Sustainable Water Resources Management

Proceedings of SWARM 2020
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-981-16-7534-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 235 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 547 g

Reihe: Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology

This book brings high-quality selected research articles from the international conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management (SWARM 2020), held at Assam Engineering College, Guwahati, Assam, India, during 19–21 June 2020. The book focuses on water management and planning, urban water management, climate change and global warming, management of groundwater and aquifer remediation, water conservation, water quality, pollution control, management of trans-boundary rivers, advanced hydrological modelling and hydro-disaster risk management of sustainable water management.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhattacharjya, Rajib Kumar

Talukdar, Bipul

Katsifarakis, Konstantinos L.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Bauingenieurwesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Gesundheitspädagogik, Umweltpädagogik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Climate-Change and its Impact on Surface Runoff Characteristics of an Urban Catchment.- Impact of Climate Change on Daily Maximum Temperature of the Brahmaputra River Basin.- Future Rainfall Trend Analysis over Puthimari River Basin: A comparative Study using Different CMIP5 Models.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. He received his Bachelor's and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Gauhati University, India in the year 1993 and 1995 respectively and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in the year 2004. His current research interests include groundwater management and pollution control, management of saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers, classical and non-classical optimization methods, and artificial neural networks. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience and has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications in various reputed international journals and conference proceedings. He has jointly edited three books “Urban Hydrology, Watershed Management, and Socio-Economic Aspects”, “Urban Ecology, Water Quality and Climate Change”, and “Nature-Inspired Methods for Metaheuristics Optimization: Algorithms and Applications in Science and Engineering”, published by Springer. As a faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, he has taught courses on subsurface hydrology, surface water hydrology, hydraulics, water resources planning and management, optimization methods, etc. He has also been a visiting professor at other institutes, including the Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and Ecole Centrale Nantes, France.

Prof. Bipul Talukdar is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Assam Engineering College, Guwahati. He received his Bachelor's and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Dibrugarh University and Gauhati University, India in the year 1988 and 1990 respectively and Ph.D. in Hydrology from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in the year 2000. He has been in teaching and research for the last 28 years in the areas of water resources systems, flood and erosion management of large river systems, watershed management, remote sensing and GIS, restoration and management of lakes and rivers and has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications in journals and conference proceedings. He has guided 35 Masters and 4 research students till now and also worked as a guest editor for the special publication Sustainable Development - A Civil Engineering Perspective by Springer Nature. He has been with various technical committees of government related to water resources management and was an academic visitor to the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Konstantinos L. Katsifarakis is a professor of the Civil Engineering Department in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering, a Bachelor in Geology, an M.S. Degree in Engineering Mechanics and a Doctoral Degree in Civil Engineering. His research interests include groundwater flows and contamination control, water resources management, optimization techniques, low enthalpy geothermal energy, environmental impact mitigation, solid waste management, education of engineers and history of hydrology. He has authored more than 100 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings, and he has served as editor of 2 books and 7 proceedings of international conferences. He has taught many undergraduate and graduate courses and has supervised more than 230 undergraduate and graduate Diploma Theses and 8 Ph.D. Theses. He has served Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as Coordinator of the Environment Council, Director of a Graduate Studies Program and member of the University Board. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.