Possible engineering solutions and a case study
De Meyer, C.P. (1990). Possible engineering solutions and a case study, in: Paepe, R. et al. Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Geohydrological Management of Sea Level and Mitigation of Drought, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain), March 1-7, 1989. NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 325: pp. 637-640. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_40 In: Paepe, R. et al. (Ed.) (1990). Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Geohydrological Management of Sea Level and Mitigation of Drought, Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (Spain), March 1-7, 1989. Digitized reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990. NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, 325. Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht. ISBN 978-94-009-0701-0. xix, 718 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0, more In: NATO ASI Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences. D. Reidel: Dordrecht; Boston; Lancaster. ISSN 0258-2023, more |
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| Abstract | Throughout the ages the seashore worldwide has exerted a continuous attraction on settlers. Why? Originally because of food supplies and transportation possibilities, and more recently because of its high potential for socio-economic developments.As the burden on coastal settlements gets heavier due to population concentration and competition for space and the coast is relentlessly battered as a consequence of the steady sea level rise, all possible solutions should be taken into account to prevent disasters.Theoretically, sea level rise could be controlled by reducing the amount of water returning from the continent to the ocean.Construction of large reservoirs, artificially achieved using dams or natural depressions, leads to a conceivable redistribution in time and location of the water on the continents.Indeed, many projects of global scale have been considered! Several such “engineers’ dreams” are not science fiction. One of them is a water-transfer scheme from the Zaire River Basin to Lake Chad. |
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