Water for the Environment: From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management provides a holistic view of environmental water management, offering clear links across disciplines that allow water managers to face mounting challenges.
The book highlights current challenges and potential solutions, helping define the future direction for environmental water management. In addition, it includes a significant review of current literature and state of knowledge, providing a one-stop resource for environmental water managers.
- Presents a multidisciplinary approach that allows water managers to make connections across related disciplines, such as hydrology, ecology, law, and economics
- Links science to practice for environmental flow researchers and those that implement and manage environmental water on a daily basis
- Includes case studies to demonstrate key points and address implementation issues
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Elsevier Science & Techn.
ISBN-13
978-0-12-803945-8 (9780128039458)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Section I: Introduction1. Introduction
Section II: History and context of environmental flows2. Drivers and social context3. Understanding hydrological alteration4. Ecological effects of hydrologic alteration5. Geomorphological change
Section III: Vision and objectives for the river system6. Impacts of Hydrological Alterations on Water Quality7. Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Flows Management8. Environmental flows and natural capital - free-flowing ecosystem services9. Environmental water management's cultural challenge10. Environmental flow objectives and targets
Section IV: How much water is needed? Tools for environmental water development11. Evolution of flow principles and methodologies12. Tools for sediment13. Physical habitat modelling and ecohydrological tools14. Ecological response modelling15. Determining and addressing uncertainty
Section V: Environmental water within Water Resource Planning16. Water Budgets to Inform Sustainable Resource Management17. Mechanisms to allocate environmental water18. Rebalancing the system - Acquiring water and trade19. Environmental Water Organizations and Institutional Settings20. Management options informed by hydrological drivers21. Managing Infrastructure to Maintain Natural Functions in Developed Rivers22. Environmental water and integrated catchment management
Section VI: Active management of environmental water23. Planning the use of environmental water24. Operational issues25. Monitoring, evaluation and adaptive management of environmental flows26. Performance Management: A Multi-criteria Policy Toolkit
Section VII: Remaining challenges and way forward27. Where to from here
