Hydrology Books

New and Published Books

1. Asian Perspectives on Water Policy

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Asit Biswas

   Asian countries are not homogenous. They are in different stages of social and economic development, with cultural conditions and institutional and legal frameworks varying from one country to another. Therefore, how water can be successfully managed differs from one country to another. The book...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Water Quality Management

   Present Situations, Challenges and Future Perspectives

   Edited by Asit Biswas, Cecilia Tortajada, Rafael Izquierdo

   The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
3. Water Resources and Development

   By Clive Agnew, Philip Woodhouse

   Series: Routledge Perspectives on Development

   Since the start of the twenty-first century there has been an unprecedented focus upon water as a key factor in the future of both society and environment. Water management lies at the heart of strategies of development as does the added the hazard of climate change. Water Resources and...

   Published October 31st 2010 by Routledge
4. Urban Flood Management

   By Chris Zevenbergen, Adrian Cashman, Niki Evelpidou, Erik Pasche, Stephen Garvin, Richard Ashley

   Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than...

   Published September 20th 2010 by CRC Press
5. Recursive Streamflow Forecasting

   A State Space Approach

   By Jozsef Szilagyi, Andras Szollosi Nagy

   This textbook is a practical guide to real-time streamflow forecasting that provides a rigorous description of a coupled stochastic and physically-based flow routing method and its practical applications. This method is used in current times of record-breaking floods to forecast flood...

   Published June 24th 2010 by CRC Press
6. Water Management in Megacities

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, Olli Varis, Asit Biswas, Jan Lundqvist

   Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The special issue will focus on water management in its totality for megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal, institutional and environmental...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
7. Land, Water and Development

   Sustainable and Adaptive Management of Rivers

   By Malcolm Newson

   Water is newsworthy: there is, or will be, a world water crisis. Aggravated by climate change, we are approaching the limits of human exploitation of freshwater resources, notably in growing essential food. The complexities and uncertainties associated with improving our management of fresh water...

   Published September 16th 2008 by Routledge
8. Fundamentals of Hydrology

   By Tim Davie

   Series: Routledge Fundamentals of Physical Geography

   In order to manage the world's increasingly scarce water resources we must have a sound understanding of how water moves around the planet and what influences water quality. Fundamentals of Hydrology provides an engaging and comprehensive introduction to this subject and provides real-life examples...

   Published April 23rd 2008 by Routledge
9. Water and Disasters

   Edited by Chennat Gopalakrishnan, Norio Okada

   This book is the first major attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, the many issues associated with water and disasters. It is particularly relevant and topical in view of the increasing frequency and intensity of water-triggered disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years,...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
10. Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamics for Water Resources

    Proceedings of the Conference on Numerical Modelling of Hydrodynamic Systems (Zaragoza, Spain, 18-21 June 2007)

    Edited by Pilar Garcia Navarro, Enrique Playán

    Overland flow modelling has been an active field of research for some years, but developments in numerical methods and computational resources have recently accelerated progress, producing models for different geometries and types of flows, such as simulations of canal and river networks. ...

    Published September 16th 2007 by Taylor & Francis