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Resilience of Large Water Management Infrastructure

Solutions from Modern Atmospheric Science

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Editors:
  1. Faisal Hossain

    1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  • 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

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Resilience of Water Management Infrastructure

    • Faisal Hossain, Jeffrey Arnold, Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ji Chen, Dave Wegner et al.
    Pages 1-20

  3. Survey of Water Managers for Twenty-First Century Challenges

    • Faisal Hossain, Jeffrey Arnold, Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ji Chen, Dave Wegner et al.
    Pages 21-34

  4. Current Approaches for Resilience Assessment

    • Faisal Hossain, Dev Niyogi, Roger A. Pielke Sr., Ji Chen, Dave Wegner, Anindita Mitra et al.
    Pages 35-43

  5. Application of Numerical Atmospheric Models

    • Xiaodong Chen, Faisal Hossain, Lai-Yung Leung
    Pages 45-60

  6. Infrastructure-Relevant Storms of the Last Century

    • Xiaodong Chen, Faisal Hossain
    Pages 61-75

  7. Sensitivity of Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP)

    • Steven Adam Stratz, Faisal Hossain
    Pages 77-87

  8. A Recommended Paradigm Shift in the Approach to Risks to Large Water Infrastructure in the Coming Decades

    • Roger A. Pielke Sr., Faisal Hossain
    Pages 89-109

  9. Safety Design of Water Infrastructures in a Modern Era

    • Xiaodong Chen
    Pages 111-124
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Faisal Hossain

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