Books published by A A Balkema Publishers

This reference provides up-to-date information on research in many different disciplines that give an overall insight into the environmental history of Africa.

The proceedings of the 32nd US Symposium on Rock Mechanics, held at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, July 1991, include three papers related to a special session on lunar rock mechanics.

A translation of the 1989 Russian original presenting the results of multi-yearly investigations of electromagnetic phenomena associated with seismotectonic processes in the earth's crust of Uzbekistan.

Proceedings of the 11th plenary scientific session of the International Bureau of Strata Mechanics/World Mining Congress. The 21 selected papers include nine dealing with mine pillars behaviour and design.

Proceedings of the 31st Symposium on Rock Mechanics, held at Golden, Colorado, June 1990. The papers cover such areas as experimental studies; conceptual, analytical, and numerical modelling and design and construction methods.

The Bangkok Symposium held in November 1988 presented papers dealing with Buddhist temples in Thailand, Mohenjodaro in Pakistan, ancient tombs in the Valley of Kings in Egypt, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Addresses all aspects of pavement construction from choice of material to in-situ behaviours of finished structures, enabling practitioners and policy makers to use and source materials effectively.

This text presents the key findings of the International Symposium held in Delft in 2003, which explored this stunning natural process.

This volume contains 30 papers delivered to the International Workshop on Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage 2003, plus six new additions. They are divided into five sections covering types of pollutants, effects on materials and monuments, and related heritage policies.

An analysis of radical changes across institutions such as the privatisation of British Rail, and the role of governments in such shifts. Challenges current thinking, highlighting the limitations and difficulties inherent in system change.

A dissertation on the effects of salinity on nitrifcation in municipal wastewater, considering many aspects of the process and its attendant problems, together with useful and research results from lab- and plant-based research.

Devoted entirely to tropical areas, this work on soil engineering and mechanics looks at the origin, testing and properties of tropical residual soil types.

This work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed and state-of-the-art reflecting papers that were presented at the First Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems.

This dissertation presented at Wageningen University in the Netherlands investigates the use of an integrated upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor-duckweed ponds system to treat domestic wastewater and recycle nutrients and water in tilapia aquaculture. As the culmination of a one-year exp

This dissertation, submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Academic Board of Wageningen University and the Academic Board of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, demonstrates the applicability of surge flow irrigation for water saving under the short field conditions that prevail in