Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxix

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2. Living with Sea Level Change and Dynamic Landscapes: An Archaeological Perspective

   • Geoffrey N. Bailey, Geoffrey C. P. King

   Pages 1-26

3. History of Ischia Harbour (Southern Italy)

   • Stefano Carlino, Elena Cubellis, Ilia Delizia, Giuseppe Luongo

   Pages 27-57

4. “And an Island Never Cries”: Cultural and Societal Perspectives on the Mega Development of Islands in the United Arab Emirates

   • Pernilla Ouis

   Pages 59-75

5. The Dramatic Drop of the Dead Sea: Background, Rates, Impacts and Solutions

   • Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh, Abdulkader M. Abed, Stephan Kempe

   Pages 77-105

6. The Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal: Its Origin and the Challenges it Faces

   • Damien Closson, Herbert Hansen, François Halgand, Nada Milisavljevic, Frédéric Hallot, Marc Acheroy

   Pages 107-124

7. Red Sea Heliohydropower: Bab-al-Mandab Sill Macro-Project

   • Roelof D. Schuiling, Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart, Jihan Seoud, Jaap C. Hanekamp

   Pages 125-147

8. The Hormuz Strait Dam Macroproject

   • Roelof Schuiling, Viorel Badescu, Richard Cathcart, Piet van Overveld

   Pages 149-165

9. Construction Techniques for Deep-water Immersed Tunnel Using Real-time Sea Strait Current Forecast

   • Yukinobu Oda, Kazunori Ito, Takahide Honda, Solomon Yim

   Pages 167-198

10. Ecological Energy Conversion of Oceanic and Afferent River Water Currents

    • Mircea Dimitrie Cazacu, Sergiu Nicolaie

    Pages 199-212

11. Wave Energy Assessments and Modeling of Wave–Current Interactions in the Black Sea

    • Eugen Rusu

    Pages 213-259

12. The Sea Highway Macro-Project: A Multiple-Advantage Infrastructural Installation for Necessary Twenty-first Century Stabilization of Romanian Coastline Erosion

    • Mircea Dimitrie Cazacu, Dan Aurel Machita

    Pages 261-274

13. The Black Sea: A Georeactor to Immobilize Metal Wastes

    • R. D. Schuiling

    Pages 275-280

14. Advantageous Techno-Naturalization of the Seawater in the Black Sea

    • Mircea Dimitrie Cazacu, Raducu Viorel Iancu

    Pages 281-288

15. Proto-Type of Replicable Industrial Black Sea H2S Gas Extraction Plant

    • Salah A. Naman, I. Engin Ture, T. Nejat Veziroglu

    Pages 289-301

16. Oxygenation of Large Volumes of Natural Waters by Geo-Engineering: with Particular Reference to a Pilot Experiment in Byfjorden

    • Anders Stigebrandt, Bengt Liljebladh

    Pages 303-315

17. Aral Sea Partial Refill with Imported Caspian Sea Water

    • Richard B. Cathcart, Viorel Badescu

    Pages 317-349

18. Aral Sea Rehabilitation with Irtysh Imports

    • Roelof D. Schuiling, Viorel Badescu

    Pages 351-363

19. Urumia Lake: Hydro-Ecological Stabilization and Permanence

    • Hossein Golabian

    Pages 365-397

20. Sediment Transport by Wind and Water: The Pioneering Work of Ralph Bagnold

    • Michael Welland

    Pages 399-429

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.

• Drylands
• Geo-engineering
• Heliohydropower
• In situ Resource Utilization
• Macro-engineering
• marine and freshwater sciences

• Candida Oancea Inst., Polytechnic University Bucuresti, Bucuresti, Romania

  Viorel Badescu

• Geographos, Burbank, USA

  Richard B. Cathcart

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