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The principal aim of this book is to provide a wide range of information and a useful reference for researchers interested to investigate heavy mineral assemblages in different geological settings and for a variety of purposes. The methodological developments achieved in recent years for the identification of heavy minerals in a wide grain-size range are illustrated. All factors that affect heavy mineral concentration and relative proportions, including hydraulic sorting, mechanical abrasion, chemical weathering, and post-depositional dissolution, and all factors able to introduce analytical, environmental, or diagenetic bias are thoroughly addressed. A proper integration of multiple techniques including bulk sediment, multi-mineral, and single-mineral methods are discussed by renowned authors in their invited contributions.

Research & information: general --- heavy minerals --- correlation --- North Sea --- Jurassic --- Triassic --- Carboniferous --- Devonian --- relative and absolute abundances --- sampling strategy --- size-window for analysis --- heavy mineral point-counting --- provenance and plate-tectonic setting --- chemical weathering --- hydraulic sorting --- recycling --- diagenesis --- sediment --- provenance --- statistics --- zircon --- point counting --- petrography --- mineral grains composition --- surface textures --- sources --- WNW Portuguese Continental Margin --- Raman spectroscopy --- sedimentary provenance --- automatization --- heavy mineral --- Pliocene --- the Changjiang Delta --- amphibole --- surface texture --- garnet --- epidote --- pyroxene --- provenance tracers --- varietal studies --- mineral chemistry --- semi-automated Raman counting --- Ladakh-Kohistan arcs --- Himalaya --- Nanga Parbat --- Karakorum --- Indus river --- amphiboles --- tremolite --- actinolite --- provenance analysis --- tectonic versus climatic control --- early-middle Pleistocene transition --- Yellow River terraces --- Lanzhou (northern China) --- sieving of fine silt --- fallacy of laser granulometry --- benthic foraminifera --- Ganga–Brahmaputra river system --- Bay of Bengal --- Himalayan orogen --- bulk-sediment petrography --- bulk-sediment geochemistry --- selective entrainment --- suspension sorting --- chemical indices of weathering --- sediment budgets --- Brahmaputra River --- Ganga River --- handbook for laboratory procedures --- nontoxic heavy liquids --- wet sieving of silt --- zircon separation --- heavy-mineral mounts --- n/a --- Ganga-Brahmaputra river system

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China was the world's leading superpower for almost two millennia, falling behind only in the last two centuries and now rising to dominance again. What factors led to imperial China's decline? This book offers a systematic look at the Chinese state from the seventh century through to the twentieth.

Social networks --- China --- History. --- Politics and government --- History --- Agriculture (Chinese mythology). --- An Lushan Rebellion. --- An Lushan. --- Ancestral home (Chinese). --- Aristocracy. --- Beijing. --- British Overseas Territories. --- Bureaucrat. --- Cambodia. --- Capital accumulation. --- Central government. --- Chang'an. --- Chiang Kai-shek. --- China. --- Collective action. --- Communist revolution. --- Concubinage. --- Confucianism. --- Decolonization. --- Deportation. --- Dynasty. --- Economic inequality. --- Emperor of China. --- Expense. --- Fan Zhen. --- Forced migration. --- French Revolution. --- Gazetteer. --- Government of China. --- Guangxi. --- Han dynasty. --- Hong Xiuquan. --- Household. --- Hunter-gatherer. --- Imperial Government. --- Imperial State. --- Imperial examination. --- Income. --- Infrastructure. --- Institution. --- Jiajing Emperor. --- Jinggang Mountains. --- Karl Marx. --- Keynesian economics. --- Li Zicheng. --- Liao dynasty. --- Liu Zhi (historian). --- Mao Zedong. --- Max Weber. --- Measles. --- Minarchism. --- Ming dynasty. --- Monetization. --- Neo-Confucianism. --- Opium Wars. --- Opium. --- Ottoman Empire. --- Politics. --- Population decline. --- Processing (Chinese materia medica). --- Provinces of China. --- Qianlong Emperor. --- Qin (state). --- Qing Province. --- Qing dynasty. --- Rationing. --- Retirement. --- Ruler. --- Salary. --- Semarang. --- Service Tax. --- Shaanxi. --- Shandong. --- Sinophobia. --- Social group. --- Social science. --- Song dynasty. --- Southwestern United States. --- St. Louis. --- Taiping Rebellion. --- Tang dynasty. --- Tax cut. --- Tax rate. --- Tax revenue. --- Tax. --- Thomas Jefferson. --- Tigris–Euphrates river system. --- Total war. --- Trade route. --- Treaty of Nanking. --- Wang Anshi. --- Wanli Emperor. --- Warfare. --- Western United States. --- World government. --- Wuchang Uprising. --- Yongzheng Emperor. --- Yuan dynasty. --- Zhang Juzheng. --- Zheng (state). --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Politics and government. --- 1644-1912 --- History of Asia

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During the past five decades, we have witnessed a tremendous evolution in water resource system management. Three characteristics of this evolution are of particular note: First, the application of the systems approach to complex water management problems has been established as one of the most important advances in the field of water resource management. Second, the past five decades have brought a remarkable transformation of attitude in the water resource management community towards environmental concerns and action to address these concerns. Third, applying the principles of sustainability to water resource decision-making requires major changes in the objectives on which decisions are based, and an understanding of the complicated inter-relationships between existing ecological, economic, and social factors. The Special Issue includes 15 contributions that offer insights into contemporary problems, approaches, and issues related to the management of complex water resources systems. It will be presumptuous to say that these 15 contributions characterize the success or failure of the systems approach to support water resources decision-making. However, these contributions offer interesting lessons from current experiences and highlight possible future work.

History of engineering & technology --- system dynamics --- system analysis --- complex water system --- uncertainty assessment --- climate change --- regional climate models --- averaging procedures --- HEC-HMS --- Lim river --- Lim water systems --- n/a --- artificial recharge --- groundwater --- treated wastewater --- freshwater resources --- water footprint --- water management --- wine production --- winemaking sector --- Italy --- SuDS --- decision-making --- Soft Systems --- ANP --- modelling --- stakeholder --- systems analyses --- water resources --- planning --- management --- implementation --- political processes --- innovation --- impact --- multi-purpose dam --- water resources systems --- performance-based engineering --- simulation --- resilience --- disaster --- risk --- perception --- community --- Canada --- integrated urban watershed management --- group decision-support system --- risk analysis --- group consensus --- Kashafroud watershed --- water policy --- water portfolio planning --- water resources management --- systems assessment --- adaptive capacity --- coupled human–natural systems --- integrated water resources management --- sociohydrology --- modeling perspectives --- agent-based modeling --- differential equations --- uncertainty --- artificial intelligence --- machine learning --- water resource modelling --- multiobjective optimisation --- river abstraction --- reservoir operation --- stochastic dynamic programming --- fuzzy optimization --- reservoir-river system --- water quantity-quality management --- socio-hydrology --- hydro-sociology --- human-water systems --- human-nature systems --- social-ecological systems --- CHANS --- SES --- socio-hydrologic modeling --- IWRM --- hydrology --- multireservoir operations --- optimization --- multi-agent reinforcement learning --- aggregation–decomposition --- neural networks --- systems --- complexity --- coupled human-natural systems --- aggregation-decomposition

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"Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex relationship to three rivers: the Los Angeles, the Owens, and the Colorado. The remarkable urban and suburban trajectory of southern California since then cannot be fully understood without reference to the ways in which each of these three river systems came to be connected to the metropolitan future of the region. This history of growth must be understood in full consideration of all three of these rivers and the challenges and opportunities they presented to those who would come to make Los Angeles a global power. Full of primary sources and original documents, Water and Los Angeles will be of interest to both students of Los Angeles and general readers interested in the origins of the city"--Provided by publisher.

History --- History of the Americas --- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- History: specific events & topics --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- Water-supply --- Rivers --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Brooks --- Creeks --- Runs (Rivers) --- Streams --- Bodies of water --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water resources development --- Water utilities --- Los Anheles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula (Calif.) --- Tʻien-shih-chih-chʻeng (Calif.) --- Tianshizhicheng (Calif.) --- Los Andzsheles (Calif.) --- Lo-shan-chi (Calif.) --- Loshanji (Calif.) --- Angeles (Calif.) --- Ciudad de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo de Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Pueblo Los Angeles (Calif.) --- City of Los Angeles (Calif.) --- LA (Calif.) --- L.A. (Calif.) --- City of Angels (Calif.) --- لوس أنجلوس (Calif.) --- Lūs Anjilūs (Calif.) --- Los Anceles (Calif.) --- Горад Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Horad Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос-Анджэлес (Calif.) --- Los-Andz︠h︡ėles (Calif.) --- Лос Анджелис (Calif.) --- Los Andzhelis (Calif.) --- Λος Αντζελες (Calif.) --- Los Antzeles (Calif.) --- Los-Anĝeleso (Calif.) --- 로스앤젤레스 (Calif.) --- Losŭ Aenjellesŭ (Calif.) --- לוס אנג'לס (Calif.) --- Angelopolis (Calif.) --- Losandželosa (Calif.) --- Los Andželas (Calif.) --- Лос Анџелес (Calif.) --- Los Andželes (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu (Calif.) --- ロサンゼルス市 (Calif.) --- Rosanzerusu-shi (Calif.) --- Los Anjeles (Calif.) --- Лос Андьелес (Calif.) --- Los Andʹeles (Calif.) --- Los Anxheles (Calif.) --- Лос Анђелес (Calif.) --- Our Lady Queen of the Angels (Calif.) --- Los Angeles City (Calif.) --- La La Land (Calif.) --- 20th century. --- academic. --- america. --- california. --- colorado river. --- development. --- environment. --- environmentalist. --- global power. --- government. --- la. --- los angeles river. --- los angeles. --- metropolitan. --- natural history. --- owens river. --- river system. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- southern california. --- study. --- suburban. --- three rivers. --- united states. --- urban growth. --- water.