Freshwater Management: Global Versus Local Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Michio Kumagai, Warwick F. Vincent, Kanako Ishikawa, Yasuaki Aota (auth.), Michio Kumagai D.Sc., Warwick F. Vincent Ph.D. (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Japan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 238
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Lessons from Lake Biwa and Other Asian Lakes: Global and Local Perspectives....Pages 1-22
Perspectives on Environmental Monitoring....Pages 23-82
Approaches Towards Environmental Restoration....Pages 83-114
Strategies for Ecological Modeling....Pages 115-134
Recovery from Eutrophication....Pages 135-175
Requirements for Lake Management....Pages 177-216
Global and Local Approaches to Freshwater Management: The Way Ahead....Pages 217-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-233

✦ Subjects

Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Landscape Ecology; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Environmental Management; Nature Conservation