Handbook of Catchment Management

by Editor: Robert Ferrier (The Macaulay Institute); Editor: Alan Jenkins (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology)

• ISBN13: 9781444307689
• ISBN10: 1444307681
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781405171229, 9781444307672
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This book addresses the fundamental requirement for an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources that crucially includes an understanding of land use and its management. In this approach the hydrological cycle links mountains to the sea, and ecosystems in rivers, groundwaters, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts forming an essential continuum directly influenced by human activity.The book provides a synthesis of current and future thinking in catchment management, and shows how the specific problems that arise in water use policy can be addressed within the context of an integrated approach to management. The book is written for advanced students, researchers, fellow academics and water sector professionals such as planners and regulators. The intention is to highlight examples and case studies that have resonance not only within natural sciences and engineering but with academics in other fields such as socio-economics, law and policy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

The Catchment Management Concept

Wetland Management

Flood Management

Ecological Consequences of River Channel Management

Managing Agricultural Catchments to Sustain Production and Water Quality

Effluent Management

Managing Urban Runoff

Catchment to Coast Systems - Managing Microbial Pollutants for Bathing and Shellfish Harvesting Waters

Irrigation Management in a Catchment Context

Managing Potable Water Supplies

Managing Catchments for Hydropower Generation

The Danube River - The Most International River Basin

Murray-Darling Basin - Integrated Management in a Large, Dry and Thirsty Basin

Water Resources in South East England - A Dilemma in Sustainable Development

Managing the Catchments of the Great Barrier Reef

Catchment Management Case Study - Senegal River

Laguna De Bay - A Tropical Lake Under Pressure

Chesapeake Bay Catchment Management - Lessons Learned from a Collaborative, Science-Based Approach to Water Quality Restoration

The Glasgow Strategic Drainage Plan

The Ruhr Catchment (Germany) - The Contribution of Reservoirs to Integrated River Basin Management

Evolution of River Basin Management in the Okavango System, Southern Africa

Basin Management Approaches Used in a High-latitude Northern Catchment - The Mackenzie River Basin

The Future for Catchment Management

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