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Entropy theory has wide applications to a range of problems in the fields of environmental and water engineering, including river hydraulic geometry, fluvial hydraulics, water monitoring network design, river flow forecasting, floods and droughts, river network analysis, infiltration, soil moisture, sediment transport, surface water and groundwater quality modeling, ecosystems modeling, water distribution networks, environmental and water resources management, and parameter estimation. Such applications have used several different entropy formulations, such as Shannon, Tsallis, Reacutenyi Burg, Kolmogorov, Kapur, configurational, and relative entropies, which can be derived in time, space, or frequency domains. More recently, entropy-based concepts have been coupled with other theories, including copula and wavelets, to study various issues associated with environmental and water resources systems. Recent studies indicate the enormous scope and potential of entropy theory in advancing research in the fields of environmental and water engineering, including establishing and explaining physical connections between theory and reality. The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for compiling important recent and current research on the applications of entropy theory in environmental and water engineering. The contributions to this Special Issue have addressed many aspects associated with entropy theory applications and have shown the enormous scope and potential of entropy theory in advancing research in the fields of environmental and water engineering.

hydrological risk analysis --- modeling --- water level --- Poyang Lake basin --- trend --- composite multiscale sample entropy --- flood frequency analysis --- canopy flow --- precipitation --- water resources --- complex systems --- frequency analysis --- optimization --- combined forecast --- neural network forecast --- entropy spectral analysis time series analysis --- environmental engineering --- hydrometric network --- sea surface temperature --- kernel density estimation --- robustness --- turbulent flow --- entropy production --- connection entropy --- flux concentration relation --- turbulence --- tropical rainfall --- generalized gamma (GG) distribution --- multi-events --- El Niño --- joint entropy --- entropy weighting method --- Anhui Province --- changing environment --- complexity --- multiplicative cascades --- Tsallis entropy --- Hexi corridor --- coherent structures --- water resources vulnerability --- uncertainty --- variability --- flow entropy --- Hei River basin --- fuzzy analytic hierarchy process --- substitute --- crop yield --- conditional entropy production --- entropy --- flow duration curve --- mean annual runoff --- temperature --- hydrometeorological extremes --- resilience --- Loess Plateau --- information entropy --- scaling --- water distribution networks --- cross entropy --- randomness --- forewarning model --- entropy applications --- quaternary catchment --- spatio-temporal variability --- probability distribution function --- ant colony fuzzy clustering --- radar --- continuous probability distribution functions --- Shannon entropy --- informational entropy --- information --- confidence intervals --- marginal entropy --- rainfall forecast --- entropy of information --- streamflow --- power laws --- bootstrap aggregating --- maximum entropy-copula method --- spatial and dynamics characteristic --- projection pursuit --- set pair analysis --- entropy theory --- water resource carrying capacity --- entropy parameter --- precipitation frequency analysis --- principle of maximum entropy --- information theory --- stochastic processes --- network design --- complement --- cross elasticity --- climacogram --- methods of moments --- hydrology --- bagging --- principle of maximum entropy (POME) --- rainfall network --- entropy ensemble filter --- ensemble model simulation criterion --- Lagrangian function --- Beta-Lognormal model --- cross-entropy minimization --- ANN --- configurational entropy --- variation of information --- statistical scaling --- EEF method --- water monitoring --- maximum likelihood estimation --- GB2 distribution --- NDVI --- four-parameter exponential gamma distribution --- hydraulics --- spatial optimization --- Kolmogorov complexity --- bootstrap neural networks --- mutual information --- accelerating genetic algorithm --- groundwater depth --- rainfall --- tropical Pacific --- water engineering --- monthly streamflow forecasting --- ENSO --- nonlinear relation --- Bayesian technique --- non-point source pollution --- Burg entropy --- data-scarce --- scaling laws --- soil water content --- arid region --- land suitability evaluation --- information transfer

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Why do people in socialist China read and write literary works? Earlier studies in Western Sinology have approached Chinese texts from the socialist era as portraits of society, as keys to the tug-of-war of dissent, or, more recently, as pursuit of "pure art." The Uses of Literature looks broadly and empirically at these and many other "uses" of literature from the points of view of authors, editors, political authorities, and several kinds of readers. Perry Link, author of Evening Chats in Beijing, considers texts ranging from elite "misty" poetry to underground hand-copied volumes (shouchauben) and shows in concrete detail how people who were involved with literature sought to teach, learn, enjoy, explore, debate, lead, control, and resist. Using the late 1970s and early 1980s as an entree to the workings of China's "socialist literary system," the author shows how that system held sway from 1950 until around 1990, when an encroaching market economy gradually but fundamentally changed it. In addition to providing a definitive overview of how the socialist Chinese literary system worked, Link offers comparisons to the similar system in the Soviet Union. In the final chapter, the book seeks to explain how the word "good" was used and understood when applied to literary works in such systems. Combining aspects of cultural and literary studies, The Uses of Literature will reward anyone interested in the literature of modern China or how creativity is affected by a "socialist literary system."

S16/0170 --- S16/0195 --- S06/0436 --- China: Literature and theatrical art--General works on modern literature --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- China: Politics and government--Policy towards literature and art --- Chinese literature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Socialism and literature --- China --- Literature and society --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese --- Litterature et societe --- Socialisme et litterature --- Litterature chinoise --- Chinesisch --- Politik --- Gesellschaft --- Literatur --- Sozialismus --- Socialism and literature. --- Literature and society. --- Chinese literature. --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- China. --- Chinesisch. --- Akhmatova, Anna. --- Alyoshin, Samuil. --- Anhui province. --- Bai Hua. --- Bai Xianyong. --- Bell Tower Society. --- Bureau of Drama Reform. --- Cao Guanlong. --- Cao Xueqin. --- Chen Guokai. --- Chinese Academy of Sciences. --- Chinese Progress (journal). --- Christianity. --- Confucius. --- Dai minority people. --- Democracy Wall. --- Ehrenburg, Ilya. --- Fadeyev, Alexander. --- Feng Menglong. --- Gao Xiaosheng. --- Guo Moruo. --- Han Shaogong. --- Heavy Wings (Zhang Jie). --- Hiroshima. --- Hu Yaobang. --- Jiang Zilong. --- Jin Jingmai. --- Khrushchev Remembers. --- Khrushchev, Nikita. --- Kong Jiesheng. --- Li Yingru. --- Mao Zedong. --- Marxism-Leninism. --- May Fourth movement. --- Napoleon. --- Paustovsky, Konstantin. --- alienation. --- bookstores. --- bureaucratism. --- calligraphy. --- cartoonists. --- conservatives. --- corruption. --- decadence. --- democracy. --- engineering, literary. --- existentialism. --- feudalism. --- filmscripts. --- liberalism. --- neorealism. --- pluralism. --- Literature and socialism --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Sozialistisches Gesellschaftssystem --- Gesellschaftsordnung --- Kommunismus --- Sozialistische Bewegung --- Sozialist --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Sein --- Staatspolitik --- Politische Lage --- Politische Entwicklung --- Politische Situation --- Guoyu --- Kuo-yü --- Putonghua --- P'u-t'ung-hua --- Mandarin --- Guanhua --- Kuanhua --- Nationalsprache --- Sinotibetische Sprachen --- Littérature et socialisme --- Communisme et littérature --- Marxisme et littérature --- Politique et littérature --- Socialisme et culture --- Littérature --- Société et littérature --- Femmes et littérature --- Littérature et géographie --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Sociologie de la littérature --- Vie littéraire --- Féminisme et littérature --- Institution littéraire --- Psychologie sociale et littérature --- Aspect social --- 1949 --- -BNKhAU --- Chung-hua min kuo --- Jhonggu --- Khi͡atad --- Kin --- Kita --- Kitaĭskai͡a Narodnai͡a Respublika --- National Government --- Republic --- Republic of China --- Zhonghuaminguo --- Rotchina --- Zhongguo-Diguo --- Kaiserreich Zhongguo --- Zhonghua-minguo --- Chung-hua-min-kuo --- Zhonghua-Renmin-Gongheguo --- Kaiserreich China --- Shinkoku --- Chung-hua-jen-min-kung-ho-kuo --- Zhonghua --- Volksrepublik China --- Zhonghua renmin gongheguo --- République populaire de Chine --- Kytajsʹkaja Narodnaja Respublika --- Chinese People’s Republic --- Chinesen --- Taiwan