Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems

This book introduces the general concepts and processes of hydrosphere and its systems. It explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere and includes important problems that environmental managers face today.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.

The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.

Features

• The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management

• Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more

• Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them

• Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today

In this fourth volume, Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the hydrosphere with its water resources and hydrological systems. This volume serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.

Autorentext

Brian D. Fath is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University (Maryland, USA) and a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria). He has published over 180 research papers, reports, and book chapters on environmental systems modeling, specifically in the areas of network analysis, urban metabolism, and sustainability. He has co-authored the books A New Ecology: Systems Perspective (2020), Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life-Environment Relations (2019), and Flourishing within Limits to Growth: Following Nature's Way (2015). He is also Editor-in-Chief for the journal Ecological Modelling and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Dr. Fath was the 2016 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for outstanding work in systems ecology and twice a Fulbright Distinguished Chair (Parthenope University, Naples, Italy, in 2012 and Masaryk University, Czech Republic, in 2019). In addition, he has served as Secretary General of the International Society for Ecological Modelling, Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in the Community Surface Modeling Dynamics System, and member and past Chair of the Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality.

Sven E. Jørgensen (1934-2016) was a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Copenhagen University. He earned a doctorate of engineering in environmental technology and a doctorate of science in ecological modeling. He was an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University (Portugal) and at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He was Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Modelling from the journal's inception in 1975 until 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (2013) and Encyclopedia of Ecology (2008). In 2004, Dr. Jorgensen was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize and the Prigogine Medal. He was awarded the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2007, he received the Pascal Medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He published over 350 papers and has edited or written over 70 books. Dr. Jorgensen gave popular and well-received lectures and courses in ecological modeling, ecosystem theory, and ecological engineering worldwide.

Klappentext

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems. Features The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food-energy-water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today In this fourth volume, Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the hydrosphere with its water resources and hydrological systems. This volume serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.

Inhalt

Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities 1. Aquatic Communities: Pesticide Impacts 2. Coastal Water: Pollution 3. Groundwater: Mining Pollution 4. Groundwater: Nitrogen Fertilizer Contamination 5. Groundwater: Pesticide Contamination 6. Lakes and Reservoirs: Pollution 7. Mines: Acidic Drainage Water 8. Rivers and Lakes: Acidification 9. Rivers: Pollution 10. Sea: Pollution Section II: COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management 11. Rain Water: Harvesting 12. Water Harvesting 13. Groundwater: Saltwater Intrusion 14. Irrigation Systems: Water Conservation 15. Irrigation: Erosion 16. Irrigation: River Flow Impact 17. Irrigation: Saline Water 18. Irrigation: Sewage Effluent Use 19. Irrigation: Soil Salinity 20. Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems 21. Runoff Water 22. Salt Marsh Resilience and Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise and Other Environmental Impacts 23. The Evolution of Water Resources Management 24. Wastewater and Water Utilities 25. Wastewater: Municipal 26. Water Quality and Quantity: Globalization 27. Water: Cost 28. Wetlands: Methane Emission Section III: CSS: Case Studies of Environmental Management 29. Alexandria Lake Maryut: Integrated Environmental Management 30. Aral Sea Disaster 31. Chesapeake Bay 32. Giant Reed (Arundo donax): Streams and Water Resources 33. Inland Seas and Lakes: Central Asia Case Study 34. Oil Pollution: The Baltic Sea 35. Status of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the GMB Plain 36. Yellow River **Section IV: DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological …