Description |
1 online resource (xi, 540 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Handbook of Catchment Management; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1: The Catchment Management Concept; 2: Wetland Management; 3: Flood Management; 4: Ecological Consequences of River Channel Management; 5: Managing Agricultural Catchments to Sustain Production and Water Quality; 6: Effluent Management; 7: Managing Urban Runoff; 8: Catchment to Coast Systems -- Managing Microbial Pollutants for Bathing and Shellfish Harvesting Waters; 9: Irrigation Management in a Catchment Context; 10: Managing Potable Water Supplies; 11: Managing Catchments for Hydropower Generation |
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 addres |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Water quality management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Watershed management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Water resources development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Water quality management
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Water resources development
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Watershed management
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Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Ferrier, Robert C.
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Jenkins, Alan
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ISBN |
9781444307689 |
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1444307681 |
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9781405171229 |
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1405171227 |
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