Acknowledgment
Preface
Summary Chapter
Part 1. Wadi Flash Floods Challenges and Strategies
Chapter 1. Integrated Strategies for Management of Wadi Flash Floods In The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Arid Zones: The ISFF Project
Chapter 2. Flood Risk Management Practices in Morocco: Facts and Challenges
Chapter 3. Flood Analysis and Mitigation Strategies in Algeria
Part 2. Hydrometeorology and Climate changes
Chapter 4. Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Temperature and Precipitation Over India
Chapter 5. Analysis of The Hydrological Behavior of Watersheds in The Context of Climate Change (Northwestern Algeria)
Part 3. Rainfall-Runoff Modeling and Approaches
Chapter 6. Validation of Flash Flood Simulations Using Satellite Images And Community-Based Observations - Impact of Infiltration and Small-Scale Topographical Features
Chapter 7. Advanced Tools for Flood Management: An Early Warning System for Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
Chapter 8. Hydrologic Assessment of The Uncertainty of Six Remote Sensing Precipitation Estimates Driven by A Distributed Hydrologic Model in The Blue Nile Basin.
Chapter 9. Innovative Monitoring Techniques for Wadi Flash Flood by Using Image-Based Analysis
Chapter 10. A Temporally Varied Rainfall Simulator for Flash flood studies
Part 4. Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation
Chapter 11. The Role of Urban Planning and Landscape Tools Concerning Flash Flood Risk Reduction within Arid and Semi-Arid Regions
Chapter 12. Measuring Vulnerability to Flash Flood Of Urban Dwellers.
Chapter 13. Flash flood modeling and mitigation in arid and semi-arid basins: Case studies from Oman and Brazil
Chapter 14. Assessment of Exposure to Flash Flooding in An Arid Environment: A Case Study of The Jeddah City Neighborhood Abruq Ar Rughamah, Saudi Arabia
Part 5. Reservoir Sedimentation and Sediment Yield
Chapter 15. Integrated Study of Flash Floods in Wadi Basins Considering Sedimentation and Climate Change: An International Collaboration Project
Chapter 16. Sediment Transport in Shallow Waters: As A Multiphysics Approach
Chapter 17. Water Erosion and Sediment Transport In An Ungauged Semiarid Area: The Case Of Hodna Basin In Algeria
Chapter 18. Reservoir Sediment Management Practices in Sudan: A Case Study of Khashm El-Girba Dam
Chapter 19. Determining the Precipitation Intensity Threshold of Debris Flood Occurrence
Part 6. Groundwater Management
Chapter 20. Assessment of Groundwater Resources in Water Spring Areas Using Geophysical Methods, Northern UAE
Chapter 21. Evaluation of the Effect of the Wadi Bih Dam on Groundwater Recharge, UAE
Chapter 22. Assessment the impacts of groundwater over-drafting on water quality and environment degradation at Fares area, Aswan, Egypt
About the Author: Tetsuya Sumi is a professor at the Water Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan. He has a degree in civil engineering from Kyoto University. Subsequently, he worked for the Japanese Ministry of Construction. His specialties are hydraulics and dam engineering, with particular emphasis on integrated sediment management for reservoir sustainability and river basin environment improvement. He has contributed to several international associations and conferences, such as IAHR, ISRS, and ISE. He organized the 2nd International Workshop on Sediment Bypass Tunnels in 2017 in collaboration with ETH-Swiss and NTU-Taiwan. He recently conducted a general report of Q100 'RESERVOIR SEDIMENTATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT' at the 26th ICOLD Congress, Vienna, Austria, in July 2018.
Sameh A. Kantoush is currently an associate professor at Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. He received his master's and doctorate degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Saga University in Japan and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, respectively. Prior to joining Kyoto, he served at the German University in Cairo (GUC) as an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Program. He is a member of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) and Syndicate of Engineers in Egypt. The industrial expertise of Dr. Kantoush is predominantly in infrastructure projects at multinational consulting firms in many countries. His research interests span the fundamentals of shallow flow and sediment transport, wadi flash floods, reservoir sustainability, ecohydraulics, dam impacts, and sediment management techniques.
Mohamed Saber is currently working as a specially appointed associate professor of the Water Resources Research Center, the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University. He has a Ph.D. in Hydrology from Kyoto University, Japan, and has worked as an assistant professor at the Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Egypt. Saber has experience working and holding different positions, such as a senior researcher, Water Resources Research Center Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan; a visiting professor, Geological Eng., Middle East Technical Univ., Turkey; a postdoctoral researcher, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA, USA; a postdoctoral researcher, Kyoto University; and a research assistant, GCOE_ARS Project, Kyoto University, DPRI, Japan. Mohamed participated in more than 50 different publications and supervised more than 20 undergraduate, professional diploma, master's and doctorate students. His research interests are mainly focused on flood forecasting and risk management, hydrometeorological analysis and climate change, water resources management, reservoir sedimentation management, and remote sensing and GIS applications, as well as machine learning techniques in flash flood risk assessment.
