Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries: Terms and Concepts Volume 3

Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries: Terms and Concepts covers the engineering and natural and social sciences aspects related to coastal power plants, their operation and management. This includes the problems inherent in extracting large volumes of cooling waters, and the organisms in that water. This volume gives the background to these features, problems and solutions. The information is relevant to power plants in all global situations and so allows practitioners to assess the environmental consequences of the power plants and the means of addressing those challenges. It indicates, defines and illustrates the terms and concepts used worldwide. This is important as engineers and scientists often have an imperfect understanding of the requirements of the other, and similar (in some cases identical) terms may have very different meanings.

Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries: Terms and Concepts provides a simple and accessible guide to the terminology used and the concepts behind them. Individual entries are complete in themselves but cross referenced to other entries where additional information may be found. This provides quick and easy access to the required information.