Erosion Measurement, Modeling, and Management: Challenges and Solutions

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. This new book explores the erosion concerns and solutions for dealing with them. It addresses the impact and effects of changing land use and land cover on soil erosion and methods of assessing erosion, as well as ways to control different types of erosion. The use of models such as the WEPP model for estimating runoff and sediment yield, along with models 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.

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, 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, 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 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.