the short term. Such flow-induced instabilities are the subject of this book. In particular, the flow-induced instabilities treated in this book are associated with cross-flow, that is, flow normal to the long axis of the structure. The book treats a specific set of problems that are fundamentally and technologically important: galloping, vortex-shedding oscillations under lock-in conditions, and rain-and-wind-induced vibrations, among others. The emphasis throughout is on providing a physical description of the phenomena that is as clear and up-to-date as possible.
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