Overview
- Editors:
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Michio Kumagai
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Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, Otsu, Japan
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Warwick F. Vincent
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Department of Biology, Laval University, Québec, Canada
- The authors are scientists who are leaders in aquatic research and environmental assessment
- Each chapter addresses an issue in freshwater management with emphasis on either local or global approaches
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages I-XIII
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- Michio Kumagai, Warwick F. Vincent, Kanako Ishikawa, Yasuaki Aota
Pages 1-22
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- Richard D. Robarts, Andrew S. Fraser, Kelly M. Hodgson, Guy M. Paquette, Jean-Jacques Frenette, Warwick F. Vincent et al.
Pages 23-82
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- Tom Murphy, Hans G. Peterson
Pages 83-114
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- Louis Legendre, Masumi Yamamuro
Pages 115-134
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- Erik Jeppesen, Martin Søndergaard, Jens Peder Jensen, Torben L. Lauridsen, Clive Howard-Williams, David Kelly
Pages 135-175
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- Charles R. Goldman, M. R. James, W. Vant, C. Severne
Pages 177-216
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- Warwick F. Vincent, Michio Kumagai
Pages 217-228
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Back Matter
Pages 229-233
About this book
The globalization of trade, monetary and fiscal policies, capital markets, and investment patterns is reshaping the world economy and is leading to new financial, commercial, and marketing structures as well as unprecedented economies of scale. Simultaneously, national and international awareness and to strengthen. There is consensus among responses to accelerating environmental degradation continue most developed countries that the rapidly evolving new economic order needs to be well integrated with policies to maintain or restore environmental quality. Many challenges remain, however, in evaluating the geo-ecological implications of economic globalization, and in formulating the appropriate management responses. In lakes and rivers, the management of water supply and quality has largely proceeded on the basis of local considerations rather than at the global scale that has been more typical of environmental management of the atmosphere and ocean. It is increasingly apparent, however, that high-quality water resources are now in critically short supply not only because of local problems such as over-irrigation and eutrophication, but also as a result of larger-scale climate effects on the hydrosphere. This magnitude of impact will increasingly require the integrated monitoring and management of water resources on a planetary scale, with world criteria for environmental assessment, restoration, and conservation strategies. The increasing extent of world trade in potable freshwater heightens the urgency for establishing international approaches, criteria, and regulations.
Editors and Affiliations
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Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, Otsu, Japan
Michio Kumagai
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Department of Biology, Laval University, Québec, Canada
Warwick F. Vincent
