IAHR Water Monograph Guidance for Water Engineering in a Changing Climate
With the support of University of Brescia
By Roberto Ranzi (Editor), Abdalla Ahmed, Bregje Van Wesenbeeck, Deg-Hyo Bae, Giorgi Filippo, Giovanna Grossi, Guinevere Nalder, Hyun-Han Kwon,Iñigo J. Losada, Javier L. Lara, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Ramesh Teegavarapu, Talita Silva, Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen, Yangwen Jia
ISBN (electronic): 978-90-835589-4-3
ISBN (printed): 978-90-835589-3-6
ISSN: 2959-7978
This IAHR Monograph aims at providing a guidance to professionals, researchers and policy makers for assessing observed and projected impact of climate variability and change on the hydro-systems and to adapt the practice of engineering design of hydraulic infrastructures and water resources management to such changes. It will present an overview of methods for the analysis of non-stationary time series and of the estimate of the hydrological and hydraulic design variables as precipitation, floods, droughts, sea level and storm surges by relaxing the hypothesis of stationarity of the climate.
About the authors
Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Italy.
Unesco Chair, Khartoum, Sudan.
Deltares, The Netherlands and Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Netherlands.
Department of of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, South Korea.
Giorgi Filippo
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy.
Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brescia, Italy.
New Zealand Qualifications Authority, New Zealand.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, South Korea.
Director of Research at IH Cantabria IHCantabria- Institute of Environmental Hydraulics of University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
Head of Climate Risks, Adaptation and Resilience Group at IHCantabria- Institute of Environmental Hydraulics of University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Japan.
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA.
Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Department of Civil Engineering, McGill University, Canada.
Department of Water Resources, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), China.
Opinions from experts
“This IAHR Monograph aims at providing a guidance to professionals, researchers and policy makers for assessing observed and projected impact of climate variability and change on the hydro-systems and to adapt the practice of engineering design of hydraulic infrastructures and water resources management to such changes. It will present an overview of methods for the analysis of non-stationary time series and of the estimate of the hydrological and hydraulic design variables as precipitation, floods, droughts, sea level and storm surges by relaxing the hypothesis of stationarity of the climate. Starting from examples taken from case studies of adaptation measures worldwide, it will provide some guidance for designing a balanced ‘blend’ of grey and green hydraulic works as urban stormwater drainage systems, dam spillways, river embankments, reservoirs, coastal defence systems and for managing water resources in changing climate conditions."
Jaak Monbaliu
How to cite
Ranzi, Roberto, Deg-Hyo Bae, Guinevere Nalder, Iñigo J. Losada, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Ramesh Teegavarapu, Talita Silva, y Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen. Guidance for Water Engineering in a Changing Climate. IAHR Water Monograph Series. Beijing: International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, 2025.