Stochastic and Statistical Methods in Hydrology and Environmental Engineering: Effective Environmental Management for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Liping Fang, Keith W. Hipel, D. Marc Kilgour (auth.), Keith W. Hipel, Liping Fang (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 461
• Series: Water Science and Technology Library 10/2
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Enforcement of Environmental Laws and Regulations: A Literature Review....Pages 3-15
Sustainable Development and the Role of Environmental Law Enforcement....Pages 17-27
A Policy for Inducing Compliance to Environmental Regulations....Pages 29-42
Game-Theoretic Analysis of Integrated Environmental Management with Combined Reuse of Wastewater....Pages 43-56
How Penalty Affects Enforcement of Environmental Regulations under Perfect Detection....Pages 57-71
Risk in Ex Ante User Charge Schemes....Pages 73-88
Information, Knowledge and Environmental Regulations....Pages 89-102
Estimation of Quantiles with Application to Regulations....Pages 103-112
Probabilistic Design of Multi-Stage Rotating Biological Contactors....Pages 113-125
Square Root Transformation of Data in an Effluent Limit Setting Program....Pages 127-138
Development of a Methodology for Data Collection Network Design....Pages 139-152
A Comparison of Some Omnibus Monitoring Schemes....Pages 153-164
Environmental Monitoring: Architecture of a Global Model....Pages 165-178
Probability Criteria for Assessing Water Quality Series....Pages 179-192
Selected Variograms and Optimal Network Design of Rainfall Observation Facilities....Pages 193-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Statistical Properties of Reliability and Resiliency Measures....Pages 209-220
Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to the Great Lakes Water Levels Problem....Pages 221-244
Hydrologic Impact of Regulation Scenarios on Flood Risk Levels on the Great Lakes....Pages 245-258
Regional Reliability Envelopes of Flood Warning Systems....Pages 259-265
Grey Chance-Constrained Programming: Application to Regional Solid Waste Management Planning....Pages 267-280
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Probabilistic Trade-off Curves for Multipurpose Reservoir Operation in Colombia....Pages 281-291
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Knowledge-Based System for Reservoir Operation during Low Flows Utilizing Weather Forecast Information....Pages 295-308
Expert System for Inner Basin Drainage....Pages 309-320
Knowledge Acquisition and Qualitative Reasoning for Flood Control....Pages 321-334
Gate Operations by Fuzzy Inference in Compound River Basins....Pages 335-345
Computer Assisted Avalanche Forecasting....Pages 347-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
The Reliability, Resilience, and Vulnerability of Over-Year Water Supply Systems....Pages 361-374
A Frequency and Duration Constrained Model for the Optimization of a Single Reservoir Operation....Pages 375-388
An Algorithm for Determining Closed-Loop Operations Policies for Multi-Reservoir Systems....Pages 389-396
Incorporating Uncertainty in Energy Demand in a Reservoir Reliability Planning Model....Pages 397-409
A Comparison of Stochastic Optimization Methods for Multi-Reservoir Systems....Pages 411-424
Short-Term Control of a Storage Reservoir with Consideration of Long-Term Effects....Pages 425-435
Short-Term Control of Two Storage Reservoirs with Consideration of Final Fulfilment....Pages 437-445
Stochastic Approach to Idle Discharge from Energy Reservoir....Pages 447-453
Back Matter....Pages 455-461

✦ Subjects

Hydrogeology; Environmental Management; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Operation Research/Decision Theory