Sven Erik Jorgensen, Jose Galizia Tundisi, Takako Matsumura Tundisi

Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining background knowledge and practical tools, Handbook of Inland Aquatic Ecosystem Management gives you an overview of how to manage inland waters in a holistic manner. It examines the problems that threaten aquatic inland water ecosystems and presents a set of toolboxes for solving them. The book focuses on lakes, reservoirs, ponds, rivers, wetlands, lagoons, and estuaries, including the predominant freshwater ecosystems as well as saline and brackish ecosystems. Understand Ecosystem Properties and Ecological Processes The book consists of two parts. The first part reviews the basic scientific knowledge needed in the environmental and ecological management of aquatic ecosystems, from limnology and ecology of inland water ecosystems to environmental physics and chemistry. It emphasizes the interacting processes that characterize all inland aquatic ecosystems and explains the scientific considerations behind the conservation principles and their applications. Define the Problems and Quantify Their Sources The second part of the book presents toolboxes that you can apply to achieve more holistic environmental and ecological management. After an overview of the environmental problems of inland aquatic ecosystems and their sources, the book examines toolboxes to help you identify the problem, namely mass balances, ecological indicators, and ecological models. It also discusses toolboxes that can be used to find an environmental management solution to the problem: environmental technology, cleaner technology, and ecotechnology. Integrate Science and Practical Toolboxes to Manage Inland Waters More Effectively This book shows you how to integrate biology, ecology, limnology, and chemistry with the toolboxes in an up-to-date, multidisciplinary approach to environmental management. It provides a powerful framework for identifying ecological mechanisms that interact with global environmental problems threatening inland aquatic ecosystems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 844g
• ISBN-13: 9781439845257
• ISBN-10: 1439845255
• Artikelnr.: 34100367

Autorenporträt

Sven Erik Jørgensen is a professor of environmental chemistry at University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. He is an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University, Portugal, and at Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania. In 2004 and 2005, Dr. Jørgensen was awarded the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize, the Prigogine Prize, and the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he received the Pascal medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences. Jose Galizia Tundisi is a retired professor of environmental sciences at the University of São Paulo, São Carlos, Brazil. He currently serves as president of the International Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, a nonprofit organization at São Carlos. He also serves as full professor of environmental quality at University Feevale, Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He has served as a consultant in 40 countries in water and resource management, and limnology, aquatic biology, and watershed management. Takako Matsumura Tundisi is a retired professor of ecology at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. She currently serves as scientific director of the International Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, a nonprofit organization at São Carlos. She developed several projects in limnology of tropical lakes and reservoirs and coordinated a large-scale study of 220 reservoirs in São Paulo State for the Biota-FAPESP program. Since 1999, she has been chief editor of the Brazilian Journal of Biology.

Inhaltsangabe

Limnology and Ecology of Inland Waters: Overview of Inland Aquatic
Ecosystems and Their General Characteristics. Lakes and Reservoirs as
Ecosystems. Physical Processes and Circulation in Lakes and Reservoirs.
Rivers as Ecosystems. Estuaries and Coastal Lagoons as Ecosystems.
Wetlands. Tropical Freshwater Ecosystems. Freshwater Temperate Lakes and
Reservoirs. Application of the Conservation Principles. Application of
Aquatic Chemistry in Environmental Management I: Calculations of
Equilibria. Application of Aquatic Chemistry in Environmental Management
II: Equilibrium Calculations of the Four Types of Reactions. Future of
Limnology and Aquatic Ecology as a Tool for Management of Inland Waters.
Holistic, Environmental and Ecological Management: Impacts on Watersheds
and Inland Aquatic Ecosystems. Integrated Ecological and Environmental
Management. Application of Environmental Technology in the Environmental
and Ecological Management. Application of Cleaner Technology in
Environmental and Ecological Management. Application of Ecotechnology in
Ecosystem Management of Inland Waters. Application of Ecological Indicators
in Environmental Management of Freshwater Ecosystems. Application of
Ecological Models in Management of Aquatic Inland Ecosystems. Index.