Macro-engineering seawater in unique environments : arid lowlands and water bodies rehabilitation

Living with Sea Level Change and Dynamic Landscapes: An Archaeological Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Geoffrey N. Bailey and Geoffrey C. P. King History of Ischia Harbour (Southern Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Stefano Carlino, Elena Cubellis, Ilia Delizia and Giuseppe Luongo ‘‘And an Island Never Cries’’: Cultural and Societal Perspectives on the Mega Development of Islands in the United Arab Emirates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Pernilla Ouis The Dramatic Drop of the Dead Sea: Background, Rates, Impacts and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Shahrazad Abu Ghazleh, Abdulkader M. Abed and Stephan Kempe The Red Sea–Dead Sea Canal: Its Origin and the Challenges it Faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Damien Closson, Herbert Hansen, François Halgand, Nada Milisavljevic, Frédéric Hallot and Marc Acheroy Red Sea Heliohydropower: Bab-al-Mandab Sill Macro-Project . . . . . . 125 Roelof D. Schuiling, Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart, Jihan Seoud and Jaap C. Hanekamp The Hormuz Strait Dam Macroproject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Roelof Schuiling, Viorel Badescu, Richard Cathcart and Piet van Overveld Construction Techniques for Deep-Water Immersed Tunnel Using Real-Time Sea Strait Current Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Yukinobu Oda, Kazunori Ito, Takahide Honda and Solomon YimEcological Energy Conversion of Oceanic and Afferent River Water Currents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Mircea Dimitrie Cazacu and Sergiu Nicolaie Wave Energy Assessments and Modeling of Wave–Current Interactions in the Black Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Eugen Rusu The Sea Highway Macro-Project: A Multiple-Advantage Infrastructural Installation for Necessary Twenty-First Century Stabilization of Romanian Coastline Erosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 Mircea Dimitrie Cazacu and Dan Aurel Machita The Black Sea: A Georeactor to Immobilize Metal Wastes . . . . . . . . . 275 R. D. Schuiling Advantageous Techno-Naturalization of the Seawater in the Black Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Mircea Dimitrie Cazacu and Raducu Viorel Iancu Proto-Type of Replicable Industrial Black Sea H2S Gas Extraction Plant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Salah A. Naman, I. Engin Ture and T. Nejat Veziroglu Oxygenation of Large Volumes of Natural Waters by Geo-Engineering: with Particular Reference to a Pilot Experiment in Byfjorden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Anders Stigebrandt and Bengt Liljebladh Aral Sea Partial Refill with Imported Caspian Sea Water. . . . . . . . . . 317 Richard B. Cathcart and Viorel Badescu Aral Sea Rehabilitation with Irtysh Imports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Roelof D. Schuiling and Viorel Badescu Urumia Lake: Hydro-Ecological Stabilization and Permanence. . . . . . 365 Hossein Golabian Sediment Transport by Wind and Water: The Pioneering Work of Ralph Bagnold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399 Michael Welland Dune: Arenaceous Anti-Desertification Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431 Magnus LarssonDune Sand Fixation: Mauritania Seawater Pipeline Macroproject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465 Viorel Badescu and Richard B. Cathcart Treeing the CATS: Artificial Gulf Formation by the Chotts Algeria-Tunisia Scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489 Nicola M. Pugno, Richard B. Cathcart and Joseph J. Friedlander Mapping of the Qattara Depression, Egypt, Using SRTM Elevation Data for Possible Hydropower and Climate Change Macro-Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519 Ragab A. Hafiez Assessing the Climate Response to Major Surface Inundation: Lake Eyre, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 533 Pandora Hope, Andrew B. Watkins and Robert L. Backway Macro-Engineering Lake Eyre with Imported Seawater . . . . . . . . . . . 553 Viorel Badescu, Richard B. Cathcart, Marius Paulescu, Paul Gravila and Alexander A. Bolonkin Can Geoengineering Sustain Critical Ocean Currents? . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 Peter C. Flynn and Jason Songjian Zhou Calling Upon Neptune: Ocean Energies as ‘‘Renewables’’ . . . . . . . . . 595 Roger H. Charlier Coastal Ecosystem Management Using a Wave Energy-driven Seawater Pump: Some Mega-engineering and Environmental Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 635 S. P. R. Czitrom, I. Penié and G. de la Lanza Wave Powered Desalination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 657 Stephen H. Salter, Joao M. B. P. Cruz, Jorge A. A. Lucas and Remy C. R. Pascal A Novel Macro-Engineering Approach to Seawater Desalination . . . . 675 Alexander A. Bolonkin, Shmuel Neumann and Joseph J. Friedlander The Ike Dike: A Coastal Barrier Protecting the Houston/Galveston Region from Hurricane Storm Surge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 691 William J. Merrell, Lyssa Graham Reynolds, Andres Cardenas, Joshua R. Gunn and Amie J. HuftonKalpasar: Potential Coastal Impacts for India of a Mega-Engineering Project ‘‘Fulfilling All Wishes’’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 717 D. Venkata Subba Rao The Bering Strait Seawater Deflector (BSSD): Arctic Tundra Preservation Using an Immersed, Scalable and Removable Fiberglass Curtain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741 Richard B. Cathcart, Alexander A. Bolonkin and Radu D. Rugescu