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BEL Belgium & GDL --- Belgium --- Wallonia --- vegetation --- river management --- ecosystem management
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BEL Belgium & GDL --- Belgium --- Wallonia --- vegetation --- river management --- ecosystem management
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BEL Belgium & GDL --- Belgium --- Wallonia --- vegetation --- river management --- ecosystem management
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duplicates available --- dead periodical --- The Netherlands --- Flanders --- Schelde --- landscape management --- river management
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LGA Landscape & Garden Architecture --- thesis --- ecological management --- landscape ecology --- river management
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CD Multimedia CD-ROM --- CD-ROM --- Germany --- nature conservation --- bioconservation --- water management --- river basin --- river management
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Large river systems throughout the planet have been dramatically transformed due to river control projects such as large dams and embankments. Unlike other major human impacts like anthropogenic climate change, the alteration of river systems has been deliberate and planned by a small, powerful set of experts. Taking India as a case study, this book examines the way experts transform the planet through their discourse by their advocacy of river projects. This book identifies the spatial aspects of the norms through which the ideal river and the deficient river in need of control are produced. The role of governmental rationality in explaining the seemingly irrational and counter-productive effects of large projects like Kosi river embankments is considered. Finally using autobiographical material, the subjectivity of expert advice is examined, questioning its presumed objectivity. By examining the different subjective stances arising from the same body of expertise, this book discusses the consequences this has for river control specifically, and for the relation between expertise and environmental change in general.
Ecosystem management -- India -- Pūrnia (District). --- Ecosystem management -- Kosi River Watershed (Nepal and India). --- River management. --- River engineering --- Mechanical Engineering --- Geography --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Hydraulic Engineering --- Physical Geography --- Geography. --- Physical geography. --- Engineering, River --- Environmental management. --- Political science. --- Physical Geography. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Earth System Sciences. --- Political Science. --- Hydraulic engineering --- Water resources development --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management
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This open access book surveys the frontier of scientific river research and provides examples to guide management towards a sustainable future of riverine ecosystems. Principal structures and functions of the biogeosphere of rivers are explained; key threats are identified, and effective solutions for restoration and mitigation are provided. Rivers are among the most threatened ecosystems of the world. They increasingly suffer from pollution, water abstraction, river channelization and damming. Fundamental knowledge of ecosystem structure and function is necessary to understand how human activities interfere with natural processes and which interventions are feasible to rectify this. Modern water legislation strives for sustainable water resource management and protection of important habitats and species. However, decision makers would benefit from more profound understanding of ecosystem degradation processes and of innovative methodologies and tools for efficient mitigation and restoration. The book provides best-practice examples of sustainable river management from on-site studies, European-wide analyses and case studies from other parts of the world. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of aquatic ecology, river system functioning, conservation and restoration, to postgraduate students, to institutions involved in water management, and to water related industries.
Life sciences. --- Ecosystems. --- Aquatic ecology. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology. --- Nature conservation. --- Marine sciences. --- Freshwater. --- Life Sciences. --- Freshwater & Marine Ecology. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Nature Conservation. --- Marine & Freshwater Sciences. --- Fresh waters --- Freshwater --- Freshwaters --- Inland water --- Inland waters --- Water --- Ocean sciences --- Aquatic sciences --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Nature conservation --- Aquatic biology --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Conservation --- Aquatic biology. --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Marine Sciences. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Hydrobiology --- Water biology --- Aquatic ecology . --- Ecology . --- Ecosystem Services --- Freshwater Science --- River Restoration --- Sustainable River Management --- Aquatic Ecology --- Environmental Management --- Water Pollution
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This book is a compilation of original research articles that apply a variety of techniques to identify and evaluate water resource management policies. These papers cover a wide range of topics and methodologies applied across the world, from a local to a continental scope. They illustrate open challenges in water resource management, such as the quantitative assessment of policy impacts, trade-off analyses, understanding the water–energy–food–environment nexus, collaborative model development, stakeholder engagement, formalizing social interactions, or improving the theoretical understanding of complex adaptive systems. Therefore, this book is a representation of research areas that have emerged from the origins of water resource systems analysis, seeking to improve the way in which water policy is formulated and implemented.
Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- climate change --- water resources --- water availability --- uncertainty --- WAAPA model --- Western Europe --- water quality --- background pollutants --- export coefficient model --- chemical oxygen demand --- ammonia nitrogen --- water resource accessibility --- spatial pattern --- coupling coordination degree --- water resource management --- Southwest China --- pump efficiency --- water distribution systems --- water supply systems --- optimization --- design policies --- design --- BMPs --- Revised GWLF --- NSGAII --- hydrological dam safety --- initial reservoir level --- maximum conservation level --- water conservation volume --- flood control volume --- yield reliability --- regular operation --- stochastic methodology --- water management --- resources --- system dynamics --- drought management --- drought impacts --- urban public services --- inter-administrative cooperation --- border studies --- internal borders --- river municipalities --- freshwater health --- river chief system --- ecological integrity --- social services --- water governance --- national standard --- risk assessment --- water-saving --- set pair analysis --- China --- fluvial ecosystems --- hydropeaking --- InSTHAn tool --- short-term flow regimes --- subdaily flows --- sustainable river management --- droughts --- hydrological risk --- agri-food sector --- event study --- financial markets --- BOVESPA --- stormwater --- industrial facilities --- run off --- self-reported data --- multifunctional water source area --- ecotourism, people with different stakeholders --- balanced decision-making --- sponge city --- fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method --- water resource carrying capacity --- gray correlation analysis --- multiple linear regression models --- water environment capacity --- reservoir performance --- water resources systems --- participatory modeling --- river basin planning --- watershed management --- water scarcity --- water conflicts --- Robust Decision Support --- WEAP --- Integrated Water Resources Management --- Bolivia --- climate change --- water resources --- water availability --- uncertainty --- WAAPA model --- Western Europe --- water quality --- background pollutants --- export coefficient model --- chemical oxygen demand --- ammonia nitrogen --- water resource accessibility --- spatial pattern --- coupling coordination degree --- water resource management --- Southwest China --- pump efficiency --- water distribution systems --- water supply systems --- optimization --- design policies --- design --- BMPs --- Revised GWLF --- NSGAII --- hydrological dam safety --- initial reservoir level --- maximum conservation level --- water conservation volume --- flood control volume --- yield reliability --- regular operation --- stochastic methodology --- water management --- resources --- system dynamics --- drought management --- drought impacts --- urban public services --- inter-administrative cooperation --- border studies --- internal borders --- river municipalities --- freshwater health --- river chief system --- ecological integrity --- social services --- water governance --- national standard --- risk assessment --- water-saving --- set pair analysis --- China --- fluvial ecosystems --- hydropeaking --- InSTHAn tool --- short-term flow regimes --- subdaily flows --- sustainable river management --- droughts --- hydrological risk --- agri-food sector --- event study --- financial markets --- BOVESPA --- stormwater --- industrial facilities --- run off --- self-reported data --- multifunctional water source area --- ecotourism, people with different stakeholders --- balanced decision-making --- sponge city --- fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method --- water resource carrying capacity --- gray correlation analysis --- multiple linear regression models --- water environment capacity --- reservoir performance --- water resources systems --- participatory modeling --- river basin planning --- watershed management --- water scarcity --- water conflicts --- Robust Decision Support --- WEAP --- Integrated Water Resources Management --- Bolivia
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