Ferrier / Jenkins Handbook of Catchment Management

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0768-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 560 Seiten, E-Book

This book addresses the fundamental requirement for aninterdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing andprotecting water resources that crucially includes anunderstanding of land use and its management. In thisapproach the hydrological cycle links mountains to the sea, andecosystems in rivers, groundwaters, lakes, wetlands, estuaries andcoasts forming an essential continuum directly influenced by humanactivity.
The book provides a synthesis of current and future thinking incatchment management, and shows how the specific problems thatarise in water use policy can be addressed within the context of anintegrated approach to management. The book is written for advancedstudents, researchers, fellow academics and water sectorprofessionals such as planners and regulators. The intention is tohighlight examples and case studies that have resonance not onlywithin natural sciences and engineering but with academicsin other fields such as socio-economics, law and policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferrier, Robert

Ferrier, Robert C.

Jenkins, Alan

Über Autor(innen)

Bob Ferrier is the Head of the Catchment Research Group atthe Macaulay Institute and an Honorary Research Fellow in theCollege of Physical Sciences, University of Aberdeen. He is ahydrochemist whose research focuses on modeling the consequences ofenvironmental change on water resources and on addressing theglobal challenge of diffuse pollution. In 2006, he was the firstInternational Flagship Fellow for CSIRO's Water for a HealthyCountry Programme advising on research in relation to theprotection of the Great Barrier Reef.
Alan Jenkins is the Water Science Director at the NERCCentre for Ecology and Hydrology and an Honorary Professor inhydrochemical modeling in the Department of Geography, UniversityCollege London. His background is in water quality modeling withparticular focus on the impact of diffuse pollutants on headwaterstreams. He is the chair of the UK Committee for National andInternational Hydrology and recently completed a term of office onthe Bureau of the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme.