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Beschreibung

Managing Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice captures the different facets of river management required for integrating rivers within the development landscape of cities in a sustainable manner. Sections cover the entire spectrum of urban river management, from planning to actual on-the-ground implementation, providing a one-stop destination for knowledge on urban river management. Edited by a team of four experts with practical experience in this domain, the different chapters of the book are authored by eminent scholars and practitioners with expertise in specific areas of urban river management.

Urban rivers and their management is a hot topic as governments across the world are focusing on this aspect, especially since it has direct implications for SDG target 6.6, which aims to "protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes?.

Managing Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice captures the different facets of river management required for integrating rivers within the development landscape of cities in a sustainable manner. Sections cover the entire spectrum of urban river management, from planning to actual on-the-ground implementation, providing a one-stop destination for knowledge on urban river management. Edited by a team of four experts with practical experience in this domain, the different chapters of the book are authored by eminent scholars and practitioners with expertise in specific areas of urban river management.

Urban rivers and their management is a hot topic as governments across the world are focusing on this aspect, especially since it has direct implications for SDG target 6.6, which aims to "protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes?.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
  1. Cities and rivers: a symbiotic relationship
  2. Urban river management:scope and spectrum
  3. Mainstreaming 'River-Thinking'into a city's long-term vision
  4. Mainstreaming river thinking into urban planning
  5. Understanding riverfront developments: through time, function, and drivers for transformation
  6. Urban wetlands and water bodies
  7. Enhancing and conserving urban biodiversity
  8. Urban river pollution control
  9. Enriching and maintaining the riparian buffer zone
  10. Addressing urban extensions on floodplains
  11. Economics of sustainable urban river management
  12. Students breaking barriers: workshops as brokers in riverfront collaboration and design
  13. Nine steps towards rehabilitation and restoration of degraded urban rivers
  14. Urban river governance
  15. Urban river health assessment and management
  16. Citizen participation in urban river management
  17. Urban river management by innovative monitoring
  18. Future considerations for managing urban rivers
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Geologie
Genre: Geowissenschaften, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780323857031
ISBN-10: 0323857035
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Vaidya, Hitesh
Mishra, Rajiv Ranjan under Ministry of JalShakti
Bhonde, Uday
Shinde, Victor R.
Hersteller: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 212 x 276 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Hitesh Vaidya (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.09.2023
Gewicht: 1,02 kg
Artikel-ID: 122625619