Ganoulis Risk Analysis of Water Pollution

2. überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-527-62667-0
Verlag: Wiley-VCH
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 311 Seiten, E-Book

Ein Klassiker: Der praxisorientierte Leitfaden der Identifizierung und Evaluierung von Umweltgefahren durch Wasserverschmutzung wurde für diese Neuauflage erweitert und um aktuelle Entwicklungen (sowohl in der Hydrologie als auch in der Mathematik der Risikoanalyse) ergänzt. Der Autor berücksichtigt Grundwasser und Oberflächenwasser (Flüsse, Küstengewässer) gleichermaßen ausführlich und illustriert den Text mit mehreren Fallstudien und einer kritischen Analyse der verwendeten Methoden. Standards und Direktiven der UNESCO und EU werden auf dem neuesten Stand erläutert.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ganoulis, Jacques

Inhaltsverzeichnis

WATER RESOURCES: QUANTITY AND QUALITY
Water Pollution and Risk Analysis
Water Pollution in Transboundary Regions
The EU Water Framework Directive
Uncertainties in Water Resources Management
Environmental Risk Assessment and Management
Aim and Organisation of the Book
Questions and Problems - Chapter 1
RISK IDENTIFICATION
Definition of Risk
Typology of Risks and the Precautionary Principle
Uncertainties in Water Pollution Problems
Water Quality Specifications
Probabilistic Risk and Reliability
Fuzzy Risk and Reliability
Questions and Problems - Chapter 2
RISK QUANTIFICATION
Stochastic Approach
Fuzzy Set Theory
Time Dependence and System Risk
Questions and Problems - Chapter 3
RISK ASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL WATER QUALITY
Risk in Coastal Water Pollution
Risk in River Water Quality
Risk in Groundwater Contamination
Questions and Problems - Chapter 4
RISK MANAGEMENT
Performance Indices and Figures of Merit
Objective Functions and Optimisation
Basic Decision Theory
Elements of the Utility Theory
Multi-Objective Decision Analysis
Questions and Problems - Chapter 5
CASE STUDIES
Coastal Pollution: The Thermaikos Gulf (Macedonia, Greece)
River Water Quality: The Axios River (Macedonia, Greece)
Groundwater Pollution: The Campaspe Aquifer (Victoria, Australia)
APPENDIX A: THE PROBABILISTIC APPROACH
Basic Probability
The Multiplicative Law
Statistical Independence
Rare Events
Theorem of Total Probability
Bayes-Theorem
Random Variables
Expectation, Variance and Standard Deviation
Derived Distributions
Two-Dimensional Distributions
Functions of Random Vectors
APPENDIX B: THE FUZZY SET THEORY
Basic Definitions
Fuzzy Sets
h-Level Sets, Normal and Convex Fuzzy Sets
Fuzzy Numbers
Cartesian Product
Extension Principle
Arithmetic Operations on Fuzzy Numbers as Extension of Interval Analysis
Arithmetic Operations on Intervals
APPENDIX C: HINTS FOR ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS

Über Autor(innen)

Jacques Ganoulis is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toulouse (France) and has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Erlangen (Germany), McGill (Canada), Melbourne (Australia), and Paris VI, France. He is an internationally well-known expert on groundwater and surface water resources management and the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair/International Network of Water-Environment Centres for the Balkans (INWEB) on "sustainable management of water and conflict resolution".