Springer Advances in Water Resources Management for Sustainable Use: 131 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, 131)

This book presents the innovative ideas and technical expertise for the sustainable solution in the field of water resources. It covers various topics on sustainable water resources management under climate change where researchers and professionals have shared their experience, innovative ideas, issues, recent trends and future directions in field of water resources engineering, science and technology. This book culminates the importance of achieving the ways towards water security and espouse targets and measures that will allow the end-user to meet this challenge in conjunction. It is a compendium of research articles pertaining to the mitigation of water crisis, surface and groundwater management, watershed management and modelling, case studies related to wetland vulnerability, water pollution, water quality, extreme climate hazards and others issues and its sustainable diminution through ingenious ideas and technologies that will incur valuable information to the stakeholders in the society. Given its scope, this book will be useful for the researchers and professionals. From the Back Cover This book presents the innovative ideas and technical expertise for the sustainable solution in the field of water resources. It covers various topics on sustainable water resources management under climate change where researchers and professionals have shared their experience, innovative ideas, issues, recent trends and future directions in field of water resources engineering, science and technology. This book culminates the importance of achieving the ways towards water security and espouse targets and measures that will allow the end-user to meet this challenge in conjunction. It is a compendium of research articles pertaining to the mitigation of water crisis, surface and groundwater management, watershed management and modelling, case studies related to wetland vulnerability, water pollution, water quality, extreme climate hazards and others issues and its sustainable diminution through ingenious ideas and technologies that will incur valuable information to the stakeholders in the society. Given its scope, this book will be useful for the researchers and professionals. About the Author Prof. (Dr.) Pankaj Kumar Roy is currently the Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies, Law and Management of Jadavpur University and Professor and Joint Director of the Department of School of Water Resources Engineering, Jadavpur University (JU). He is also the Director of School of Environmental Studies, JU. He earned his doctorate in Water Resources Engineering and Management from Jadavpur University which was mainly concentrated on modeling hydrological regime under impact of climate change scenario. His thrust area includes hydraulics and water resources engineering, fluid mechanics, climate change and its impact on water resources engineering, surface water pollution and its mitigation, groundwater dynamics, watershed technology and management, water conservation technology, hydro-geological investigation, surface and ground water interaction, solid waste management, environmental modelling, waste water characteristics etc. He is the recipient of several fellowships and awards such as Young Scientist (Institute of Engineers, Govt. of India), 1st National Doctorate Fellow by AICTE at JU (Govt. of India), Internship Fellowship (University of Pisa, Italy) and IEI Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers (India), Government of India). He has acted as the invited speaker and the chair-person in as many as 20 reputed national and international seminars, conferences and workshops. He was the co-ordinator of international Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management conducted by School of Water Resources Engineering, Jadavpur University under collaboration with Women’s College Calcutta and National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. He has completed 20 national and international research projec