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Decision Support for Natural Disasters and Intentional Threats to Water Security

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Tissa H. Illangasekare

    1. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA

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  2. Katarina Mahutova

    1. Slovam Seattle, Washington, USA

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  3. John J. Barich

    1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Seattle, Washington, USA

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  • Hurricane Katrina, environmental and health effect and response
  • South Asian tsunami of 2004, drinking water resource damage and response
  • Water security and incident response
  • Water resource decision support tools
  • Threats to large aquatic ecosystems

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Natural Stressors and Catastrophic Events

    1. Impacts of The 2004 Tsunami and Subsequent Water Restorations Actions in Sri Lanka

      • Tissa Illangasekare, Jayantha Obeysekera, David Hyndman, Lasantha Perera, Meththika Vithanage, Ananda Gunatilaka
      Pages 3-28

    2. Hurricane Katrina Environmental and Engineering Concerns

      • Danny Reible
      Pages 29-46

    3. Sustainable Water Management and Flood Protection Practices in Bulgaria

      • Plamen Gramatikov
      Pages 47-62

    4. Climate Changes on Natural Hazards and Water Resources

      • David W. Hyndman
      Pages 63-80

  4. Decision Support Tools

    1. Water Management in Croatia: What is at Risk

      • Dragutin Geres
      Pages 159-171

    2. WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS IN SOUTH CAUCASUS REGION

      • Marine Ghazaryan
      Pages 173-178

    3. Geoinformation Support for Water Disaster Situations

      • Jiří Hřebíček, Milan Konečný, Miroslav Kolář
      Pages 179-190

    4. Incorporation of the Critical Infrastructure Management Into the Dss on Strategic Water Supply System Management

      • Primož Banovec, Matej Cerk, Franci Steinman
      Pages 191-198

    5. Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment Using Physical Principles of Contamination Spreading

      • Peter Malik, Silvia Vojtkova
      Pages 199-211

    6. Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Environmental Security

      • Nikolai Bobylev
      Pages 213-228

    7. Service-Oriented Decision Support Governance

      • Jan Pavlovič
      Pages 229-236

    8. An Examination of Ecological Risk Assessment at Landscape Scale and the Management Plan

      • Adnan Kaplan, Şerif Hepcan
      Pages 237-251
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The NATO Advanced Research Workshop, “Decision Support for Natural Disasters and Intentional Threats to Water Security” was the result of close collaboration between environmental, security, water resource, and health officials in the United States and Croatia. The premise of the Workshop is that multiple, disparate threats to water security exist, and that shared decision support structures provide effective means for avoiding and responding to potential or actual situations. The Workshop was co-directed by Professors Tissa Illangasekare of the Colorado School of Mines, and Dragutin Geres of Hrvatske vode. The Workshop was organized into a series of case studies, presentation of management tools, or a combination of the two. Presentations were further organized as to (1) Natural Occurrences, (2) Anthropogenic Causes, and (3) Decision Support Tools. Delegates from eleven countries assembled to explore these topics at the Hotel Dubrovnik President in Dubrovnik from April 22–25, 2007. A total of thirty delegates from NATO, Partner, Mediterranean Dialog, or other countries were in attendance. The final program included technical sessions using a presentation and dialog format, a field trip, and networking sessions. There were twenty five technical presentations supported by seventeen formal papers (many updated in late-2008 and 2009), and these form the basis for these proceedings. xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The co-directors and organizers of this Advanced Research Workshop a- nowledge the NATO Science Programme for major financial support and for providing detailed guidance on how best to organize and execute a meeting of this nature.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA

    Tissa H. Illangasekare

  • Slovam Seattle, Washington, USA

    Katarina Mahutova

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Seattle, Washington, USA

    John J. Barich

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