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Subject(s)

• Watershed management—Europe [Browse]

Editor

• Brils, Jos [Browse]
• Brack, Werner (Environmental toxicologist) [Browse]
• Müller-Grabherr, Dietmar [Browse]
• Négrel, Philippe [Browse]
• Vermaat, Jan [Browse]

Author

• Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H. [Browse]

Series

• Handbook of environmental chemistry ; volume 29. [More in this series]
• The handbook of environmental chemistry ; volume 29

Summary note

The growing impacts of economic activities and climate change on the conditions of rivers throughout the world, require a new, integrated approach towards river basin management, an approach that can also cope with an uncertain future. In this volume, leading European scientists and representatives of major stakeholder groups present risk-informed management as this new approach, as developed in the European Commission-funded project RISKBASE. It aims to improve the ecological quality of river basins and thus to sustain the goods and services they provide for the benefit of society. Risk-informed management involves the integrated application of three key-principles: Being well informed Managing adaptively Pursuing a participatory approach The authors explain and underpin these principles in detail, offer inspiring examples from practice and connect them to the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). This book is intended for scientists, consultants and practitioners concerned about river basins, world-wide, as well as the drafters and implementers of the WFD River Basin Management Plans.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: the Need for Risk-Informed River Basin Management / Jos Brils [and 12 others]
• Soil-Sediment- River Connections: Catchment Processes delivering Pressures to River Catchments / Philippe Négrel [and 8 others]
• Status and Causal Pathway Assessments Supporting River Basin Management / Peter C. von der Ohe [and 17 others]
• Monitoring Programs, Multiple Stress Analysis and Decision Support for River Basin Management / Peter C. von der Ohe [and 11 others]
• Downscaling Scenarios as an Exploratory Tool for River Basin Management an Introduction / Jan E. Vermaat [and 3 others]
• Informing River Basin Management on Flood and Drought Risks Taking Future Uncertainties into Account / Aline te Linde, Hans de Moel, and Jeroen Aerts
• Future Land Use Patterns in European River Basins: Scenario Trends in Urbanization, Agriculture and Land Use / Fritz A. Hellmann and Hans de Moel
• Framing the Uncertain Future: Articulating IPCC-SRES Scenarios for European River Basins / Jan E. Vermaat [and 6 others]
• Integrated River Basin Management and Risk Governance / Dietmar Müller-Grabherr [and 8 others]
• Ecosystem Services and River Basin Management / Kate A. Brauman, Suzanne van der Meulen, and Jos Brils
• Participatory Approaches and the Role of Facilitative Leadership / Mattijs van Maasakkers, Michael Duijn, and Britta Kastens
• How Spatial Planning Can Connect to River Basin Management / Geiske Bouma and Adriaan Slob
• Improving the Connection Between Science and Policy for River Basin Management / Adriaan Slob and Michael Duijn
• Synthesis and Recommendations Towards Risk-Informed River Basin Management / Jos Brils [and 12 others].

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Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

ISBN

• 9783642385971
• 3642385974

LCCN

2013946242

OCLC

858942484

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