Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Greenhouse Effect, Stratospheric Ozone, Marine Productivity, and Global Hydrology: Feedbacks in the Global Climate System....Pages 3-20
Effects of West African Air Humidity on Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature....Pages 21-40
Determining Natural and Manmade Climate Change: Historical Review and Implications for the 1900’s and Beyond....Pages 41-74
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Climatic Response to Greenhouse and Feedback Effect....Pages 75-84
Ice Sheets and Sea Level Change as a Response to Climatic Change at the Astronomical Time Scale....Pages 85-107
Present, Past and Future Precipitation: Can We Trust the Models?....Pages 109-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Sea Level....Pages 117-143
Non-Eustatic Sea Level Changes from Mediterranean Tide Gages....Pages 145-152
Present and Near-Future Sea-Level Changes: An Assessment....Pages 153-163
Influence of Global Climatic Processes on the Hydrosphere Regime....Pages 165-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Water Deficiency Versus Water Excess: Global Management Potential....Pages 185-197
Extraterrestrial Impacts, Volcanoes, Climate and Sea Level....Pages 199-216
Recent Developments in Research on the Loess in China....Pages 217-224
Desertification or Desert Reclamation? Change in Climate or in Human Behaviour?....Pages 225-240
Natural Protection and Voluntary Extension of the Tropical African Forest Cover....Pages 241-252
River and Soils Cyclicities Interfering with Sea Level Changes....Pages 253-280
Natural Aridification or Man-Made Desertification? A Question for the Future....Pages 281-285
Climatic Oscillations as Registered through the Ruzizi Plain Deposits (North Lake Tanganyika) Zaire — Burundi — Rwanda....Pages 287-299
Global Change: Population, Land-Use and Vegetation in the Mediterranean Basin by the Mid-21st Century....Pages 301-367
An Indication of an Abrupt Climatic Change as Seen from the Rainfall Data of a Mauritanian Station....Pages 369-381
Front Matter....Pages 383-383
Practical Problems for Coastal Submergence in the Light of Secular Trends....Pages 385-393
Risk Assessment and Causes of Subsidence and Inundation along the Texas Gulf Coast....Pages 395-414
Vulnerability of Coastal Lowlands. A Case Study of Land Subsidence in Shanghai, P.R. China....Pages 415-426
The Impact of Neotectonics with Regard to Canals, Pipelines, Dams, Open Reservoirs, etc. in Active Areas: The Case of the Hellenic Arc....Pages 427-438
Evolution of Barrier Island-Lagoon Systems from 200 KA Ago to the Present in the Littoral Zone of Alicante (Spain). Impact of a Probable Sea Level Rise....Pages 439-446
Australia’s Hydrological Storage and Rising Sea Level Hazard....Pages 447-455
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
Possible Effects of Man on the Carbon Cycle in the Past and in the Future....Pages 459-462
The Relationship of Inqua to the Global Change Program and Other International Groups....Pages 463-481
Front Matter....Pages 483-483
Estimation of Natural and Man-Induced Groundwater Recharge....Pages 485-493
Development and Management of Fossil Groundwater Resources for Purposes of Drought Mitigation....Pages 495-512
Small Dams and Subsurface Dams in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas: The Example of Saharan and Sahelian Africa....Pages 513-522
Study of the Chad Basin Water Supply by Catchment Carried Out in the Congo-Zaire Basin....Pages 523-539
Groundwater Recharge and Storage By Damming a Small Ephemeral Stream....Pages 541-551
Sea Level Rise and Artificial Groundwater Recharge. A Study on the Feasibility of Geohydrologic Management....Pages 553-564
Climatic Changes in the Levant and the Possibility of their Mitigation....Pages 565-574
The Legacy of Sahelian Management: 1965–1988....Pages 575-592
Saline Groundwater in the Canary Islands (Spain) Resulting from Aridity....Pages 593-618
Front Matter....Pages 619-619
Geological Resources for Construction with Low Energy and Low Temperature Input....Pages 621-624
Site-Investigation in Semi-Arid and Arid Regions for Reconnaissance and Engineering-Geological Purposes....Pages 625-635
Possible Engineering Solutions and a Case Study....Pages 637-640
Front Matter....Pages 641-641
Conclusions and Recommendations Reports of Sessions and Panel Discussions....Pages 643-689
Meeting Report....Pages 691-706
Back Matter....Pages 707-718