Increasing human pressures on coastlines and associated threats posed by sea-level rise
have stimulated development of a range of different concepts and methodological …

The important relationship between health and water necessitates consideration of water
vulnerability. Water vulnerability is contingent upon biophysical and social drivers operating …

Water systems planners have long recognized the need for robust solutions capable of
withstanding deviations from the conditions for which they were designed. Robustness …

Storage and controlled distribution of water have been key elements of a human strategy to
overcome the space and time variability of water, which have been marked by catastrophic …

Rural areas still account for almost half the world's population, and about 70% of the
developing world's poor people.{9.1. 1}. There is a lack of clear definition of what constitutes …

While optimality is a foundational mathematical concept in water resources planning and
management,“optimal” solutions may be vulnerable to failure if deeply uncertain future …

This paper presents an environmental risk assessment/risk management framework to
assess the impacts of climate change on individual exposure units identified as potentially …

First published in 1995, the award-winning Civil Engineering Handbook soon became
known as the field's definitive reference. To retain its standing as a complete, authoritative …

During the last decade, there have been increasing concerns over water resource drought in
northern England, brought about by the 1995 Yorkshire drought with an estimated 5‐month …

This paper proposes and demonstrates a new interactive framework for sensitivity-informed
de Novo planning to confront the deep uncertainty within water management problems. The …