Once a purely technical sub-discipline of hydrology, water quality management is now a social and political discipline, with concerns ranging from ensuring adequate health standards to preserving biological diversity and ecosystem integrity. This book goes beyond the technical manuals and specialty publications to provide support and guidance for the everyday decisions made by water-quality managers.
Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource addresses the rarely touched upon social, biophysical, land-use and policy considerations, which reflect the issues that confront managers and decision-makers. In a series of incisive reviews, experts address key topics in modern water resource management and case studies illustrate the successes and failures of past management efforts.
Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource develops and presents a management view requiring an awareness of: the social context of management, new ecological theories, and how policy is implemented in different situations and countries.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface vii
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Water quality management: an evolving field for changing values 1
2 History of water quality management: the problem and its science 29
3 Attitudes, goals, and management strategies 45
4 Global water resources and how they are used: the expression of goals and objectives 61
5 Developing standards from the traditions of toxicology 79
6 classification and environmental quality assessment: the search for ecologically accurate aquatic metrics 107
7 The role of scale issues in water quality management 127
8 Water and the hydrologic cycle 143
9 rivers and streams: one-way flow systems 159
10 Groundwater and water quality: water to live on 183
11 Coastal zone water quality management 207
12 Lakes and water quality impacts 229
13 Wetlands: productive, vital, cleansing, and threatened 249
14 Structuring water management goals by ecological level 267
15 Responses to stress at the ecosystem, community, population, and individual levels 287
16 Regionalization in natural resource management: Ecoregions 305
17 Effects of land use on water quality 321
18 Management of water quality in a forested landscape 345
19 Management of water quality in an agricultural landscape 371
20 Management of water quality in an urban landscape 397
21 Special issue: cultural eutrophication 425
22 Special issue: acidification of fresh water resources 445
23 Special issue: global change: a proactive management challenge 465
24 Special issue: exotics: a special biological pollutant 487
25 Cultural dimensions of water quality policy 511
26 Paradigms in motion: integrated approaches to water quality policy 535
27 Decision making in practice: case studies 561
Literature Cited and References 589
Index 607
Circa l’autore
Jim Perry and Elizabeth Leigh Vanderklein are the authors of Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource, published by Wiley.
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