Editors:
- Large case study provides detailed information on nutrient pollution for students, researchers and professionals
- Local approach provides managers with useful guidance and solutions
- Interactions between biological, ecological, chemical and physical processes in Narragansett Bay are explored
Part of the book series: Springer Series on Environmental Management (SSEM)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Science for Ecosystem-based Management: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century addresses the broad problem of coastal nutrient pollution. In the U.S., approximately two thirds of the coastal rivers and bays are moderately to severely degraded from nutrient pollution. However, debates continue about how large a problem nutrient pollution is and what actions to take, and since effective management requires decisions at a local scale, an in-depth case study can provide valuable guidance.
Narragansett Bay is one of the best-studied estuaries in the world. Rhode Island has been developing regulatory and management actions to reduce nutrient inputs, particularly those of nitrogen, to the waters of Narragansett Bay. This book was developed in response to a symposium addressing this mandate with coastal/estuarine scientists and environmental management agency personnel. The contributors use long-term data sets to discuss the interactions among biological, ecological, chemical, and physical processes, and discuss what is known about nutrient inputs to the bay ecosystem, the impacts related to nutrient inputs, and how the ecosystem might respond to a sudden reduction in these inputs.
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From the reviews:
"This book, part of the ‘Springer Series on Environmental Management,’ is based on a 2004 symposium of the same name. Desbonnet and Costa-Pierce … bring together all aspects of ecosystem-based management practices to improve environmental quality. … contains clear tables and figures that help to illustrate points in the text. … The book contains many references related to the field site and to best practices in ecosystem management; it will be especially valuable … . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students through professionals." (M. E. Lenczewski, CHOICE, Vol. 45 (11), August, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Rhode Island Sea Grant College Program, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett
Alan Desbonnet, Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science of Ecosystem-based Management
Book Subtitle: Narragansett Bay in the 21st Century
Editors: Alan Desbonnet, Barry A. Costa-Pierce
Series Title: Springer Series on Environmental Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35299-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-35298-5Published: 01 February 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8585-9Published: 03 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-35299-2Published: 12 January 2008
Series ISSN: 0172-6161
Series E-ISSN: 2512-5559
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 570
Topics: Environmental Management, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Applied Ecology, Nature Conservation, Freshwater & Marine Ecology