Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering: Volume 4: Effective Environmental Management for Sustainable Development / Edition 4

by Keith W. Hipel, Liping Fang

Overview

In this landmark set of papers, experts from around the world present the latest and most promising approaches to both the theory and practice of effective environmental management. To achieve sustainable development, organizations and individual citizens must comply with environmental laws and regulations. Accordingly, a major contribution of this book is the presentation of original techniques for designing effective environmental policies, regulations, inspection precedures and monitoring systems. Interesting methods for modelling risk and decision making problems are discussed from an environmental management perspective. Moreover, knowledge-based techniques for handling environmental problems are also investigated. Finally, the last main part of the book describes optimal approaches to reservoir operation and control that take into account appropriate multiple objectives.

Audience
The book is of direct interest to researchers, teachers, students and practitioners concerned with the latest developments in environmental management and sustainable development.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789048143801
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	12/10/2010
Series:	Water Science and Technology Library , #10
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 4th ed. 1994
Pages:	462
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

I: Compliance to Environmental Regulations and Monitoring.- Enforcement of Environmental Laws and Regulations: A Literature Review.- Sustainable Development and the Role of Environmental Law Enforcement.- A Policy for Inducing Compliance to Environmental Regulations.- Game-Theoretic Analysis of Integrated Environmental Management with Combined Reuse of Wastewater.- How Penalty Affects Enforcement of Environmental Regulations Under Perfect Detection.- Risk in Ex Ante User Charge Schemes.- Information, Knowledge and Environmental Regulations.- Estimation of Quantiles with Application to Regulations.- Probabilistic Design of Multi-Stage Rotating Biological Contactors.- Square Root Transformation of Data in an Effluent Limit Setting Program.- Development of a Methodology for Data Collection Network Design.- A Comparison of Some Omnibus Monitoring Schemes.- Environmental Monitoring: Architecture of a Global Model.- Probability Criteria for Assessing Water Quality Series.- Selected Variograms and Optimal Network Design of Rainfall Observation Facilities.- II: Risk and Decision Making.- Statistical Properties of Reliability and Resiliency Measures.- Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to the Great Lakes Water Levels Problem.- Hydrological Impact of Regulation Scenarios on Flood Risk Levels on the Great Lakes.- Regional Reliability Envelopes of Flood Warning Systems.- Grey Chance-Constrained Programming: Application to Regional Solid Waste Management Planning.- Probablistic Trade-Off Curves for Multipurpose Reservoir Operation in Colombia.- III: Knowledge-Based Systems.- Knowledge-Based System for Reservoir Operation During Low Flows Utilizing Weather Forecast Information.- Expert System for Inner Basin Drainage.- Knowledge Acquisition and Qualitative Reasoning for Flood Control.- Gate Operations by Fuzzy Inference in Compound River Basins.- Computer Assisted Avalanche Forecasting.- IV: Reservoir Operation.- The Reliability, Resilience, and Vulnerability of Over-Year Water Supply Systems.- A Frequency and Duration Constrained Model for the Optimization of a Single Reservoir Operation.- An Algorithm for Determining Closed-Loop Operations Policies for Multi-Reservoir Systems.- Incorporating Uncertainty in Energy Demand in a Reservoir Reliability Planning Model.- A Comparison of Shastic Optimization Methods for Multi-Reservoir Systems.- Short-Term Control of a Storage Reservoir with Consideration of Long-Term Effects.- Short-Term Control of Two Storage Reservoirs with Consideration of Final Fulfilment.- Shastic Approach to Idle Discharge from Energy Reservoir.- Author Index.