
Managing Urban Rivers
From Planning to Practice
- 1st Edition - September 23, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Victor R. Shinde, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Uday Bhonde, Hitesh Vaidya
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 7 0 3 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 0 6 3 - 7
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Request a sales quoteManaging Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice captures the different facets of river management required for integrating rivers within the development landscape of cities in a sustainable manner. Sections cover the entire spectrum of urban river management, from planning to actual on-the-ground implementation, providing a one-stop destination for knowledge on urban river management. Edited by a team of four experts with practical experience in this domain, the different chapters of the book are authored by eminent scholars and practitioners with expertise in specific areas of urban river management.
Urban rivers and their management is a hot topic as governments across the world are focusing on this aspect, especially since it has direct implications for SDG target 6.6, which aims to “protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes”.
- Presents practical, global case studies in almost every chapter
- Provides recommendations for best practices, based on lessons from different successful case studies, as well as the expert insights of the authors
- Features contributions from global experts for a unique and specialized approach to the topic of urban rivers
- Cities and rivers: a symbiotic relationship
- Urban river management:scope and spectrum
- Mainstreaming ‘River-Thinking’into a city’s long-term vision
- Mainstreaming river thinking into urban planning
- Understanding riverfront developments: through time, function, and drivers for transformation
- Urban wetlands and water bodies
- Enhancing and conserving urban biodiversity
- Urban river pollution control
- Enriching and maintaining the riparian buffer zone
- Addressing urban extensions on floodplains
- Economics of sustainable urban river management
- Students breaking barriers: workshops as brokers in riverfront collaboration and design
- Nine steps towards rehabilitation and restoration of degraded urban rivers
- Urban river governance
- Urban river health assessment and management
- Citizen participation in urban river management
- Urban river management by innovative monitoring
- Future considerations for managing urban rivers
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 23, 2023
- No. of pages (Paperback): 376
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323857031
- eBook ISBN: 9780323910637
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Victor R. Shinde
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Rajiv Ranjan Mishra
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Uday Bhonde
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