Achieving sustainable freshwater systems : a web of connections / edited by Marjorie M. Holland, Elizabeth R. Blood, and Lawrence R. Shaffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holland, Marjorie.

Blood, Elizabeth R.

Shaffer, Lawrence R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freshwater ecology.

Ecosystem management.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington : Island Press, [2003]

Summary:

One of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century is to develop a means of satisfying the water demands of an ever-expanding human population while at the same time protecting the aquatic ecosystems and ecological services upon which all life depends.

Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to present key insights and information on sustainable freshwater systems. Contributors represent a variety of perspectives and expertise, helping to illuminate the multiple connections and concerns involved with freshwater systems. Throughout they focus on the idea that freshwater systems lie at the heart of many different environmental and societal concerns. Achieving sustainability will require a heightened understanding of the connections among those concerns, and a willingness for experts and stakeholders to work together across areas of interest.

For both scientists and managers, Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems represents an important new resource for formulating site-specific solutions to problems involving natural resource sustainability.

Contents:

Sustainable freshwater resources : the promise and the reality / Walter Rast

Wetlands laws and policies : how we got where we are today / Kristen M. Fletcher

Aquatic resources and human health / K. Erica Marsh ... [et al.]

Interacting effects of altered hydrology and contaminant transport : emerging ecological patterns of global concern / Catherine M. Pringle

Freshwater and wetland ecology : challenges and future frontiers / Robert G. Wetzel

Wetland biogeochemistry / S. Reza Pezeshki ... [et al.]

Chemical ecology and natural products from wetlands : emerging perspectives / Dale G. Nagle, Marc Slattery, and Alice M. Clark

Wetland restoration : applications on the land in the lower Mississippi alluvial valley / Paul B. Rodrigue and Keith M. Wright

Restoring forested wetland ecosystems / John A. Stanturf, Emile S. Gardiner, and Melvin L. Warren Jr.

Wetlands and agriculture / Charles M. Cooper and Matthew T. Moore

Sustainability of aquatic systems and the role of culture and values / Sara A. Davis, Lawrence R. Shaffer, and Julie H. Edmister

Regional water strategies / Elizabeth R. Blood

Sustainable freshwater resources : achieving secure water supplies / Walter Rast and Marjorie M. Holland

The state of freshwater resources : conclusions and recommendations / Marjorie M. Holland, Elizabeth R. Blood, and Lawrence R. Shaffer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1559639288

1559639296

OCLC:

51242173