Water Quality Management of a Natural Resource

by Perry, Jim; Vanderklein, Elizabeth Leigh

• ISBN13: 9780865424692
• ISBN10: 0865424691
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-10-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Once a purely technical sub-discipline of hydrology, water quality management is now a social and political discipline, with concerns ranging from ensuring adequate health standards to preserving biological diversity and ecosystem integrity. This book goes beyond the technical manuals and specialty publications to provide support and guidance for the everyday decisions made by water-quality managers. Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource addresses the rarely touched upon social, biophysical, land-use and policy considerations, which reflect the issues that confront managers and decision-makers. In a series of incisive reviews, experts address key topics in modern water resource management and case studies illustrate the successes and failures of past management efforts. Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource develops and presents a management view requiring an awareness of: the social context of management, new ecological theories, and how policy is implemented in different situations and countries.

Author Biography

Jim Perry and Elizabeth Leigh Vanderklein are the authors of Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Water quality management: an evolving field for changing values	1	(28)
History of water quality management: the problem and its science	29	(16)
Attitudes, goals, and management strategies	45	(16)
Global water resources and how they are used: the expression of goals and objectives	61	(18)
Developing standards from the traditions of toxicology	79	(28)
Classification and environmental quality assessment: the search for ecologically accurate aquatic metrics	107	(20)
The role of scale issues in water quality management	127	(16)
Water and the hydrologic cycle	143	(16)
Rivers and streams: one-way flow systems	159	(24)
Groundwater and water quality: water to live on	183	(24)
Coastal zone water quality management	207	(22)
Lakes and water quality impacts	229	(20)
Wetlands: productive, vital, cleansing, and threatened	249	(18)
Structuring water management goals by ecological level	267	(20)
Responses to stress at the ecosystem, community, population, and individual levels	287	(18)
Regionalization in natural resource management: Ecoregions	305	(16)
Effects of land use on water quality	321	(24)
Management of water quality in a forested landscape	345	(26)
Management of water quality in an agricultural landscape	371	(26)
Management of water quality in an urban landscape	397	(28)
Special issue: cultural eutrophication	425	(20)
Special issue: acidification of fresh water resources	445	(20)
Special issue: global change: a proactive management challenge	465	(22)
Special issue: exotics: a special biological pollutant	487	(24)
Cultural dimensions of water quality policy	511	(24)
Paradigms in motion: integrated approaches to water quality policy	535	(26)
Decision making in practice: case studies	561	(28)
Literature Cited and References	589	(18)
Index	607