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Title Handbook of catchment management / edited by Robert C. Ferrier and Alan Jenkins
Published Chichester, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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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
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Subject Water quality management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Watershed management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Water resources development -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Water quality management
Water resources development
Watershed management
Genre/Form handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Form Electronic book
Author Ferrier, Robert C.
Jenkins, Alan
ISBN 9781444307689
1444307681
9781405171229
1405171227