Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity Environmental Impacts and Analysis of Drought and Water Scarcity

This volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines the environmental aspects of drought such as groundwater and soil contamination, river low-flow, urban water quality, and desertification. It also examines the effects of climate change and variability on drought, and discusses the differences in groundwater, rainfall, and temperatures and their related effects. It presents analytical modeling for better understanding drought in uncertain and changing climates.

Editors Contributors 1 Drought Vulnerability Chandrashekhar Bhuiyan 2 Drought Impacts on Urbanization Shafi Noor Islam and Samina Mazumder Tuli 3 Environmental Impacts of Drought on Desertification Classification Nicolas R. Dalezios and Saeid Eslamian 4 Climate Parameter Variability Marco Casazza 5 Climate Change Impact on Urban Water Deficit Sara Nazif, Hamed Tavakolifar, and Saeid Eslamian 6 Climate Change Impacts on and Adaptation to Groundwater Shamsuddin Shahid, Mahiuddin Alamgir, Xiao-jun Wang, and Saeid Eslamian 7 Climate Change Impacts on Precipitation and Temperature Marina Baldi 8 Minimizing the Impacts of Drought Oluwagbenga O.I. Orimoogunje and Saeid Eslamian 9 Climate Change and Drought: Building Resilience for an Unpredictable Future Hamideh Maleksaeidi, Marzieh Keshavarz, Ezatollah Karami, and Saeid Eslamian 10 Sustainable Agriculture: Building Social-Ecological Resilience Mohammad Naser Reyhani, Saeid Eslamian, and Alireza Davari 11 Drought and Water Quality Theodore C. Crusberg and Saeid Eslamian 12 Securing Water Pollution Marine Nalbandyan 13 Conjunctive Use of Water Reuse in Drought Katherine Y. Bell, Robert Bastian, and Jennifer A. Gelmini 14 Criteria for Wastewater Treatment and Reuse under Water Scarcity Miquel Salgot, Gideon Oron, Giuseppe L. Cirelli, Nicolas R. Dalezios, Amelia Díaz, and Andreas N. Angelakis 15 Drought and Groundwater Quality in Coastal Areas Yohannes Yihdego 16 Contamination of Groundwater in Arid and Semiarid Lands Noureddine Gaaloul, Saeid Eslamian, and Benoit Laignel 17 Sanitation in Drought Bosun Banjoko and Saeid Eslamian 18 Environmental Flows Assessment in Scarce Water Resources Alireza Davari, Ali Bagheri, Mohammad Naser Reyhani, and Saeid Eslamian 19 Low Flow and Instream Flow Requirements Salvatore Alecci and Giuseppe Rossi 20 Streamflow Quality in Low-Flow Conditions Qin Qian and Saeid Eslamian 21 River Sediment in Low Flow Condition Nazanin Mohammadzade Miyab, Saeid Eslamian, and Nicolas R. Dalezios 22 Impact of Overexploitation of Water Resources on Ecohydrological Change in China Tadanobu Nakayama 23 Crop Insurance in Drought Conditions C. Dionisio Pérez-Blanco, Gonzalo Delacámara, C. Mario Gómez, and Saeid Eslamian 24 Biotechnology for Drought Improvement Danial Kahrizi, Kasra Esfehani, Ali Ashraf Mehrabi, Matin Ghaheri, Zahra Azizi Aram, Solmaz Khosravi, and Saeid Eslamian 25 Water Issues from a System Dynamics Perspective Peter Wade and Saeid Eslamian 26 Rainwater Harvesting in Arid Regions of Australia Ataur Rahman, Evan Hajani, and Saeid Eslamian 27 Water Conservation Techniques Meysam Malekian Jabali, Saeid Okhravi, Saeid Eslamian, and Saeed Gohari 28 Food Security and Nutrition Policy Shafi Noor Islam, Sandra Reinstädtler, Maria Aparecida de SáXavier, and Albrecht Gnauck 29 Soil Contaminations in Arid and Semiarid Land Saumitra Mukherjee, Kamana Yadav, and Saeid Eslamian 30 Water Scarcity and Sustainable Urban Green Landscape Soleyman Dayani, Mohammad R. Sabzalian, Mahdi Hadipour, and Saeid Eslamian 31 Drought in Lake Urmia Saeid Okhravi, Saeid Eslamian, and Saleh Tarkesh Esfahany 32 Interbasin Transfers of Water: Zayandeh-Rud River Basin Alireza Gohari, Mohammad Javad Zareian, Saeid Eslamian, and Rouzbeh Nazari 33 Environmental Evaluation: Lessons Learned from Case Studies Bosun Banjoko and Saeid Eslamian 34 Paleo-Drought: Measurements and Analysis Dinara Abbasova, Saeid Eslamian, and Rouzbeh Nazari Index

Dr. Saeid Eslamian is professor of Hydrology at Isfahan University of Technology, where he heads the Hydrology Research Group in the Department of Water Engineering. His research focuses mainly on statistical and environmental hydrology and climate change. In particular, he is working on modeling and prediction of natural hazards including flood, drought, storms, wind, groundwater drawdown, and pollution for arid and semi-arid zones, particularly in urban areas. He is also a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and University of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has contributed to more than 300 publications in books, research journals, and technical reports or papers in conferences. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of both the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology and the Journal of Flood Engineering. He received ASCE and EWRI awards in 2009 and 2010 for his research. Faezeh A. Eslamian is a PhD candidate of bioresource engineering and research assistant at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is currently working on the fate and transport of phosphorus through subsurface drained farmlands. Dr. Eslamian completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, where she evaluated natural and low-cost absorbents for the removal of pollutants such as textile dyes and heavy metals. Furthermore, she has conducted research on the worldwide water quality standards, wastewater reuse, and drought guidelines.