River, Sediment and Hydrological Extremes: Causes, Impacts and Management

Dr Manish Pandey graduated in Civil Engineering from Uttarakhand Technical University, India. He completed his masters and doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Presently, Dr Pandey is Assistant Professor at NIT Warangal since 2019. He has more than 5 years teaching and research experience in experimental hydraulics and water resources engineering. He has authored more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers and 20+ book chapters and conference proceeding papers.  He has guided 1 PhD and 5 M.Tech students. Presently he is guiding 4 PhD and 5 M.Tech students. He was also awarded MOST postdoctoral research grant in year 2018. He is an editorial board member of various national and international journals. Dr. Pandey is an active reviewer in several reputed peer-reviewed journals.Prof. Anil Kumar Gupta is a sustainability risk management strategist working in the area of disaster management, environment and climate resilience for more than25 years with national, sub-national and business administrations. He is currently a full Professor and Head of India’s National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) Division of Environment and Disaster Risk Management. He is Programme Director of the Centre for Excellence on Climate Resilience and implementing projects, viz. CAP-RES (with DST, under National Knowledge Mission on Climate Change), National Agriculture Disaster Management Plan (with Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer’s Welfare). He was a recipient of Excellence Award by the Society of Environmental & Occupational Health, and bestowed with IDRC Canada’s Think Tank Initiative Senior Fellowship 2011 for policy research.Prof. Giuseppe Oliveto is Associate Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at the School of Engineering of University of Basilicata (Italy). Since 1992 he has been carrying out theoretical and experimental studies encompassing: evolution and patterns of river networks, fluvial hydraulics, sediment transport, bridge hydraulics, and urban drainage hydraulics. He is author of more than 100 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He is an editorial board member of various national and international journals. He was recognized as outstanding reviewer by international journals. He has been awarded the Robert Alfred Carr Prize by the Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) - London (UK) for the paper "Temporal scour evolution at non-uniform bridge piers" published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Water Management, Volume 170, October 2017.

• Part 1. Introduction and Overview.- 1. Flood Modelling using MIF method with GIS techniques: a case study of Iril River catchment, Manipur, India.- 2. A case study on estimating the ecosystem service values (ESVS) under anthropogenic influences for Chennai and Hyderabad.- 3. Groundwater vulnerability mapping using modified drastic model: a GIS based case study of Imphal east district, Manipur, India.- 4. Flood hazard mapping using hydraulic models and GIS: a review.- 5. A case study on prediction of heatwave days using machine learning algorithms over Telangana.- 6. Quantifying the reliability of reanalysis precipitation products across India.- 7. Weakly nonlinear waves in non-ideal fluids.- 8. Spatial and temporal variability of soil moisture, its measurement and methods for analysis: a review.- Part 2. Causes and Impacts.- 9. Streamflow estimation using entropy-based flow routing technique in Brahmani river, Odisha.- 10. Infiltration of suspended fine sediments into surface layerof coarse sediment-bedded channel.- 11. River water flow prediction rate based on machine learning algorithms: a case study of Dez river, Iran.- 12. A case study in evaluating spatio-temporal variations in drought and its risk assessment over Telangana using satellite data.- 13. Drought modeling through drought indices in GIS environment: a case study of Thoubal district, Manipur, India.- 14. Copula based probabilistic evaluation of meteorological drought characteristics over India.- 15. Nonstationary flood frequency analysis: review of methods and models.- 16. Multi-day Extreme Precipitation Ranking and Association with Atmospheric Moisture Transport during Indian Summer Monsoon.- Part 3. River Restoration, Hydraulic Structure Stability and Flood Risk Management.- 17. Remote sensing and its application on soil and ecosystem services.- 18. Sustainable land and water management in urban areas: Emerging challenges.- 19. Nature of Bursting Events Over a Rigid Bed with Emergent Vegetation.- 20. Recirculation region control behind a partially submerged cylinder due to wave against current.- 21. Assessment of sedimentation in Kaliasote reservoir, Bhopal using satellite remote sensing techniques.- 22. Development of River Atlas using space and ground based inputs for Brahmaputra and Barak valleys in Assam, India.- 23. Numerical study of flow through Linear Weir.- 24. Artificial Intelligence Based Fully Scalable Realtime Early Flood Warning System.- 25. Sustainability through Integrated Resilience and Risk Management: Rivers and Disasters in Changing Climate.