Climate Risk and Sustainable Water Management

A comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security for students, researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and management professionals.

Qiuhong Tang (Edited by), Guoyong Leng (Edited by)

9781108479837, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 April 2022

502 pages
25 x 17.5 x 2.6 cm, 1.09 kg

Climate change is leading to changing patterns of precipitation and increasingly extreme global weather. There is an urgent need to synthesize our current knowledge on climate risks to water security, which in turn is fundamental for achieving sustainable water management. Climate Risk and Sustainable Water Management discusses hydrological extremes, climate variability, climate impact assessment, risk analysis, and hydrological modelling. It provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of climate risks to water security, helping to guide sustainable water management in a changing and uncertain future. The relevant theory is accessibly explained using examples throughout, helping readers to apply the knowledge learned to their own situations and challenges. This textbook is especially valuable to students of hydrology, resource management, climate change, and geography, as well as a reference textbook for researchers, civil and environmental engineers, and water management professionals concerned with water-related hazards, water cycles, and climate change.

Part I. Water-Related Risks under Climate Change: 1. Pluvial, fluvial, and coastal flood risks and sustainable flood management in the Pearl River Delta under climate change Jianfeng Li, Xiaogang Shi, Yongqin David Chen and Yangchen Lai
2. Flooding risk in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin under global change Xiaobo Yun, Jie Wang, Huan Wu, Binod Baniya, Hui Lu, Siao Sun, Ximeng Xu, Xingcai Liu and Qiuhong Tang
3. Spatial drought patterns in East Africa Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile, Qiuhong Tang and Binod Baniya
4. Assessment of global water erosion vulnerability under climate change Muqi Xiong and Guoyong Leng
5. Water erosion and its controlling factors in the Anthropocene Ximeng Xu and Qiuhong Tang
6. Climate change impacts on saltwater intrusion into coastal aquifers Han Xiao, Haiming Li, Yin Tang, Qiuhong Tang and Marwan Kheimi
Part II. Climate Risk to Human and Natural Systems: 7. Observed urban effects on temperature and precipitation in Southeast China Siao Sun, Guangdong Li and Qiuhong Tang
8. Vegetation dynamics, land use and ecological risk in response to NDVI and climate change in Nepal Binod Baniya, Qiuhong Tang, Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha, Hom Bahadur Baniya and Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile
9. Climate warming induced frozen soil changes and the corresponding environmental effect on the Tibetan Plateau: a review Yunyun Ban, Qiuhong Tang and Ximeng Xu
10. A review of the effects of climate extremes on agriculture production Xiaomeng Yin and Guoyong Leng
11. Agricultural water use estimation and impact assessment on the water system in China Mengfei Mu, Qiuhong Tang, Ximing Cai, Siao Sun and Huijuan Cui
12. Impact of inter-basin water transfer on water scarcity in water-receiving area under global warming: a case study of the south-to-north water diversion project Yuanyuan Yin, Qiuhong Tang and Lei Wang
13. Broadening and deepening the rainfall-induced landslide detection: practices and perspectives at a global scale Guoqiang Jia, Qiuhong Tang, Stefano Luigi Gariano, Massimo Melillo, Ximeng Xu, Guoyong Leng and Xu Li
14. Estimating aquifer depth in arid and semi-arid watersheds using statistical modeling of spectral MODIS products Seyed Rashid Fallah Shamsi, Parisa Ansari, Masoud Masoudi and Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
Part III. Sustainable Water Management under Future Uncertainty: 15. Managing urban flood risk and building resilience in a changing climate Yueling Wang, Qiuhong Tang and Nigel Wright
16. Soft computing methods and water management Mohammad Zounemat-Kermani and Meysam Alizamir
17. Rainwater harvesting for sustainable water resource management under climate change Ram L. Ray, Rajendra P. Sishodia and Tolulope Olutimehin
18. Variability of runoff coefficient and precipitation elasticity at watersheds across China Yin Tang, Qiuhong Tang and Zhonggen Wang
19. Contribution of hydrological model calibration uncertainty to future hydrological projections over various temporal scales – a case study in the Boulder Creek watershed Qinghuan Zhang, Qiuhong Tang, Guoyong Leng and Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari
20. Future water scarcity over the Yellow River basin and the effects of adaptive measures Zhongwei Huang, Qiuhong Tang and Yuanyuan Yin
21. Shrinking Lake Urmia: causes, future projection, and implications Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, Qiuhong Tang, Guoyong Leng and Ximeng Xu
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Subject Areas: Hydrology & the hydrosphere [RBK], Environment law [LNKJ], International environmental law [LBBP]