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Book Synopsis Restoration of Watersheds and Estuaries by : Annette Fernandez
Download or read book Restoration of Watersheds and Estuaries written by Annette Fernandez and published by Nova Snova. This book was released on 2019 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Columbia River Basin is one of the nation's largest watersheds and extends mainly through four Western states and into Canada. Activities such as power generation and agricultural practices have impaired water quality in some areas, so that human health is at risk and certain species, such as salmon, are threatened or extinct. Chapter 1 reports on the actions related to restoration efforts in the Basin. The San Francisco Bay Delta watershed--which drains a vast area of California from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Pacific Ocean--supplies drinking water for 25 million people and provides irrigation for about half the nation's fruit and vegetable production. Decades of development and agriculture have led to large reductions in water quality and supply, natural flood protection, and habitats across the watershed's three major regions: the Bay, the Delta, and the upper watershed. As described in chapter 2, federal entities have been working with nonfederal entities for decades to protect and restore the watershed. The Long Island Sound, an estuary bordered by Connecticut and New York, provides numerous economic and recreational benefits. However, development and pollution have resulted in environmental impacts, such as the degradation of water quality. Chapter 3 focuses on the Study to restore and protect the Sound. Puget Sound is the nation's second-largest estuary and serves as an important economic engine in Washington State, supporting millions of people, major industries, and a wide variety of species. However, according to the CCMP, human use and development have degraded water quality and habitats and harmed critical species such as salmon. Chapter 4 reviews the efforts to restore Puget Sound.
Book Synopsis Community-Based Watershed Management by : U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Download or read book Community-Based Watershed Management written by U. S. Environmental Protection Agency and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applicable to watershed protection and restoration efforts in both coastal and non-coastal areas, this handbook describes 28 watershed management approaches. It features principles and lessons that examine approaches to integrating science and management, fostering collaborative decision-making, and involving the public.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :152 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Estuary Restoration and Coastal Water Conservation Legislation by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Download or read book Estuary Restoration and Coastal Water Conservation Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a Watershed Approach written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Protecting and Restoring America's Watersheds by :
Download or read book Protecting and Restoring America's Watersheds written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Estuary Restoration and Maintenance by : Michael J. Kennish
Download or read book Estuary Restoration and Maintenance written by Michael J. Kennish and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-08-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume examines the work of the National Estuary Program, the prominent federally-funded initiative dealing with pollution and other anthropogenic impacts on estuarine ecosystems and the management plans necessary to ensure that these invaluable natural treasures remain healthy and productive for future generations. Estuary Resto
Book Synopsis Flowing Together by : Jesse Saemann Sayles
Download or read book Flowing Together written by Jesse Saemann Sayles and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape restoration is a global priority as evidenced by the United Nations 2020 goal to restore 150 million hectares of land worldwide. Restoration is particularly needed in estuaries and their watersheds as society depends on these environments for numerous benefits. Estuary restoration is often undermined by social-ecological scale mismatch, the incongruence between governing units and the bio-physical resources they seek to govern. Despite growing recognition of this fact, few empirical studies focus on scale mismatches in environmental restoration work. Using a sub-basin of Puget Sound, Washington, U.S.A., I analyze scale mismatches in estuary restoration. I take a network science approach because governance networks can bridge scale mismatches. I combine quantitative social network analysis (SNA), geographic information systems (GIS), and qualitative interview analysis. Spatial network analysis reveals several areas with weak scale mismatch bridging networks. These weak social networks are then compared to ecological restoration needs to identify coupled social-ecological restoration concerns. Subsequent study investigates jurisdictional and sectoral network integration because governance siloes contribute to scale mismatch. While the network is fairly well integrated, several sectors do not interact or interact very little. An analysis of collaboration reasons disentangles the idea of generic collaboration. Among three relationship types considered, mandated relationships contribute almost 5.5 times less to perceived collaboration productivity than shared interest relationships, highlighting the benefits of true collaborations in watershed governance. Lastly, the effects of scale mismatch on individual restoration projects and landscape level restoration planning are assessed through qualitative interview analysis. Results illustrate why human-environment processes should be included in landscape restoration planning. Social factors are not considered as constraints to restoration but rather part of the very landscape fabric to be restored. Scale mismatch is conceptualized as a complex social-ecological landscape pattern that affects the flow of financial, human, and natural capital across the landscape. This represents a new way of thinking about scale mismatch and landscape restoration in complex multi-level governance systems. In addition, the maps, network diagnostics, and narratives in this dissertation can help practitioners in Puget Sound and provide proofs of concepts that can be replicated elsewhere for restoration and broader conservation sciences.
Book Synopsis Community-based Watershed Management by :
Download or read book Community-based Watershed Management written by and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applicable to watershed protection and restoration efforts in both coastal and non-coastal areas, this handbook describes 28 watershed management approaches. It features principles and lessons that examine approaches to integrating science and management, fostering collaborative decision-making, and involving the public.
Book Synopsis Fifth National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Resortation by : Restore America's Estuaries (Organization)
Download or read book Fifth National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Resortation written by Restore America's Estuaries (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monitoring Stream and Watershed Restoration by : Philip Roni
Download or read book Monitoring Stream and Watershed Restoration written by Philip Roni and published by C A B International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable tourism is not a static target, but a dynamic process of change, a transition. This book considers how monitoring using indicators can assist tourism to make such a sustainability transition. It encourages the reader to view tourism from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective that draws on material from a wide range of sources including ecology, global change and the new and emerging field of sustainability science. The book explains why monitoring is important for different groups of stakeholders; public and private sector, NGOs and communities. It also examines important monitoring considerations such as what and where to measure, how much will monitoring cost and how the data can be presented. The book puts particular emphasis on indicator use and implementation. It highlights the process and techniques to develop and use indicators and then provides clear and detailed examples of monitoring in practice around the globe at different geographic scales.
Book Synopsis Restore America's Estuaries Presents the 2nd National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration by : Restore America's Estuaries (Organization)
Download or read book Restore America's Estuaries Presents the 2nd National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration written by Restore America's Estuaries (Organization) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Floodplains by : Jeffrey J. Opperman
Download or read book Floodplains written by Jeffrey J. Opperman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to temperate floodplains -- Hydrology -- Floodplain and geomorphology -- Biogeochemistry -- Ecology: introduction -- Floodplain forests -- Primary and secondary production -- Fish and other vertebrates -- Ecosystem services and floodplain reconciliation -- Floodplains as green infrastructure -- Case studies of floodplain management and reconciliation -- Central Valley floodplains: introduction and history -- Central Valley floodplains today -- Reconciling Central Valley floodplains -- Conclusions: managing temperate floodplains for multiple benefits
Book Synopsis Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems by : National Research Council
Download or read book Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aldo Leopold, father of the "land ethic," once said, "The time has come for science to busy itself with the earth itself. The first step is to reconstruct a sample of what we had to begin with." The concept he expressedâ€"restorationâ€"is defined in this comprehensive new volume that examines the prospects for repairing the damage society has done to the nation's aquatic resources: lakes, rivers and streams, and wetlands. Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems outlines a national strategy for aquatic restoration, with practical recommendations, and features case studies of aquatic restoration activities around the country. The committee examines: Key concepts and techniques used in restoration. Common factors in successful restoration efforts. Threats to the health of the nation's aquatic ecosystems. Approaches to evaluation before, during, and after a restoration project. The emerging specialties of restoration and landscape ecology.
Book Synopsis Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds by : I. Ethem Gönenç
Download or read book Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds written by I. Ethem Gönenç and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wesley Powell, U.S. scientist and geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: ...that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community. Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes. They cross sectorial boundaries (e.g. county, state/province, and country). No matter where you are, you are in a watershed! World-wide, watersheds supply drinking water, provide r- reation and respite, and sustain life. Watersheds are rich in natural capital, producing goods (agriculture and fisheries products) and services (industry and technology) for broad geographic areas. In many countries, at the base of watersheds where tributaries empty into large water-bodies (e.g. estuaries, seas, oceans) are centers of society and are typically densely populated areas. These areas serve as concentrated centers of the socio-economic system. They also are centers of domestic and international trade, tourism, and c- merce as well as the center of governments (capitals) where local, regional and national legislatures are located. As we all live in a watershed, our individual actions can directly affect it. The cumulative effects of all the individual actions of everyone within a watershed may be, and often are devastating to the quality of water resources and affect the health of living things including humans. Therefore, watershed systems are highly subject to threat to human security and peace.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :152 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Estuary Restoration and Coastal Water Conservation Legislation by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Download or read book Estuary Restoration and Coastal Water Conservation Legislation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Texas Aquatic Science by : Rudolph A. Rosen
Download or read book Texas Aquatic Science written by Rudolph A. Rosen and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classroom resource provides clear, concise scientific information in an understandable and enjoyable way about water and aquatic life. Spanning the hydrologic cycle from rain to watersheds, aquifers to springs, rivers to estuaries, ample illustrations promote understanding of important concepts and clarify major ideas. Aquatic science is covered comprehensively, with relevant principles of chemistry, physics, geology, geography, ecology, and biology included throughout the text. Emphasizing water sustainability and conservation, the book tells us what we can do personally to conserve for the future and presents job and volunteer opportunities in the hope that some students will pursue careers in aquatic science. Texas Aquatic Science, originally developed as part of a multi-faceted education project for middle and high school students, can also be used at the college level for non-science majors, in the home-school environment, and by anyone who educates kids about nature and water. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Book Synopsis Estuary and Coastal Habitat Conservation by : R. Eisler
Download or read book Estuary and Coastal Habitat Conservation written by R. Eisler and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
