River Basin Management
Published on 3. September 2001
Book
Hardback
408 pages
978-1-85312-876-9 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years there has been growing worldwide concern about a wide range of issues relating to the management of riverine basins. Significant advances have now been made in the development and application of hydroinformatics software tools, integrated within management information systems, to ensure that efficient and cost-effective environmental management and engineering decisions are made. Presenting contributions from the First International Conference on River Basin Management, this book marks the increasing academic and professional interest being shown in this field. Topics highlighted include Total Catchment Modelling and Management; Riverine Hydraulics and Hydrology; Flood Mapping and Prediction; Wetland Restoration and Management; Water Quality and Environmental Modelling; Ecological and Bacteriological Perspectives; Hydrological Modelling, GIS and Remote Sensing; Hydroinformatics Technologies; and Engineering Solutions and Case Studies. Specific projects from a wide range of areas including Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Asia, the Middle East and Far East are also reviewed.The papers featured will be of interest to many specialists including environmental managers, consulting engineers and planners, and staff in regulatory authorities, government departments and water companies, as well as the scientific and academic communities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85312-876-9 (9781853128769)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Section 1 Total catchment modelling and management: Conceptual modelling for improving quality of surface water abstraction in Jakarta, Indonesia; Optimisation of local and regional watershed management in an Eastern-German-Polish-Czech river catchment basin; Classification of river networks. Section 2 Riverine hydraulics and hydrology: Using ISIS Sediment for simulating graded sediment behaviour in rivers; Three-dimensional simulation of river flood flows; Changes in the hydrologic periodicity of the Mississippi River, USA; River dynamics and restoration: A comprehensive management strategy; Changes in flow in the upper North Canadian River basin of western Oklahoma, pre-development to 2000; A one-dimensional coupled hydrodynamic and salinity model of the Clyde Estuary. Section 3 Flood mapping and prediction: Use of an integrated one dimensional-two dimensional hydraulic modelling approach for flood hazard and risk mapping; Effects of flood plain management on river hydraulics - a case study; Flood forecasting in Andhra Pradesh, India; Uncertainties in Dam Failure Modelling with the US NSW BREACH Model; Design and development of an internet-based flood forecasting system using real-time rainfall, radar and river flow data; Open architecture in flood forecasting systems; Appropriate spatial resolution in flood damage modelling. Section 4 Wetland restoration and management: Protection of vulnerable wetlands located in the south-east part of Sicily; a plan to restore the original habitat; River and environmental processes in the wetland restoration of the Morava River; Channelization effects on floodplain functions in western Tennessee. Section 5 Water quality and environmental modelling: The effect of effluents from fish hatcheries on slightly disturbed rivers - a case study; Modelling hydro-environmental processes in riverine systems; Description of nutrient s seasonal behaviour in Ebro river plume; Modeling water quality in time and space: case study the Litani River, Lebanon. Section 6 Ecological and bacteriological perspectives: Implementation of a catchment-based national microbial water quality monitoring programme in prioritised high health risk areas; Guidelines for spatial distribution of ecotopes, based on ecological networks and geomorphological boundary conditions. Section 7 Hydrological modelling, GIS and remote sensing: Integrated hydrologic and landslide risk management in the Romagna River Basins using cartographic predictive modelling; Quantitative approach for the determination of hydrological landscapes; Taking hydro-spatial analysis to another dimension using STEM, a 4D GIS; Remote sensing of fluvial landforms in the Lar Basin, Iran; Geographic Information Systems, Expert Systems and Neural Networks: Disaster planning, mitigation and recovery. (part contents)