Description
WILEY INDIA Water Quality Management Of A Natural Resources by PERRY J
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Water quality management: an evolving field for changing values
2 History of water quality management: the problem and its science
3 Attitudes, goals and management strategies
4 Global water resources and how they are used: the expression of goals and objectives
5 Developing standards from the traditions of toxicology
6 Classification and environmental quality assessment: the search for ecologically accurate aquatic metrics
7 The role of scale issues in water quality management
8 Water and the hydrologic cycle
9 Rivers and streams: one-way flow systems
10 Groundwater and water quality: water to live on
11 Coastal zone water quality management
12 Lakes and water quality impacts
13 Wetlands: productive, vital, cleansing and threatened
14 Structuring water management goals by ecological level
15 Responses to stress at the ecosystem, community, population and individual levels
16 Regionalization in natural resource management: Ecoregions
17 Effects of land use on water quality
18 Management of water quality in a forested landscape
19 Management of water quality in an agricultural landscape
20 Management of water quality in an urban landscape
21 Special issue: cultural eutrophication
22 Special issue: acidification of fresh water resources
23 Special issue: global change: a proactive management challenge
24 Special issue: exotics: a special biological pollutant
25 Cultural dimensions of water quality policy
26 Paradigms in motion: integrated approaches to water quality policy
27 Decision making in practice: case studies
Literature Cited and References
Index