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Water for the Environment
From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management
- 1st Edition - August 16, 2017
- Editors: Avril Horne, Angus Webb, Michael Stewardson, Brian Richter, Mike Acreman
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 9 0 7 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 9 4 5 - 8
Water for the Environment: From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management provides a holistic view of environmental water management, offering clear links across di… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWater for the Environment: From Policy and Science to Implementation and Management provides a holistic view of environmental water management, offering clear links across disciplines that allow water managers to face mounting challenges.
The book highlights current challenges and potential solutions, helping define the future direction for environmental water management. In addition, it includes a significant review of current literature and state of knowledge, providing a one-stop resource for environmental water managers.
- Presents a multidisciplinary approach that allows water managers to make connections across related disciplines, such as hydrology, ecology, law, and economics
- Links science to practice for environmental flow researchers and those that implement and manage environmental water on a daily basis
- Includes case studies to demonstrate key points and address implementation issues
Water resource managers, environmental water managers, water practitioners, integrated catchment managers
Section 1: Introduction
1. The Environmental Water Management Cycle
Avril Horne, Erin O'Donnell, James Angus Webb, Mike Jonathon Stewardson, Mike Acreman and Brian Richter
Section 2: History and context of environmental flows
2. Drivers and social context
Mike Acreman, Sharad Kumar Jain, Matthew Peter McCartney and Ian Overton
3. Understanding hydrological alteration
Mike Jonathon Stewardson, Mike Acreman, Justin Francis Costelloe, Tim D. Fletcher, Keirnan James Andrew Fowler, Avril Horne, Gaisheng Liu, Michael E. McClain and Murray Peel
4. Environmental and ecological effects of flow alteration in surface water ecosystems
Robert Rolls and Nick Bond
5. Geomorphological effects of flow alteration on rivers
Geoff J. Vietz and Brian Leslie Finlayson
6. Impacts of Hydrological Alterations on Water Quality
Meenakshi Arora, Roser Casas-Mulet, Justin Francis Costelloe, Tim John Peterson, Alexander Heinrich McCluskey and Mike Jonathon Stewardson
Section 3: Vision and objectives for the river system
7. Stakeholder engagement in environmental water management
John Campbell Conallin, Declan Hearne, Chris Dickens and Catherine Allan
8. Environmental water regimes and natural capital – free-flowing ecosystem
David John Gilvear, Lindsay C. Beevers, Jay O'Keeffe and Mike Acreman
9. How much water does a culture need? Environmental water management’s cultural challenge and indigenous responses
Sue Jackson
10. Visions, objectives, targets and goals
Avril Horne, Christopher Konrad, James Angus Webb and Mike Acreman
Section 4: How much water is needed – tools for environmental flow assessment
11. Evolution of environmental flows assessment science, principles and methodologies
LeRoy Poff, Angela Arthington and Rebecca Elizabeth Tharme
12. Tools for sediment management in rivers
David E. Rheinheimer and Sarah M. Yarnell
13. Physical habitat modelling and ecohydrological tools
Nicolas Lamouroux, Christoph Hauer, Mike Jonathon Stewardson and LeRoy Poff
14. Models of Ecological Responses to Flow Regime Change to Inform Environmental Flow Assessments
James Angus Webb, Angela Arthington and Julian Olden
15. Uncertainty and environmental water
Lisa Lowe, Joanna Szemis and James Angus Webb
Section 5: Environmental water within Water Resource Planning
16. Water budgets to inform sustainable water management
Brian Richter and Stuart Orr
17. Mechanisms to allocate environmental water
Avril Horne, Erin O'Donnell and Rebecca Elizabeth Tharme
18. Rebalancing the system - Acquiring water and trade
Claire Settre and Sarah Ann Wheeler
19. Environmental Water Organizations and Institutional Settings
Erin O'Donnell and Dustin Garrick
20. Management options to address diffuse causes of hydrologic alteration
Avril Horne, Carlo Roland Morris, Keirnan James Andrew Fowler, Justin Francis Costelloe and Tim D. Fletcher
21. Managing Infrastructure to Maintain Natural Functions in Developed Rivers
Gregory A. Thomas
22. Environmental water and integrated catchment management
Mike Jonathon Stewardson, Wenxiu Shang, Giri R. Kattel and James Angus Webb
Section 6: Active management of environmental water
23. Planning for the active management of environmental water
Jane Doolan, Beth Ashworth and Jody Swirepik
24. Operational issues
Benjamin Docker and Hilary Johnson
25. Principles for monitoring, evaluation and adaptive management of environmental water regimes
James Angus Webb, Robyn Janet Watts, Catherine Allan and Andrew Warner
26. Defining success: a multi-criteria approach to guide evaluation and investment
Erin O'Donnell and Dustin Garrick
Section 7: Remaining challenges and way forward
27. Where to from here
Avril Horne, Erin O'Donnell, Mike Acreman, Michael E. McClain, LeRoy Poff, James Angus Webb, Mike Jonathon Stewardson, Nick Bond, Brian Richter, Angela Arthington, Rebecca Elizabeth Tharme, Dustin Garrick, Katherine Daniell, John Campbell Conallin, Gregory A. Thomas, and Barry Thomas Hart
- No. of pages: 758
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: August 16, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128039076
- eBook ISBN: 9780128039458
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Angus Webb
Dr. Angus Webb is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He originally trained as a marine ecologist before moving into the study and restoration of large-scale environmental problems in freshwater systems. Much of his research centers on improving the use of the existing knowledge and data for such problems. To this end he has developed innovative approaches to synthesizing information from the literature, eliciting knowledge from experts, and analyzing large-scale data sets. His teaching at the University of Melbourne is focused on monitoring and evaluation in aquatic systems.
Angus is heavily involved in the monitoring and evaluation of ecological outcomes from environmental water delivered under the Australian government’s Murray-Darling Basin Plan, leading the program for the Goulburn River, Victoria, and advising on data analysis at the basin scale. Angus has authored over 100 publications in the international literature, including 58 journal papers. In addition to this book, he is currently editing two journal special issues on different aspects of environmental water science and management, and is an Associate Editor for the journal Environmental Management. He was awarded the 2013 prize for Building Knowledge in Waterway Management by the River Basin Management Society in Australia, and the 2012 Australian Society for Limnology Early Career Achievement Award.
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Michael Stewardson
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