Overview
- Provides a profound understanding of the functioning of river ecosystems
- Offers guiding principles for a successful management of river basins
- Enhances the cost-effectiveness of management measures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC, volume 29)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding River Ecosystems
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Anticipating Change
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Connecting to the Social System
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Synthesis and Recommendations
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About this book
The growing impacts of economic activities and climate change on the conditions of rivers throughout the world, require a new, integrated approach towards river basin management, an approach that can also cope with an uncertain future. In this volume, leading European scientists and representatives of major stakeholder groups present risk-informed management as this new approach, as developed in the European Commission-funded project RISKBASE. It aims to improve the ecological quality of river basins and thus to sustain the goods and services they provide for the benefit of society. Risk-informed management involves the integrated application of three key-principles:
· Being well informed
· Managing adaptively
· Pursuing a participatory approach
The authors explain and underpin these principles in detail, offer inspiring examples from practice and connect them to the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD).
Thisbook is intended for scientists, consultants and practitioners concerned about river basins, world-wide, as well as the drafters and implementers of the WFD River Basin Management Plans.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Risk-Informed Management of European River Basins
Editors: Jos Brils, Werner Brack, Dietmar Müller-Grabherr, Philippe Négrel, Jan E. Vermaat
Series Title: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38598-8
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38597-1Published: 05 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42944-6Published: 18 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38598-8Published: 23 August 2013
Series ISSN: 1867-979X
Series E-ISSN: 1616-864X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 395
Topics: Environmental Management, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Hydrogeology, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis