Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a7d84d/handbook_of_catchm) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “Handbook of Catchment Management” to their offering.

This book addresses the fundamental requirement for an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources that crucially includes an understanding of land use and its management. In this approach the hydrological cycle links mountains to the sea, and ecosystems in rivers, groundwaters, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts forming an essential continuum directly influenced by human activity.

The book provides a synthesis of current and future thinking in catchment management, and shows how the specific problems that arise in water use policy can be addressed within the context of an integrated approach to management. The book is written for advanced students, researchers, fellow academics and water sector professionals such as planners and regulators. The intention is to highlight examples and case studies that have resonance not only within natural sciences and engineering but with academics in other fields such as socio-economics, law and policy.

The contents of the book cover:

1. The Catchment Management Concept
2. Wetland Management
3. Flood Management
4. Ecological Consequences of River Channel Management
5. Managing Agricultural Catchments to Sustain Production and Water Quality
6. Effluent Management
7. Managing Urban Runoff
8. Catchment to Coast Systems – Managing Microbial Pollutants for Bathing and Shellfish Harvesting Waters
9. Irrigation Management in a Catchment Context
10. Managing Potable Water Supplies
11. Managing Catchments for Hydropower Generation
12. The Danube River – The Most International River Basin
13. Murray-Darling Basin – Integrated Management in a Large, Dry and Thirsty Basin
14. Water Resources in South East England – A Dilemma in Sustainable Development
15. Managing the Catchments of the Great Barrier Reef
16. Catchment Management Case Study – Senegal River 17. Laguna De Bay – A Tropical Lake Under Pressure
17. Chesapeake Bay Catchment Management – Lessons Learned from a Collaborative, Science-Based Approach to Water Quality Restoration
18. The Glasgow Strategic Drainage Plan
19. The Ruhr Catchment (Germany)
20. Evolution of River Basin Management in the Okavango System, Southern Africa
21. Basin Management Approaches Used in a High-latitude Northern Catchment
22. The Future for Catchment Management

Authors:

Bob Ferrier is the Head of the Catchment Research Group at the Macaulay Institute and an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Physical Sciences, University of Aberdeen. He is a hydrochemist whose research focuses on modeling the consequences of environmental change on water resources and on addressing the global challenge of diffuse pollution. In 2006, he was the first International Flagship Fellow for CSIRO’s Water for a Healthy Country Programme advising on research in relation to the protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

Alan Jenkins is the Water Science Director at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and an Honorary Professor in hydrochemical modeling in the Department of Geography, University College London. His background is in water quality modeling with particular focus on the impact of diffuse pollutants on headwater streams. He is the chair of the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology and recently completed a term of office on the Bureau of the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme.

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