Effects of Watershed Development and Management on Aquatic Ecosystems: Proceedings of an Engineering Foundation Conference

By United States Environmental Protection Agency

Proceedings of a conference on the effects of watershed development and management on aquatic ecosystems, held in Snowbird, Utah, August 4-9, 1996. Sponsored by the Engineering Foundation. This collection contains 40 papers on the preservation, maintenance, and re-establishment of ecosystems in urban areas. These papers demonstrate that management of urban water resources embodies a diverse set of scientific disciplines and engineering issues. They also reveal that no template currently exists for integrating these disciplines and issues into municipal programs for urban water resource management. However, this collection does establish the basis for building an integrated approach to development of sustainable urban water resource programs that embody the appropriate scientific and engineering considerations, along with the institutional structure to implement the program. Topics include: approaches to expanding monitoring beyond water quality; advances in using toxicity bioindicators in urban aquatic ecosystem assessment; effects of watershed development on hydrology and aquatic habitat structure; impacts of watershed development of aquatic biota; consequences of watershed development on stream morphology; watershed development effects in arid and semi-arid regions; and management and institutional issues. This collection will be of interest to environmental science and engineering professionals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0784402329
• ISBN13: 9780784402320
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Amer Society of Civil Engineers
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 5.8"