Overview
Introduces students of civil engineering and allied disciplines to ways of identifying and evaluating multiple-purpose, multi-objective water quantity and quality planning and management issues
Organizes material for use in single-semester or full-year courses
Maximizes understanding with case studies and exercises based on critical problems from the field
Covers basin-wide and urban water challenges incorporating risk, uncertainty, and qualitative modeling
Illustrates core concepts with rich media supplementary material provided online
Includes instructors’ solutions manual
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This revised, updated textbook presents a systems approach to the planning, management, and operation of water resources infrastructure in the environment. Previously published in 2005 by UNESCO and Deltares (Delft Hydraulics at the time), this new edition, written again with contributions from Jery R. Stedinger, Jozef P. M. Dijkman, and Monique T. Villars, is aimed equally at students and professionals. It introduces readers to the concept of viewing issues involving water resources as a system of multiple interacting components and scales. It offers guidelines for initiating and carrying out water resource system planning and management projects.
It introduces alternative optimization, simulation, and statistical methods useful for project identification, design, siting, operation and evaluation and for studying post-planning issues. The authors cover both basin-wide and urban water issues and present ways of identifying and evaluating alternatives for addressing multiple-purpose and multi-objective water quantity and quality management challenges. Reinforced with cases studies, exercises, and media supplements throughout, the text is ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in water resource planning and management as well as for practicing planners and engineers in the field.
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Keywords
- Water Resource Systems Modeling
- Open Access Textbook
- River Basin Modeling
- Urban Water Systems
- Water Quality Modeling and Prediction
- Water Resources Planning
- Water Optimization Models and Methods
- Open Access Book
- UNESCO-IHE
- Deltares
- water industry and water technology
- water quality and water pollution
- climate change
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Book Title: Water Resource Systems Planning and Management
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to Methods, Models, and Applications
Authors: Daniel P. Loucks, Eelco van Beek
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44234-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
License: CC BY-NC
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44232-7Published: 10 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83017-9Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44234-1Published: 02 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 624
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 356 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Engineering, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Hydrology/Water Resources, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Climate Change