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Coastal Zone Regulation, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Coastal Pollution and Environmental
Impact Assessment.
Bruun, P., Port Engineering, Vol. I &II.
Shore Protection Manual, U.S.Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center,
U.S.Govt. Printing office, Washington D.C., Vol. 1 & 2. 1984.
Ippen A.T., Estuary and Coast line Hydrodynamics McGraw Hill, 1966
AM 435 PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL OF LARGE PROJECTS (3-0-0) 3
Introduction to performance appraisal, unique features of large projects, technical parameters, economical
parameters, social parameters, environmental parameters, Evolving normalized index for performance
appraisal, comparative analysis of different methods. Decision making under risk and uncertainty, Theory
of errors, sensitivity analysis - Brief introduction, Specific case studies
Taha, HA,Operation Research, Prentice Hall, 6th Edition, 1997.
Luce, RD and Raiffa,H. Games and Decisions, Dover, New York, 1989.
Lorry W. Canter, Handbook of Environmenal Impact Assessment, Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford,
UK,1999.
Gupta, BI and Gupta A. Construction Management Machinery and Accounts. Standard Publishers,2005.
AM 436 DISASTER MANAGEMENT (3–0–0) 3
Types of Disasters, its Dimensions, Impact of Disasters, Forecasting, Role of Remote Sensing and
Geographical Information System in Disaster Management, Vulnerability, Disaster Reduction Strategies,
Multi Hazard Mapping, Financial Management, Losses from Global Disasters and Expenses in
Reconstruction and Retrofitting of Structures, Role of NGO, Government Bodies and Public, Social and
Economic Development of Disaster Prone areas. Emergency Planning
Ghosh, G.K. Disaster Management, APH Publishing Co., New Delhi, 2006.
Ghosh, S.G. Natural disaster management: New technologies and opportunities, ICFAI University Press,
New Delhi,2008.
Institute of Engineers, World Congress on Natural Disaster Mitigation, Vol I & II, 2004.
AM 437 DECISION MAKING UNDER RISK AND UNCERTAINTY (3-0-0) 3
Decision making process, elements of leadership, planning and strategic management, Management of
public organization. Decision making using Risk Theories, Different models of decision making under
uncertainty. Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analysis in distributed parameter systems.
Taha, HA,Operation Research, Prentice Hall, 6th Edition, 1997.
Joseph L. Masij, Essential of Management, McGraw Hill, 1996.
AM 438 RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (3-0-0) 3
Integrated rural development, rural growth and economy, need for rural infrastructure, cooperative
movement. Rural water supply schemes- Surface water and groundwater systems, components and design
principles, economic analysis. Rural sanitation- requirements, methods, design features. Rural roads and
communication facilities.
Twort, AC, DD Ratanayaka and MJ Brandt. Water Supply, AIWA Pub., 5th edition, New York,2000.
GS Birdi and JS Birdie , Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering, Dhanpat Rai & Sons, New Delhi, 1998.
AM 439 INVERSE MODELING (3-0-0) 3
Lumped and distributed systems, introduction to inverse modeling, conventional parameter estimation
procedures, OLS, WLS and Gauss Newton Algorithm for parameter estimation, Parameter perturbation,
Sensitivity analysis, Role of sensitivity analysis in parameter identifiability, uniqueness and stability.
Linear error statistics, uncertainty analysis in inverse modeling, Role of redundancy in data, handling of
noisy and bad data in inverse modelling, Role of spatial and temporal data in parameter uncertainty,
Grouping of parameters, effect of zonation in distributed models.
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