Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems

by Brian D. Fath (Editor), Sven Erik Jorgensen (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.

The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.

Features

• The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
• Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
• Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
• Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today

In this fourth volume, Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the hydrosphere with its water resources and hydrological systems. This volume serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the hydrosphere systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367512828
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	03/25/2022
Series:	Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, Six-Volume Set
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	758
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Brian D. Fath is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University (Maryland, USA) and a Senior Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria). He has published over 180 research papers, reports, and book chapters on environmental systems modeling, specifically in the areas of network analysis, urban metabolism, and sustainability. He has co-authored the books A New Ecology: Systems Perspective (2020), Foundations for Sustainability: A Coherent Framework of Life–Environment Relations (2019), and Flourishing within Limits to Growth: Following Nature’s Way (2015). He is also Editor-in-Chief for the journal Ecological Modelling and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. Dr. Fath was the 2016 recipient of the Prigogine Medal for outstanding work in systems ecology and twice a Fulbright Distinguished Chair (Parthenope University, Naples, Italy, in 2012 and Masaryk University, Czech Republic, in 2019). In addition, he has served as Secretary General of the International Society for Ecological Modelling, Co-Chair of the Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group in the Community Surface Modeling Dynamics System, and member and past Chair of the Baltimore County Commission on Environmental Quality.

Sven E. Jørgensen (1934–2016) was a Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Copenhagen University. He earned a doctorate of engineering in environmental technology and a doctorate of science in ecological modeling. He was an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University (Portugal) and at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). He was Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Modelling from the journal’s inception in 1975 until 2009. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management (2013) and Encyclopedia of Ecology (2008). In 2004, Dr. Jorgensen was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize and the Prigogine Medal. He was awarded the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005. In 2007, he received the Pascal Medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He published over 350 papers and has edited or written over 70 books. Dr. Jorgensen gave popular and well-received lectures and courses in ecological modeling, ecosystem theory, and ecological engineering worldwide.

Table of Contents

Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals and Activities 1. Aquatic Communities: Pesticide Impacts 2. Coastal Water: Pollution 3. Groundwater: Mining Pollution 4. Groundwater: Nitrogen Fertilizer Contamination 5. Groundwater: Pesticide Contamination 6. Lakes and Reservoirs: Pollution 7. Mines: Acidic Drainage Water 8. Rivers and Lakes: Acidification 9. Rivers: Pollution 10. Sea: Pollution Section II: COV: Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management 11. Rain Water: Harvesting 12. Water Harvesting 13. Groundwater: Saltwater Intrusion 14. Irrigation Systems: Water Conservation 15. Irrigation: Erosion 16. Irrigation: River Flow Impact 17. Irrigation: Saline Water 18. Irrigation: Sewage Effluent Use 19. Irrigation: Soil Salinity 20. Managing Water Resources and Hydrological Systems 21. Runoff Water 22. Salt Marsh Resilience and Vulnerability to Sea-Level Rise and Other Environmental Impacts 23. The Evolution of Water Resources Management 24. Wastewater and Water Utilities 25. Wastewater: Municipal 26. Water Quality and Quantity: Globalization 27. Water: Cost 28. Wetlands: Methane Emission Section III: CSS: Case Studies of Environmental Management 29. Alexandria Lake Maryut: Integrated Environmental Management 30. Aral Sea Disaster 31. Chesapeake Bay 32. Giant Reed (Arundo donax): Streams and Water Resources 33. Inland Seas and Lakes: Central Asia Case Study 34. Oil Pollution: The Baltic Sea 35. Status of Groundwater Arsenic Contamination in the GMB Plain 36. Yellow River Section IV: DIA: Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services 37. Groundwater: Modeling 38. Groundwater: Numerical Method Modeling 39. Nitrogen (Nitrate Leaching) Index 40. Nitrogen (Nutrient) Trading Tool 41. The Accounting Framework of Energy–Water Nexus in Socioeconomic Systems 42. Water Quality: Modeling Section V: ELE: Focuses on the Use of Legislation or Policy to Address Environmental Problems 43. Drainage: Hydrological Impacts Downstream 44. Drainage: Soil Salinity Management 45. Lakes: Restoration 46. Wastewater Use in Agriculture: Policy Issues 47. Water: Total Maximum Daily Load 48. Watershed Management: Remote Sensing and GIS 49. Wetlands: Conservation Policy Section VI: ENT: Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies 50. Irrigation Systems: Subsurface Drip Design 51. Recent Approaches to Robust Water Resources Management under Hydroclimatic Uncertainty 52. Rivers: Restoration 53. Waste: Stabilization Ponds 54. Wastewater Treatment Wetlands: Use in Arctic Regions 5-Year Update 55. Wastewater Treatment: Biological 56. Wastewater Treatment: Conventional Methods 57. Water and Wastewater: Filters 58. Wetlands: Constructed Subsurface 59. Wetlands: Sedimentation and Ecological Engineering 60. Wetlands: Treatment System Use Section VII: NEC: Natural Elements and Chemicals Found in Nature 61. Cyanobacteria: Eutrophic Freshwater Systems 62. Estuaries 63. Everglades 64. Water Quality: Range and Pasture Land 65. Water: Drinking 66. Water: Surface 67. Wetlands Section VIII: PRO: Basic Environmental Processes 68. Eutrophication 69. Wastewater Use in Agriculture 70. Wetlands: Biodiversity 71. Wetlands: Carbon Sequestration