Water Quality [Elektronisk resurs] : Management of a Natural Resource.

• Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 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 Tradition 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 Cycle9: 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 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 Landscape20: 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;. 

• 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 decis 

Ämnesord

Water quality management. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HC79.W32P44 1996 (LCC)

333.91363.61 (DDC)

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