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Handbook of Catchment Management - 9781405171229

Un libro in lingua di Ferrier Robert (EDT) Jenkins Alan (EDT) edito da John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009

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Environmental scientists from around the world analyze historical and current strategies for managing a water catchment as a single unit, in contrast to managing the constituent coastlines, lakes, wetlands, and stretches of river separately. In the first section, they discuss single-issue management approaches, examine the positive and negative impacts of each, ponder the lessons learned, and suggest visions for the future. They include flood management, managing urban runoff, potable water supplies, and hydropower generation. The second section surveys examples of management that is responding to multiple pressures, both several uses of the water itself, and pressure from external factors such as climate change and shifts in land use. Among them are the Danube River as the most international river basin, catchments of the Great Barrier Reef, the Senegal River, a collaborative and science-based approach to water quality restoration in the Chesapeake Bay catchment, the Glasgow Strategic Drainage Plan, and the catchment of the Mackenzie River Basin in high northern latitudes. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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