Geography, Earth Science and Environment: Research Highlights Vol. 2

This book covers key areas of geography, earth science and environment research. The contributions by the authors include irrigated landscape ecosystems, transect walks, millennium ecosystem assessment, sustainable ecosystem, Sisili-Kulpawn irrigation, rain-fed landscape, structural deformation patterns, strike-slip fault system, Wadi Shueib structure, Amman-Halabat structure, dead sea transform fault, digital elevation models, regional tectonic setting, horsetail geometry, pharmaceutical micropollutants, drinking water treatment plants, gas and liquid chromatography, polar organic chemical integrative sampler, hydrophilic-lipophilic balance, advanced oxidation processes, granular activated carbon, anthropogenic metal analysis, environmental quality investigation, atomic absorption spectrometer, heavy metal pollution index, ecological risk index, human health risk assessment, nitrate-contaminated groundwater, methemoglobinemia, total suspended solids, cost of cultivation scheme, largest impact crater, arc-shaped Langshan, digital aerial images, normalized difference vegetation index, principal component analysis, maximum likelihood classifier, simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation, response surface methodology, design of experiment approach.  This book contains various materials suitable for students, researchers, and academicians in the fields of geography, earth science and environment research.