Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments: Arid Lowlands and Water Bodies Rehabilitation (Environmental Science and Engineering)

The subjects refer to histories of ancient and modern use of seacoasts; possible macro-projects capable of massive changes in the coastlines of the Dead Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf caused by canal and massively scaled hydropower dam installations; relevant macro-projects for the Black Sea and Baltic Sea; possibilities of refreshment of the Aral Sea and Iran’s Lake Uremia with seawater or river freshwater importation macro-projects; potential rehabilitation of some vital arid zone regions now dominated by moving or movable surface granular materials using unique and unusual macro-projects; seawater flooding of land regions situated below present-day global sea-level; harnessing energy and obtaining freshwater from the world’s salt-laden ocean by modern industrial means; various macro-projects designed specifically for the protection (reduction of vulnerability) of particular Earth geographical regions. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxix Living with Sea Level Change and Dynamic Landscapes: An Archaeological Perspective....Pages 1-26 History of Ischia Harbour (Southern Italy)....Pages 27-57 “And an Island Never Cries”: Cultural and Societal Perspectives on the Mega Development of Islands in the United Arab Emirates....Pages 59-75 The Dramatic Drop of the Dead Sea: Background, Rates, Impacts and Solutions....Pages 77-105 The Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal: Its Origin and the Challenges it Faces....Pages 107-124 Red Sea Heliohydropower: Bab-al-Mandab Sill Macro-Project....Pages 125-147 The Hormuz Strait Dam Macroproject....Pages 149-165 Construction Techniques for Deep-water Immersed Tunnel Using Real-time Sea Strait Current Forecast....Pages 167-198 Ecological Energy Conversion of Oceanic and Afferent River Water Currents....Pages 199-212 Wave Energy Assessments and Modeling of Wave–Current Interactions in the Black Sea....Pages 213-259 The Sea Highway Macro-Project: A Multiple-Advantage Infrastructural Installation for Necessary Twenty-first Century Stabilization of Romanian Coastline Erosion....Pages 261-274 The Black Sea: A Georeactor to Immobilize Metal Wastes....Pages 275-280 Advantageous Techno-Naturalization of the Seawater in the Black Sea....Pages 281-288 Proto-Type of Replicable Industrial Black Sea H 2 S Gas Extraction Plant....Pages 289-301 Oxygenation of Large Volumes of Natural Waters by Geo-Engineering: with Particular Reference to a Pilot Experiment in Byfjorden....Pages 303-315 Aral Sea Partial Refill with Imported Caspian Sea Water....Pages 317-349 Aral Sea Rehabilitation with Irtysh Imports....Pages 351-363 Urumia Lake: Hydro-Ecological Stabilization and Permanence....Pages 365-397 Sediment Transport by Wind and Water: The Pioneering Work of Ralph Bagnold....Pages 399-429 Dune: Arenaceous Anti-Desertification Architecture....Pages 431-463 Dune Sand Fixation: Mauritania Seawater Pipeline Macroproject....Pages 465-488 Treeing the CATS: Artificial Gulf Formation by the Chotts Algeria–Tunisia Scheme....Pages 489-517 Mapping of the Qattara Depression, Egypt, using SRTM Elevation Data for Possible Hydropower and Climate Change Macro-Projects....Pages 519-531 Assessing the Climate Response to Major Surface Inundation: Lake Eyre, Australia....Pages 533-552 Macro-Engineering Lake Eyre with Imported Seawater....Pages 553-581 Can Geoengineering Sustain Critical Ocean Currents?....Pages 583-593 Calling upon Neptune: Ocean Energies as “Renewables”....Pages 595-634 Coastal Ecosystem Management Using a Wave Energy-driven Seawater Pump: Some Mega-engineering and Environmental Aspects....Pages 635-655 Wave Powered Desalination....Pages 657-674 A Novel Macro-Engineering Approach to Seawater Desalination....Pages 675-689 The Ike Dike: A Coastal Barrier Protecting the Houston/Galveston Region from Hurricane Storm Surge....Pages 691-716 Kalpasar: Potential Coastal Impacts for India of a Mega-Engineering Project “Fulfilling All Wishes”....Pages 717-740 The Bering Strait Seawater Deflector (BSSD): Arctic Tundra Preservation Using an Immersed, Scalable and Removable Fiberglass Curtain....Pages 741-777 Back Matter....Pages 779-790