Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources

Joaquin Andreu, Giuseppe Rossi, Federico Vagliasindi, Alicia Vela - Collection Water Science, Technology, and Engineering

252 pages, parution le 24/11/2005

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Droughts and their management are a serious challenge to water resource professionals. While droughts predominate in warm, arid regions, their frequency and severity in more temperate regions with more abundant rainfall have been on the rise. Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources provides an essential collection of planning and management tools for minimizing the negative impacts of droughts. Comprehensive and up-to-date, it covers water conservation and reuse, conjunctive use and use of marginal resources, desalination, deep groundwater extraction, optimization modeling, and decision support systems.

With contributions from a prestigious international panel, the book presents best management practices that maximize efficiency, reliability, and economy while minimizing the potential for adverse effects to the environment and human health. Providing practical methodologies, the chapters discuss how conjunctive water use can increase water availability in the developing world and what types of conjunctive use schemes are the most promising. The book examines the feasibility of a drought watch alert system and the legal and administrative framework required. It also, explores the application of the Optimization Models and the Decision Support Systems to the study of different water management alternatives under drought conditions. Drought Management and Planning for Water Resources delineates how to reduce drought effects through pro-active vision, good management, and conjunctive use of water sources.

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Water management in Mediterranean regions prone to drought: The Jiicar Basin experience
Criteria for marginal water treatment and reuse under drought conditions
Strategies for the conjunctive use of surface and groundwater
Optimization model for the conjunctive use of conventional and marginal waters
Decision support systems for drought management
Methodology for the analysis of drought mitigation measures in water resource systems
Droughts and the European water framework directive: Implications on Spanish river basin districts
Water reuse and desalination at Comunitat-Valenciana region, Spain
Role of decision support system and multicriteria methods for the assessment of drought mitigation measures
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Taylor and Francis Books
Auteur(s)	Joaquin Andreu, Giuseppe Rossi, Federico Vagliasindi, Alicia Vela
Collection	Water Science, Technology, and Engineering
Parution	24/11/2005
Nb. de pages	252
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	520g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781566706728
ISBN13	978-1-56670-672-8