Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure - Solutions from Modern Atmospheric Science

Infrastructure that manages our water resources (such as, dams and reservoirs, irrigation systems, channels, navigation waterways, water and wastewater treatment facilities, storm drainage systems, urban water distribution and sanitation systems), are critical to all sectors of an economy. Realizing the importance of water infrastructures, efforts have already begun on understanding the sustainability and resilience of such systems under changing conditions expected in the future. 
The goal of this collected work is to raise awareness among civil engineers of the various implications of landscape change and non-climate drivers on the resilience of water management infrastructure. It identifies the knowledge gaps and then provides effective and complementary approaches to assimilate knowledge discovery on local (mesoscale)-to-regional landscape drivers to improve practices on design, operations and preservation of large water infrastructure systems.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Resilience Of Large Water Management Infrastructure.- Chapter 2. Survey Of Water Managers For 21 st Century Challenges.- Chapter 3. Current Approaches For Resilience Assessment.- Chapter 4. Application Of Numerical Atmospheric Models.- Chapter 5. Infrastructure-Relevant Storms Of The Last Century.- Chapter 6. Sensitivity Of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP).- Chapter 7. A Recommended Paradigm Shift In The Approach To Risks To Large Water Infrastructure In The Coming Decades.- Chapter 8. Safety Design of Water Infrastructures In A Modern Era.

Summary

Provides a comprehensive synopsis of superior resilience assessment of water infrastructures
Introduces to practitioners state-of-the-art methods to assimilate weather and climate impacts for improved infrastructure design and maintenance
Brings the latest advancements on atmospheric and climate science to the traditional infrastructure engineering community

Product details

• Assisted by: Faisa Hossain (Editor), Faisal Hossain (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030264314
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3026431-4
• No. of pages: 124
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 269 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 352 g
• Illustrations: XV, 124 p. 42 illus., 37 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences; Nachhaltigkeit, B, Sustainability, Climate Change, Water, Sustainable Development, Civil Engineering, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Pollution, Earth Sciences, Hydrology, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Hydrology/Water Resources, Energy industries & utilities, Earth System Sciences, Water pollution, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Atmospheric Sciences