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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.

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Author:   Qiuhong Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) ,  Guoyong Leng
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   1.090kg
ISBN:  

9781108479837

ISBN 10:   1108479839
Pages:   502
Publication Date:   07 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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; Index.

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Qiuhong Tang is a Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is Associate Editor of Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Journal of Hydrometeorology and the Journal of Geographical Sciences, and has edited two books. Guoyong Leng is a Professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is an Editorial Board Member of Science of The Total Environment, an Associate Editor of Geoscience Data Journal, and an Editorial Board Member of Water.

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