Environmental Science/Climate Change & Mitigation

Erosion Measurement, Modeling, and Management
Challenges and Solutions

Editors: Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, PhD
Alban Kuriqi, PhD
Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, PhD
Ahmed Elbeltagi, PhD

Erosion Measurement, Modeling, and Management

In production
Pub Date: Forthcoming Spring 2025
Hardback Price: $220 US | £170 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781774916667
Pages: Est. 304pp w/index
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 19 color and 17 b/w illustrations

Erosion control is a priority in the agriculture, construction, and conservation industries as well as in land development applications. The everyday processes involved in these industries can often result in erosion and have a significant adverse impact on the surrounding ecology. These harmful impacts can be minimized by erosion control. The new book, Erosion Measurement, Modeling, and Management: Challenges and Solutions, emphasizes the various erosion concerns and solutions for dealing with them.

The book addresses the impact and effects of changing land use and land cover on soil erosion and various methods of assessing erosion as well as ways to control different types of erosion. The use of models such as WEPP model for estimating runoff and sediment yield, along with three models of erosion (USLE, MUSLE and RUSLE and SWAT) to estimate runoff production patterns and soil erosion hazards are detailed. The book also discusses artificial neural networks and machine learning techniques (random forest), remote sensing data and GIS for mapping soil erosion. Finally, the challenges and limitations for the soil erosion models are also presented.

A comprehensive work on soil erosion, this book brings the latest on soil erosion conservation and mapping techniques. It will prove a valuable resource for academics, researchers, students, decision makers, and professionals who will profit from the information included in it.

CONTENTS:
Preface

1. Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Soil Erosion
Pritam Das, Abhinav Kumar, Vinay Kumar Gautam, and Abhishek Agrawal

2. Role of Mulching in Reducing Erosion
Rageswari Subudhi, Pritam Das, Abhinavkumar, Jaripiti Trivikrama Raju, Vinay Kumar Gautam, Narendra Kumar Yadav, and Mehraj U. Din Dar

3. Wind Erosion and Its Management
Rageswari Subudhi, Jaripiti Trivikrama Raju, Vinay Kumar Gautam, Abhinav Kumar, Pritam Das, Abhisek Agrawal, and Shakeel Ahmed Bhat

4. Assessing Erosion Using Hyposometric Analysis in the Subarnarekha River Basin
Supriya Singh and Ashim Ghosh

5. Runoff and Sediment Monitoring Using the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) Model
Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, Mahrukh, N. L. Kushwaha, Saad Sh. Sammen, Rawshan Ali, Ahmed Elbeltagi, Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma, and Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam

6. The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) Method for Erosion Prediction and Conservation Measures at the Air Dingin Watershed of the Upstream Part in Padang City, Indonesia
Aprizon Putra, Dedi Hermon, Indang Dewata, Eri Barlian, Triyanto, and Ahmed Elbeltagi

7. Assessing Water Erosion Using the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT)
Navneet Sharma, Rajat Mishra, P. V. Singh, Rohit Pratap Ojha, Vishnu Ji Awasthi, Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, and Owais Bhat

8. Soil Erosion Modeling Using an Artificial Neural Network
Vinay Kumar Gautam, Abhishek Agrawal, Nirmalya Kumar Nath, and Shakeel Ahmad Bhat

9. Mapping Gully Erosion Susceptibility Using the Bayesian Weight of Evidence
Dimple and Jitendra Rajput

10. Gully Erosion Susceptibility Modeling Using Machine Learning Models
Dimple, Jitendra Rajput, and Shakeel Ahmad Bhat

11. Challenges and Limitations of Using Soil Erosion Models
Shreeya Baghel, Leena Rani Mishra, Jaripiti Trivikrama Raju, and Shakeel Ahmed Bhat

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Disaster Management, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh. His major fields of expertise are natural hazard, disaster management, water quality, flood susceptibility, pollution, human health risk, climate change, sediment quality, and water resources monitoring and management. He has authored one book and four book chapters, published more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, participated in 10 conferences, and received three awards and recognitions. His research work has been funded by Begum Rokeya University under the University Grants Commission (UGC), Govt. of Bangladesh. He is a review editor of Frontiers in Water and guest editor of Frontiers in Climate and has also served as a reviewer for many international reputed journals. Dr. Islam received his PhD in Climate Change and Climate Systems from the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China.

Alban Kuriqi, PhD
Research Scientist, CERIS–Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Alban Kuriqi, PhD, is a Research Scientist at CERIS–Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering, focusing on River Restoration and Management, from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His core research interests and expertise include renewable energy, focusing on hydropower and complementarity resources, hydropower impacts, river restoration and management, e-flows, floods, droughts, climate change, fluvial hydraulics, sediment transport in open-channel flows, embankment structures, hydraulic structures, sustainable drainage systems (SuDS), long-term meteorological and hydrologic trends and variability analysis, ecohydraulics, ecohydrology, and artificial intelligence applications in the field hydraulics and hydrology. He has been awarded several scientific awards and fellowship grants. He has co-organized and been a member of five international conferences. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and five book chapters and presented over 20 communications at international conferences. He is a reviewer for over 100 international journals (i.e., ISI journals), two international conferences, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie‘s research proposal grants. Also, he develops activity as an Editor for more than 10 international journals (i.e., ISI journals).

Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, PhD
Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir, India

Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, PhD, holds a PhD in Soil and Water Engineering from the College of Agricultural Engineering at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology (SKUAST-K), India. He has worked on hydroponics technology during his PhD program. He is an author of more than 20 scientific articles and 15 book chapters and three books. He has presented and participated at numerous state, national, and international conferences, seminars, and workshops. He is also a reviewer of various international journals and holds lifetime memberships in several international organizations. He has qualified several national competitive exams including ASRB-NET, and ICAR-JRF.

Ahmed Elbeltagi, PhD
Researcher, Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Egypt

Ahmed Elbeltagi, PhD, is a Researcher at Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Mansoura University, Egypt. He was invited as a guest editor for a special issue on water pollution and treatment by the American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Simultaneously, he was invited as editorial board member of Journal of Agricultural Studies, American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Agricultural Water Management, Computers and Electronic in Agriculture, Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Hydrology, and Water Resources Management. He has published six research papers in national and international journals in water footprint, water management, and hydrologic modeling with machine learning, deep learning, GIS, and RS techniques. He earned his bachelor‘s at Mansoura University, Egypt, with merit certificate in 2013 and a master‘s in Agricultural Engineering.




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