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Summary
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.
Author Notes
Bob Ferrier is the Head of the Catchment Research Group at the Macaulay Institute and an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Physical Sciences, University of Aberdeen. He is a hydrochemist whose research focuses on modeling the consequences of environmental change on water resources and on addressing the global challenge of diffuse pollution. In 2006, he was the first International Flagship Fellow for CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Programme advising on research in relation to the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.
Alan Jenkins is the Water Science Director at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and an Honorary Professor in hydrochemical modeling in the Department of Geography, University College London. His background is in water quality modeling with particular focus on the impact of diffuse pollutants on headwater streams. He is the chair of the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology and recently completed a term of office on the Bureau of the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme.
Table of Contents
| List of Contributors |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgements |
| 1 The Catchment Management ConceptRobert C. Ferrier and Alan Jenkins |
| 2 Wetland ManagementJ. Owen Mountford |
| 3 Flood ManagementRalph M. J. Schielen |
| 4 Ecological Consequences of River Channel ManagementNikolai Friberg |
| 5 Managing Agricultural Catchments to Sustain Production and Water QualityAndrew Sharpley and Marty Matlock and Louise Heathwaite and Tom Simpson and Water Stewardship |
| 6 Effluent ManagementAlan Jenkins and Robert Ferrier |
| 7 Managing Urban RunoffJ. Bryan Ellis |
| 8 Catchment to Coast Systems - Managing Microbial Pollutants for Bathing and Shellfish Harvesting WatersDavid Kay and Adrian McDonald and Carl Stapleton and Mark Wyer and John Crowther |
| 9 Irrigation Management in a Catchment ContextShahbaz Khan |
| 10 Managing Potable Water SuppliesBernard Barraque |
| 11 Managing Catchments for Hydropower GenerationHaakon Thaulow and Arve Tvede and Tor Simon Pedersen and Karin Seelos |
| 12 The Danube River - The Most International River BasinPhilip Weller |
| 13 Murray-Darling Basin - Integrated Management in a Large, Dry and Thirsty BasinSarah Ryan |
| 14 Water Resources in South East England - A Dilemma in Sustainable DevelopmentJohn C. Rodda |
| 15 Managing the Catchments of the Great Barrier ReefJane Waterhouse and Mike Grundy and Iain Gordon and Jon Brodie and James Cook and Rachel Eberhard and Dutton Park and Hugh Yorkston |
| 16 Catchment Management Case Study - Senegal RiverMike C. Acreman |
| 17 Laguna De Bay - A Tropical Lake Under PressureMaria Victoria O. Espaldon |
| 18 Chesapeake Bay Catchment Management - Lessons Learned from a Collaborative, Science-Based Approach to Water Quality RestorationTom Simpson |
| 19 The Glasgow Strategic Drainage PlanJ. Bryan Ellis |
| 20 The Ruhr Catchment (Germany) - The Contribution of Reservoirs to Integrated River Basin ManagementGerd Morgenschweis |
| 21 Evolution of River Basin Management in the Okavango System, Southern AfricaPiotr Wolski and Lars Ramberg and Lapo Magole and Dominic Mazvimavi |
| 22 Basin Management Approaches Used in a High-latitude Northern Catchment - The Mackenzie River BasinFrederick J. Wrona and Joseph M. Culp and Terry D. Prowse |
| 23 The Future for Catchment ManagementRobert C. Ferrier and Alan Jenkins and Kirsty Blackstock |
