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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology; 2007; v. 40; issue.2; p. 193-194;
DOI: 10.1144/1470-8236/07-102
© 2007 Geological Society of London

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Dictionary of Water Engineering by K. Nelson, ITDG Publishing, 2005, £35, hardback, 384pp. ISBN 1-85339-490-4

Eugene Gallagher

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The original edition of this dictionary was published in 1973 by Butterworths as the Dictionary of Water and Water Engineering. This 2005 edition is published by Intermediate Technology Development Group (ITDG), now ‘Practical Action’, which was founded in 1966 to promote EF Schumacher's ideas of small is beautiful, and indeed feasible. In this context, their support for Ken Nelson's Dictionary of Water Engineering is evident in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]