Water Quality Processes and Policy

by Trudgill, Stephen T.; Walling, Des E.; Webb, Bruce W.

• ISBN13: 9780471985471
• ISBN10: 0471985473
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-25
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Global water issues are likely to be as important in the forseeable future as the oil crisis was in the 1970s. There is an urgent need for management to be apprised of scientific work and of the uncertainties that are associated with it, and for scientists to be able to transmit their work to management in a comprehensible way. This book explores the management of water quality in urban, rural and coastal environments. It brings together science and policy making in a timely and relevant way. As such, this book will appeal to professionals working within the water industry and also to academic institutions which have an interest in the issues relating to water quality

Author Biography

Stephen T. Trudgill, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK <BR> Des E. Walling, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK <BR> Bruce W. Webb, Department of Geography, University of Exeter, UK

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii	(4)
Foreword	xi
The Lord Lewis of Newnham
Introduction	1	(8)
Bruce W. Webb
Des E. Walling
Steve T. Trudgill
SECTION ONE: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES	9	(18)
1 Water Quality: an Emerging Global Crisis	9	(18)
Edwin D. Ongley
SECTION TWO: SCIENCE FOR POLICY	27	(94)
2 Riverine Mass Load Estimation: Paris Commission Policy, Practice and Implications for Load Estimation for a Major UK River System	27	(20)
Helen P. Jarvie
Alice J. Robson
Colin Neal
3 Changing Standards and Catchment Sources of Faecal Indicators in Nearshore Bathing Waters	47	(18)
D. Kay
M.D. Wyer
J. Crowther
J.G. O'Neill
G. Jackson
J.M. Fleisher
L. Fewtrell
4 Beach Health Risk Assessment and Pollution Perception	65	(8)
C. Nelson
A.T. Williams
G. Rees
D. Botterill
A. Richards
5 The Validation of Pesticide Leaching Models for Regulatory Purposes	73	(12)
Adrian Armstrong
Tim Jarvis
Graham Harris
John Catt
6 Water Quality Processes in Catchments: An Integrated Modelling Approach for Scenario Analysis	85	(16)
P.G. Whitehead
E. Wilson
D. Butterfield
7 Basin-Scale Nitrate Simulation Using a Minimum Information Requirement Approach	101	(20)
Paul Quinn
Steven Anthony
Eunice Lord
SECTION THREE: LINKING SCIENCE AND POLICY	121	(150)
8 Bridging the Gap Between Science and Management in Upland Catchments	121	(14)
Pauline E. Kneale
Adrian T. McDonald
9 Policy, Serendipity and Science: Algal Blooms in Australia	135	(16)
David Ingle Smith
10 Towards Groundwater Protection in the UK: Problems of Integrating Science and Policy	151	(30)
C. Soulsby
M. Chen
R. Malcolm
11 Organisational Issues and Policy Directions for Urban Pollution Management	181	(20)
J. Bryan Ellis
Bob Crabtree
12 The Economics of Water Pollution Abatement: a Case Study	201	(18)
Colin Green
13 Inorganic Farm Wastes: an Environmental Time Bomb?	219	(14)
Ian Foster
Mark Hancock
Brian Ilbery
14 Screw the Lid even Tighter? Water Pollution and the Enforcement of Environmental Regulation in Less Developed Countries	233	(24)
Stuart N. Lane
Keith S. Richards
Sudanshu Sinha
Shuang-ye Wu
15 Towards Integrated Management of Rural Drainage Basins with Particular Reference to Water Quality Issues	257	(14)
T.P. Burt
Index	271