Adaptive Water Management: Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development

Farideh Delavari-Edalat has degrees including B.Sc. and M.Sc. and Ph.D., all related to the life sciences and environment management. She has over 15 years of experiences in industrial consultancy and academia through working in the areas related to the environment/water management. She received her Ph.D., in the area of adaptive environment management, focusing on aid to achieve a sustainable environment. She has published a number of papers in the areas of environment and water management in international peer reviewed journals and international conference proceedings. She has conducted various case studies and undertaken questionnaire designs, data collection including both quantitative and qualitative data using a variety of analytical methods and software packages for modelling and data analysis, and running behavioral experiments such as public water consumption behavior in developing countries and people attitude towards trees in urban areas in UK.

M. Reza Abdi has a background in manufacturing engineering and industrial management, and holds a PhD in manufacturing engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), and an M.Phil in manufacturing engineering and Industrial management from Liverpool University. Reza has over 15 years of teaching and industrial experience in various universities and manufacturing companies. His specialist areas are operations management, manufacturing system design, decision support systems, analytical hierarchical process (AHP), analytical network process (ANP), information systems, environment management, computer modelling, systems dynamics, simulation and fuzzy logic. He has published various articles and five book chapters in the areas of operations and information management, and been a chair person and a member of program committees of a number of international conferences in the area of operations and information management, and environment management. He has been a principal member of the Course Approval and Review Team (CART) at Bradford University.