Hydro-Environmental Impact of Climate and Land Use Change on Watersheds for Sustainable Development

This book includes the most up-to-date research findings on the topics of climate change impact assessment, land use change impact assessment, mathematical modelling, and field applications presented as case studies in the water resources engineering discipline. The book covers various aspects of hydrological and environmental processes; provides a comprehensive treatment of climate change and land use changes and their impacts, illustrated with case studies; and demonstrates recent modelling techniques for hydrological and environmental impact studies. The book may serve graduate students, engineers, professors, and researchers in providing a concise overview of climate and land use change and its impacts on hydrology, water resources, and the environment.

Dr T. I. Eldho is a professor and Former Chair of Civil Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He has over 30 years of experience in the areas of watershed management, climate change impacts, and groundwater flow. He has extensively worked in the areas of watershed modeling, river basin management, and climate change impact assessment studies, developed field scale models, supervised number of PhDs. and published large number of research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has co-authored two textbooks, contributed a number of book chapters, developed two popular video courses on fluid mechanics and watershed management, and serves as Editor/Associate Editor of a number of Indian and International Journals.Dr M. K. Jha is a professor at the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department of North Carolina A&T State University, USA, and a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of hydrology, water quality, water management strategies, and impact assessment. His research accomplishments include receiving substantial extramural funding, providing student support and mentoring, and publishing many peer-reviewed journal articles, and conference presentations.