Environmental Flows (eBook)

Saving Rivers in the Third Millennium

Angela Arthington (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
424 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95345-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Environmental Flows describes the timing, quality, and quantity of water flows required to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the human well-being and livelihoods that depend upon them. It answers crucial questions about the flow of water within and between different kinds of ecosystems. What happens when the flow or the availability of water is curtailed or diverted, either naturally or by human activity? How will climate change alter the availability of water and impact aquatic ecosystems? Methodological developments from the simplest hydrological formulas to large-scale frameworks that inform water management make this book a must-read for water managers and freshwater and estuarine ecologists contending with ever-changing conditions influencing the flow of water.

Inhalt

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. River Values and Threats
2. Global Hydrology, Climate, and River Flow Regimes
3. Catchments, Drainage Networks, and Resource Regimes
4. River Ecology, the Natural Flow Regime Paradigm, and Hydroecological Principles
5. Effects of Catchment Change and River-Corridor Engineering
6. History of Water Control and Dam Impacts
7. Effects of Dams on Sediment, Thermal, and Chemical Regimes
8. Effects of Dams on Habitat and Aquatic Biodiversity
9. Introduction to Environmental Flow Methods
10. Hydraulic Rating and Habitat Simulation Methods
11. Flow Protection Methods
12. Flow Restoration Methods
13. Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration (ELOHA)
14. Environmental Flow Relationships, Models, and Applications
15. Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems and Threats
16. Sustaining Groundwater-Dependent Ecosystems
17. Wetlands, Threats, and Water Requirements
18. Estuaries, Threats, and Flow Requirements
19. Setting Limits to Hydrologic Alteration
20. Implementing and Monitoring Environmental Flows
21. Legislation and Policy
22. Adapting to Climate Change

Appendix: The Brisbane Declaration (2007)
Literature Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Freshwater Ecology Series
• Reihe/Serie: Freshwater Ecology Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Aquatic Ecosystems • biodiversity • books about science • books for nature lovers • climate change • coffee table books • different kinds of ecosystems • discussion books • distraction for kids • easy to read • Educational Books • estuarine ecologists • gifts for kids • Go Green • importance of nature • informative books • learning while reading • leisure reads • saving the world • science and math • sustaining the environment • sustaining water flows • Water • Water Management • water managers
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95345-2 / 0520953452
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95345-1 / 9780520953451