Books published by A A Balkema Publishers

This volume looks at scientific knowledge and techniques concerning environmental matters. The proceedings focus on topics such as hydraulic protection of territory and defence, utilization of water resources, and architecture.

This text is taken from the proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Entomology in Florence in August 1996. One of the themes is ecology and population dynamics, with papers presented on single species dynamics, population interactions, and community ecology.

Engineers from around the world recount their successes and failures in attempting to deal with unique and quixotic landscapes.

This collection of symposium papers covers a wide range of topics on rock fragmentation, from case studies to attempts, for example, at fractal representation of the fracture process itself.

This text deals with the subject of remote sensing, and the use of technology to aid environmental maintenance. Topics covered include a microcomputer based grassland local administration support system.

This text gives students of explorational geophysics a view into the interpretation of Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) curves.

The interest in finite element method as a solution technique of the computer age is reflected in the availability of many general and special purpose software based on this technique. This work aims to provide a complete and detailed explanation.

This text on building materials includes discussion of: structural clay products; rocks and stones; wood; materials for making concrete; ferrous and non-ferrous metals; and miscellaneous materials.

Covering the subject of ground control in mining, this volume looks at such topics as: rock-slab theory of ground pressure in work and practice, the role of in situ-stress in mine planning, and the status of the art of cable bolting.

The aim of the text is to highlight recent advances in fouling control technology and, at the same time, provide basic information on the biology of fouling organisms found in the Indian Ocean.

Papers based on training course lectures at different annual meetings of the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP), held during the five-year period 1993-1997, examine desert margins and their temporal changes in the last 135,000 years.

Presenting research on reactive flows, this work covers theoretical aspects, experimental techniques and the development of models implemented in computational fluid dynamics software.

This text provides a process-oriented discussion of the theory, methodology and philosophy of geologic and mine modelling using two commercial software packages: Techbase, a leader for mineral exploration and modelling bedded deposits; and Lynx.

The main objective of this text is to provide a general approach towards structural masonry through an integration of experimental and computational techniques.

Volumes 37 and 38 of this annual published since 1951 include excavational reports and analytical studies on archaeology, palaeobotany and archaezoology.

This book looks at the application of a new production philosophy, leading to "lean production" (using less space, less human effort, less product development time etc), is expected to change almost every industry and bring about radical changes.

This volume contains papers contributed by experts on developments in geotextiles, geomembranes and other geosynthesis in ground improvement.

This volume presents the proceedings of a symposium on rock mechanics, held in the USA in 1995. Topics covered include: rock dynamics; tool-rock interaction; radioactive waste disposal; underground mining and fragmentation and blasting.

Water-rock interactions play an important role in nearly all physical and chemical processes operating on the Earth's surface and subsurface. This work contains the proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction.

These proceedings contain the complete papers or abstracts of all the presentations and posters presented at the eighth International Echinoderm Conference, held in Dijon, France in September, 1994. Coverage includes: extinct classes; crinoids; asteroids; ophiuroids; holothuroids; and echinoids.

The papers in this volume have been grouped according to the main sub-themes of the congress and primarily deal with the biodiversity issues of invasive crustacea, ecology and behaviour and fisheries and aquaculture.

This text deals with certain geological aspects of the extreme geographical locations of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Topics include Brazil - geology and vertebrate paleontology, and others.

This annual covers excavation reports and analytical studies on archaeology, palaeobotany and archaeozoology. Topics covered include the Allerod vegetation of southeastern Friesland, and Bronze Age metal and amber in the Netherlands.

This text looks at sediment transport, two-phase flow and loose boundary hydraulics which are some of the names used to identify problems of interaction between fluid flow (water or air) and its boundaries that may be non-cohesive (alluvial).

Summarizing tracing techniques in geohydrology, this book contains chapters written by specialists in the fields of geology, hydrology, chemistry, virology, engineering and isotopes. The accompanying CD aids the analysis of tracing test data.

The problem of reservoir eutrophication and resulting increase of algal activity is common for seven Dutch waterworks. In this context, the text investigates dissolved air flotation (DAF) as an alternative for algae removal.