
Diffuse Pollution
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- The Authors
- The Steering Group
- Useful websites
- 1. The nature and importance of diffuse pollution
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Water quality and pollution
- 1.3 Point source and non-point source pollution
- 1.4 Diffuse Pollution
- 1.5 Land use and transition
- 1.6 Urban diffuse sources
- 1.7 Agricultural diffuse sources
- 2. Best management practices
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Options to control pollution - why diffuse pollution requires a different approach
- 2.3 How do BMPs work?
- 2.4 Examples of structural BMPs and landscape features
- 2.5 Watershed (catchment) management
- 3. An introduction to BMPs for the built environment
- 3.1 General principles for urban surface water drainage management
- 3.2 Effects on run-off
- 3.3 Effects on receiving waters
- 3.4 Basic considerations for sustainability
- 3.5 Water quality treatment
- 3.6 Flood control and water resource management
- 3.7 The surface water management train
- 3.8 Selecting the most appropriate urban BMP treatment/control facility
- 3.9 Structural rural BMPs
- 3.10 An integrated sustainable approach to urban surface water drainage
- 3.11 Examples determining and using the unit design treatment volume
- 4. Managing diffuse pollution from urban sources: a survey of best management practice experience
- 4.1 Introduction: making best practice routine
- 4.2 Land-take for new developments
- 4.3 Maintenance of urban stormwater management facilities
- 4.4 Adoption and public ownership issues
- 4.5 Costs associated with urban BMPs
- 4.6 Retro-fitting urban BMPs
- 4.7 Integrating requirements: flood control, water quality and amenity
- 4.8 Monitoring effectiveness
- 4.9 The treatment train concept in practice
- 4.10 BMPS and biodiversity
- 5. Best management practice for agriculture
- 5.1 Pollution control standards
- 5.2 Best management practice
- 5.3 Agriculturally derived diffuse pollution
- 5.4 General
- 5.5 Nitrogen
- 5.6 Phosphorus
- 5.7 Pesticides
- 5.8 Suspended solids
- 5.9 Micro-organisms
- 5.10 Overview
- 5.11 Targeting BMPs on critical areas
- 5.12 Interaction between BMPs
- 5.13 Persuading farmers to adopt BMPs
- Appendix 5.1: Sample worked nutrient balances
- Appendix 5.2: Sample farm waste management plan
- 6. Rural best practice experience
- 6.1 Advantages and drawbacks of a BMP approach
- 6.2 Loch Leven Catchment, Scotland
- 6.3 Sny Magill Creek, Iowa
- 6.4 French Creek, California, USA
- 6.5 The Bretagne Eau Pure programme: Brittany, France
- 6.6 The use of wetlands to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution from agriculture in Sweden
- 6.7 Application of BMPs at the farm scale
- 6.8 Conclusions
- 7. Economic instruments, regulation and education
- 7.1 Introduction: proximal and ultimate causes of diffuse pollution
- 7.2 Economic instruments
- 7.3 Regulation
- 7.4 Education
- 7.5 Integrating approaches to the prevention and control of diffuse pollution
- 8. Diffuse pollution and sustainable development
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Trends
- 8.3 Restricting the use of identified problem chemicals
- 8.4 Sustainable agriculture and forestry
- 8.5 Towards more sustainability in urban drainage and development
- 8.6 Catchment management and social issues
- Appendix 1: Effectiveness of Rural BMPs
- Appendix 2: The International Stormwater BMPs Performance Database
- Glossary of diffuse pollution and best management practice
- References
- Index
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