The proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop 'Wastewater Reuse - Risk Assessment, Decision-Making and Environmental Security' , held in Istanbul, Turkey, October 12-16, 2006 will provide information to the readers involved with water management, wastewater, salinity, environmental issues, economists, social workers and insurance groups. The book has information on the current situation of water management in the world and especially the Middle-east and Mediterranean regions; it addresses some of the most difficult international conflicts. Wastewater is a by-product of agricultural, industrial or domestic water use, and can be an environmental hazard causing damage to soil and to water resources. However, as demonstrated in many of the papers, it can also be a benefit if exploited correctly. Papers presented cover in great detail and depth the risk assessment, decision-making approaches and environmental security. Information about design, installation, management of wastewater treatment facilities, and use for saline water are provided by experts from the European Union, UNESCO, World Bank, United States, Canada and other contributing agencies dealing with the water scarcity situation. Forty five (45) selected papers are included in this publication. This is a great contribution added to the advancement of science and technology; it is also hoped that this meeting and publication will foster the creation of professional and personal links among scientists and will stimulate exchange visits and development of cooperative research projects by the participants and the readers. The available materials will help readers to collect any desired information, activate their own program, and seek help from the experts in the field. This ARW, fully funded by NATO, provided the participants a stage to meet 63 people from 20 countries and discuss important issues.

Sediment Cascades: An Integrated Approach provides a comprehensive overview that addresses the transport of sediment through the landscape. Suitable for academic researchers, industry practitioners, research students and advanced level undergraduates, seeking detailed knowledge and an up-to-date review of the recent research literature. The emphasis is on contemporary sediment system dynamics with relevance both to landscape management and landform development.

Sediment Cascades: An Integrated Approach begins with an explanation of the need for an integrated approach to sediment delivery systems and introduces the main themes of sediment production, delivery, storage and transfer. Further chapters then focus on specific environments from mountains, through floodplains, to estuaries and the continental shelf.

Focuses on contemporary sediment system dynamics and current research
Covers a sequence of environments from steep mountains to the continental shelf
Highlights the continuity of the subject by linking each component area with its adjacent elements

Waterflooding is an important technique in oil recovery and has been instrumental in increasing the world’s petroleum reserves. This monograph provides a practical guide to the design of surface facilities and wells for a waterflood, focusing on conceptual and detailed design principles, economic calculations, obtaining management and regulatory approvals, and installation.

This monograph is devoted to a comprehensive review of the practical aspects of designing a waterflood system.

The list of disciplines involved in waterflooding includes several major branches of engineering plus such specialized areas as metallurgy, water chemistry, and corrosion engineering. This volume will concentrate on the design of surface and downhole equipment, economic evaluations of waterflood projects, and government regulation of such projects.


Contents

1. Introduction
2. Planning
3. Information and Data Analysis
4. Water Sources and Water Treatment
5. Injection Station Design
6. Injection System
7. Well Production and Injection Practices
8. System Consolidation and Automation
9. Economic Evaluation
10. Government Regulation
11. Cooperative Agreements
12. Design and Implementation: Building the System
Appendix A: Major Project Execution Procedures
Appendix B: Example Calculations
Appendix C: Definitions of Economic Parameters
Appendix D: State Regulatory Agencies
Author/Subject Index .

Waterflooding is an important method of improving recovery, but successful waterflood performance requires a sound design. This book begins with understanding the basic principles of immiscible displacement, then presents a systematic procedure for designing a waterflood. The emphasis is on fundamental concepts and their application in solving various waterflooding problems.

Contents
• Microscopic efficiency of immiscible displacement
• Macroscopic displacement efficiency of linear waterflood
• Immiscible Displacement in Two Dimensions-Areal
• Vertical Displacement in Linear and Areal Models
• Waterflood Design
• The Role of Reservoir Geology in the Design and Operation of Waterfloods

High resolution upwind and centred methods are today a mature generation of computational techniques applicable to a wide range of engineering and scientific disciplines, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) being the most prominent up to now. This textbook gives a comprehensive, coherent and practical presentation of this class of techniques. The book is designed to provide readers with an understanding of the basic concepts, some of the underlying theory, the ability to critically use the current research papers on the subject, and, above all, with the required information for the practical implementation of the methods. Direct applicability of the methods include: compressible, steady, unsteady, reactive, viscous, non-viscous and free surface flows. For this third edition the book was thoroughly revised and contains substantially more, and new material both in its fundamental as well as in its applied parts.

Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS is an introduction to the critical issues surrounding mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) across a wide range of disciplines for the non-specialist reader.

* Examines the key influences Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cartography have on the study of geography and other related disciplines
* Represents the first in-depth summary of the “new cartography” that has appeared since the early 1990s
* Provides an explanation of what this new critical cartography is, why it is important, and how it is relevant to a broad, interdisciplinary set of readers
* Presents theoretical discussion supplemented with real-world case studies
* Brings together both a technical understanding of GIS and mapping as well as sensitivity to the importance of theory