Overview
- Presents research works in the field of sustainable water resources management
- Reviews best selected papers presented at SWARM 2020 held in Assam, India
- Serves as a reference for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry
Part of the book series: Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology (ASST)
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Table of contents (24 papers)
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Front Matter
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Climate Change
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Modelling
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Keywords
- Water Management and Planning
- Urban Water Management
- Climate Change and Global Warming
- Management of Groundwater and Aquifer Remediation
- Water Conservation
- Water Quality and Pollution Control
- Management of Transboundary Rivers
- Hydrological Modeling
- Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
- Hydro Disaster Risk Management
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Water Resources Management
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of SWARM 2020
Editors: Rajib Kumar Bhattacharjya, Bipul Talukdar, Konstantinos L. Katsifarakis
Series Title: Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7535-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7534-8Published: 18 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-7535-5Published: 17 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-6829
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6837
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 235
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 92 illustrations in colour
Topics: Civil Engineering, Water, general, Ecology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Environmental and Sustainability Education