Essential Tools for Water Resources Analysis, Planning, and Management

This book describes tools needed in water resources management, using methods such as optimization algorithms, conflict resolution methods, risk and uncertainty analysis, to better manage water resources and consumption, thus mitigating the present and future global water shortage crisis. It presents the applications of these tools through case studies which demonstrate its benefits of proper management of water resources. This book acts as a reference for students, professors, industrial practitioners and stakeholders in the field of water resources management and hydrology

Auteur
Dr. Omid Bozorg-Haddad is a distinguished professor at the University of Tehran, Iran. His teaching and research interests include water resources, energy, and environmental systems analysis, engineering, planning, and management as well as application of simulation techniques and optimization algorithms in water related systems. He has published more than 40 books and book chapters, 300 journal and 200 conference papers.

Résumé

This book describes concepts and tools needed for water resources management, including methods for modeling, simulation, optimization, big data analysis, data mining, remote sensing, geographical information system, game theory, conflict resolution, System dynamics, agent-based models, multiobjective, multicriteria, and multiattribute decision making and risk and uncertainty analysis, for better and sustainable management of water resources and consumption, thus mitigating the present and future global water shortage crisis. It presents the applications of these tools through case studies which demonstrate its benefits of proper management of water resources systems. This book acts as a reference for students, professors, industrial practitioners, and stakeholders in the field of water resources and hydrology.

Contenu
Modelling and Simulation.- Optimization.- Big data and Databases.- Data mining.- Remote sensing.- Geographical information system.- System dynamics.- Agent-based models.- Game theory.- Conflicts resolution.- Multi-objective optimization.- Multicriteria and multi-attribute decision.- making.- Risk, uncertainty, and reliability.