Watershed Management: Practice, Policies, and Coordination [Hardcover]

Robert J. Reimold (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0070522995 | ISBN-13: 978-0070522992 | Publication Date: July 1, 1998 | Edition: 1

Successful approaches to protecting and improving watershed resources

Ensuring a safe and adequate supply of water requires the combined efforts and expertise of resource managers, engineers, planners, technical experts, and policy analysts worldwide. This contributed volume is unique in recognizing this need and provides today's first truly comprehensive, international coverage of effective watershed management.

Experts representing the full spectrum of environmental professions and viewpoints provide detailed case studies of how watershed management is being implemented around the world, focusing on the United States, France, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, the Nile River, and other areas. Successful approaches such as whole watershed and full stakeholder involvement; watershed sanitary surveys; urban watershed management; river basin planning; integrated management and water resource protection; watershed-based coastal management wetlands restoration; water quality monitoring and assessment; stormwater and other nonpoint pollution source management; water withdrawal; wastewater discharge permitting; and other tools for cost-effective watershed management are highlighted. Mathematical models demonstrate how various systems can be successfully managed for future sustainability.

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Successful international approaches to protecting and improving watershed resources. Ensuring a safe and adequate supply of water is a global concern, requiring the combined efforts and expertise of resource managers, engineers, planners, technical experts, and policy analysts from around the world. This contributed volume is unique in recognizing this need and provides today's first truly comprehensive, international coverage of effective watershed management. Watershed Management clarifies the watershed approach to managing resources in a sustainable fashion. Experts representing the full spectrum of environmental professions and viewpoints provide detailed case studies of how watershed management is being implemented around the world. In focusing on the United States, France, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim the Nile River, and other areas, they highlight successful approaches such as: whole watershed and full stakeholder involvement; watershed sanitary surveys; urban watershed management; river basin planning; integrated management and water resource protection; watershed-based coastal management wetlands restoration; water quality monitoring and assessment; stormwater and other nonpoint pollution source management; water withdrawal; wastewater discharge permitting; and other tools for cost-effective watershed management. Featuring mathematical models that demonstrate how various systems can be successfully managed for future sustainability, Watershed Management is an essential resource for every environmental manager, planner, engineer, scientist, and policymaker.

About the Author

Robert J. Reimold, Ph.D., is Vice President and National Technical Director for Risk-Based Environmental Decision Making for EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, a leading consulting/management firm solving complex environmental, energy, and public health problems for global clients. Dr. Reimold directs the companyÕs practice in risk sciences and sustainable natural resources management. An internationally recognized expert in wetlands ecology, assessments, construction, and mitigation, Dr. Reimold has more than 30 years of international experience in managing ecological studies related to natural, social, and economic resources. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist of the Ecological Society of America and a Certified Senior Fisheries Scientist of the American Fisheries Society. He served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology at the University of Georgia under the direction of Professor Eugene P. Odum, the world-renowned ecologist.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 608 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070522995
• ISBN-13: 978-0070522992
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,826,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Significant book on integrated environmental management., August 23, 1998

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This review is from: Watershed Management: Practice, Policies, and Coordination (Hardcover)

Environmental protection programs in the United States have greatly improved the water quality in lakes, rivers, wetlands, coastal waters, and ground water during the past 25 years, yet many challenges remain. Dr. Robert Reimold-an internationally recognized expert in wetlands ecology and active participant in the Water Environment Federation (WEF), a worldwide non-profit technical and educational organization-has written and edited a significant volume on integrated environmental management. Developed for environmental engineers, planners, and managers; government policymakers; economic planners; and other key stakeholders, Watershed Management builds on the correct premise that many water quality and ecosystem issues are best addressed environmentally, financially, socially, and administratively at the watershed level rather than at the individual waterbody or specific discharger level. The watershed approach addresses environmental issues within natural hydrologically defined geographic areas, taking into consideration both surface and ground water flow. Important within the watershed approach is the cumulative impact of a wide variety of human activities and the prioritization of critical issues within a given watershed. Dr. Reimold points to work in the Chesapeake Bay and the Florida Everglades as two good examples of decisions being made and focused, integrated actions being taken on a "whole drainage system" basis rather than by controlling point sources of pollution only. Water Management spans case studies in the U.S., France, the Nile River basin, the Pacific rim, and former Soviet Union. The book contains a foreword by Dr. Eugene P. Odum. Dr. Odum, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, is a recipient of the Crafoord Prize-an equivalent of the Nobel Prize-for excellence in ecology from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is well-annotated, subject-indexed, and authenticated quantitatively. Robert S. Frey, M.A. Editor/Publisher, BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal