Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound understanding of the application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes.
The Lakes Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools using experience gained around the world for an understanding of lakes and their management. Volume one of the Handbook addresses the physical and biological aspects of lakes pertinent to lake management, emphasising those aspects particularly relevant to large, still bodies of water. Volume two then considers lake management, with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation.
This handbook will be invaluable to ecologists, environmental scientists, physical geographers and hydrologists involved in limnological research, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students looking for authoritative reviews of the key areas of limnological study.
The Lakes Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools using experience gained around the world for an understanding of lakes and their management. Volume one of the Handbook addresses the physical and biological aspects of lakes pertinent to lake management, emphasising those aspects particularly relevant to large, still bodies of water. Volume two then considers lake management, with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation.
This handbook will be invaluable to ecologists, environmental scientists, physical geographers and hydrologists involved in limnological research, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students looking for authoritative reviews of the key areas of limnological study.
- Brings together basic science and management issues.
- International coverage and international authors.
- Reviews management issues at a level suitable for the non-expert.
"However, I suggest that no serious contemporary lake limnologistshould be without this volume on the desk or bookshelves. Ianticipate regular returns to my inspection copy." (AfricanJournal of Aquatic Science, 2004)
"...the Editors and their contributors have provided a treasurechest of information....researchers...would be well advised torecommend it to their librarians."
SILnews
"...a powerful text of such scope and calibre as to set abenchmark for limnetic ecology in the 21st century. Achieving arange of disparate accomplishments, it could potentiallyre-catalyse lake limnology."
African Journal of Aquatic Science
"...the Editors and their contributors have provided a treasurechest of information....researchers...would be well advised torecommend it to their librarians."
SILnews
"...a powerful text of such scope and calibre as to set abenchmark for limnetic ecology in the 21st century. Achieving arange of disparate accomplishments, it could potentiallyre-catalyse lake limnology."
African Journal of Aquatic Science