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This book addresses the fundamental requirement for an interdisciplinary catchment based approach to managing and protecting water resources that crucially includes an understanding of land use and its management. In this approach the hydrological cycle links mountains to the sea, and ecosystems in rivers, groundwaters, lakes, wetlands, estuaries and coasts forming an essential continuum directly influenced by human activity.
The book provides a synthesis of current and future thinking in catchment management, and shows how the specific problems that arise in water use policy can be addressed within the context of an integrated approach to management. The book is written for advanced students, researchers, fellow academics and water sector professionals such as planners and regulators. The intention is to highlight examples and case studies that have resonance not only within natural sciences and engineering but with academics in other fields such as socio-economics, law and policy.
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Catchment Management | |
| Release Date: 09-11-2009 | |
| Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell |
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Handbook of Catchment Management
Chapter One
The Catchment Management ConceptROBERT C. FERRIER AND ALAN JENKINS
1.1 Introduction
Earth systems processes such as geological, hydrological and biogeochemical have shaped our landscapes. Global and regional climatic factors have influenced the distribution of water resources (river, lakes, groundwaters, estuaries, etc.) which has influenced the distribution of ecosystems and humans. Fluvial and erosional process have determined the form of aquatic environments, influencing the development of channel characteristics, river corridors, flood plains, deltas, along with instream characteristics and morphology such as reach structure, width, depth, and forms of meanders, bars and shoals. Pedological and geological processes influence the transfer of water between the saturated and unsaturated zone and the nature and extent of groundwater systems, and their interaction with surface waters.
The catchment, basin, watershed or similar is basic to hydrological thinking. The catchment outlet identifies the point at which all rainfall naturally drains towards or is directed to by human intervention. Natural processes result in the formation of a stable (at large scale) yet dynamic (at small scale) system bounded within physical (catchment) constraints. Undisturbed catchments are in a quasi-equilibrium, but as landscape features are manipulated and changed by human activities such as land use and riparian management, natural processes are affected. This may result in downstream consequences such as movement of material (soil, water and bedload), g
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