Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds
John Wesley Powell, U.S. scientist and geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: …that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become p...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Watershed Management in Various Countries
- Watershed and Water Management System in Algeria
- Advances in Managing Austria’s Water Resources
- Problems and Prospects of Water Resources Management in the Azerbaijan Republic
- Water Resources Management System of Kyrgyzstan
- Watershed Management Practices in the Philippines: The Tigum-Aganan Watershed Case
- Watershed Management System in Poland and Its Implications for Environmental Conditions of the Baltic Sea: An Example of the Vistula River Watershed
- Watersheds Management in Romania: Challenges and Opportunities
- Watershed Management in the Russian Federation and Transboundary Issues by Example of Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia)
- Overview of Water Management in Turkey: Issues, Constraints, Achievements, Prospect
- Watershed Management in the United States
- Decision Support Tools, Models and Case Studies
- Multilevel Participatory Model for Decision Making on Regional Hydro-System Basis: Serbian Case Study
- Supporting Tools for Decisional Process within Water Framework Directive: From EU Context to Modelkey Perspective
- Application of Water Quality Modelling as a Decision Support System Tool for Planned Buyuk Melen Reservoir and Its Watershed
- The Use of Numerical Modeling in Italian Watershed Management
- Sustainable Development of Watersheds: Using Sturgeon Species as an Indicator in Integrated Transboundary Water Management in the Ural River Basin
- Lagoon Ecosystem Study Trough Two Cases: Oualidia (Atlantic) and Nador (Mediterranean) – Morocco
- Coastal Lagoons in the Context of Water Management in Spain and Europe
- Water Framework Directive: Defining the Ecological Quality Status in Transitional and Coastal Waters
- The Role of Ecological Endpoints in Watershed Management
- Bioidentification ofXenobiotics as a Basis of Water Management
- GIS Analysis of Sustainable Development Indicators for Coastal Watersheds in the South-East Baltic
- Combined Use of Watershed Models to Assess the Apportionment of Point and Non Point Load Sources to Surface Waters
- Development of National Action Plan to Address Pollution from Land Based Activities in Turkey
- Reduction of the Land-Based Discharges to the Curonian Lagoon in a View of a Climate Change Perspective
- The Study of Hydro-Mineralogical and Ecological Regime of Kara-Bogaz-Gol Lagoon, Turkmenistan
- Comparative Analysis of Water Management Practices in Mediterranean Countries
- Chesapeake Bay Program – A Watershed Approach to Management
- Conclusions and Recommondations
- Decision Support Systems and Tools
- Land-Based Sources, Water Quality and Management
- Decision Making, Policy And Financing