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COMMON SENSE AND OTHER HERESIES: Selected

Papers on Hydrology and Water Resources
Engineering

Vít Klemeš

To cite this article: Vít Klemeš (2000) COMMON SENSE AND OTHER HERESIES: Selected
Papers on Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering , Canadian Water Resources Journal /
Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, 25:1, 108-108, DOI: 10.4296/cwrj2501108

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Published online: 23 Jan 2013.

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 COMMON SENSE AND OTHER HERESIES:
Selected Papers on Hydrology

and

Water Resources Engineering

by Vit Klemei

Vit Kleme5 has had a brilliant career contributing to fundamental aspects of the
science ofhydrology and the application ofhydrology to water resources engineering.
His papers are written in a lucid style and challenge common misconceptions and
current directions in the practice of hydrology. The Canadian Water Resources
Association is proud to bring together twenty of his most significant papers that have
had an impact on hydrologists worldwide.
In recognition of the practical yet philosophical aspects of this book, it will be
called Common Sense and Other Heresies. The book will bring together keynote
scientific papers that have been previously published in a wide variety of international
conference proceedings and technical journals, but have not been readily available to
a Canadian audience. The papers, selected by the Editor, David Sellars, will include
the philosophy of hydrologic modeliing, frequency analysis of floods and droughts,
risk analysis and analysis of geophysical time series. The finaI chapter, that brings
together all the threads of the book will be called Climate Change and Impacts and
will include three seminal papers:

' Geophysical Time Series and Climatic Change

. Sensitivity of Water Resources Systems to Climatic Variability
. Design Implications of Climate Change

The latter paper will be of particular interest to engineers and planners responsible
for decisions regarding water supply, protection ofaquatic resources and other water
resources issues, as it provides guidance on how to include climate change in the
planning of projects and in water resources management in general.
The planned publication date of this critically acclaimed collection of papers is
lune 2000.
Vit Kleme5 started his career as a hydraulic engineer and worked mostly in
design and planning of dams and hydropower plants. Through his work, he became
interested in the theory of water resources systems in which he did his doctoral
research in the early 1960s. Since then he pursued a research career in hydrology
and its applications to water resources engineering. He has authored about 150
publications and has been recognizedby a number of awards, among them the
International Hydrology Prize from the International Association of Hydrological
Sciences in 1995, the RayK. LinsleyAward from the American Institute of Hydrology
in 1995 and the Ven Te Chow Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers
in 1998. He is currently a Water Resources Consultant and lives in Victoria, BC.

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