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

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