Risk Analysis of Water Pollution (PDF)

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

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".

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