[PDF] Nsw Diffuse Source Water Pollution Strategy eBook

Author : Asit Biswas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1317978951

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The global attention in recent years has focused primarily on water quantity and allocation issues. Water quality has received significantly less attention than water quantity. Commendable progress has been made by the developed world to control point sources of pollution, but commensurate progress in reducing non-point sources has not been made. In the third world countries both point and non-point sources of pollution are becoming increasingly a serious concern. Already, nearly all water bodies in such countries near and around urban centres have been severely polluted, with very high health and environmental costs. The book assesses the current status of water quality management in both developed and developing worlds, as well as analysing the effectiveness of economic instruments and legal and institutional frameworks to control water contamination. It outlines the importance of building up social and political awareness to reverse the trend of continuing water quality deterioration, which is likely to be a most challenging task in the coming years. This book was published as a special issue of International Journal of Water Resources Development.

Author : Landcom (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : 9780975203033

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"This new edition of the 'Blue Book' provides updated guidance for local councils and practitioners for the design, construction and implementation of measures to improve stormwater management, primarily erosion and sediment control, during the construction-phase of urban development. "--Landcom website.

Author : Eric Wolanski
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 30,3 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0128140046

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Coasts and Estuaries: The Future provides valuable information on how we can protect and maintain natural ecological structures while also allowing estuaries to deliver services that produce societal goods and benefits. These issues are addressed through chapters detailing case studies from estuaries and coastal waters worldwide, presenting a full range of natural variability and human pressures. Following this, a series of chapters written by scientific leaders worldwide synthesizes the problems and offers solutions for specific issues graded within the framework of the socio-economic-environmental mosaic. These include fisheries, climate change, coastal megacities, evolving human-nature interactions, remediation measures, and integrated coastal management. The problems faced by half of the world living near coasts are truly a worldwide challenge as well as an opportunity for scientists to study commonalities and differences and provide solutions. This book is centered around the proposed DAPSI(W)R(M) framework, where drivers of basic human needs requires activities that each produce pressures. The pressures are mechanisms of state change on the natural system and Impacts on societal welfare (including well-being). These problems then require responses, which are the solutions relating to governance, socio-economic and cultural measures (Scharin et al 2016). Covers estuaries and coastal seas worldwide, integrating their commonality, differences and solutions for sustainability Includes global case studies from leading worldwide contributors, with accompanying boxes highlighting a synopsis about a particular estuary and coastal sea, making all information easy to find Presents full color images to aid the reader in a better understanding of details of each case study Provides a multi-disciplinary approach, linking biology, physics, climate and social sciences

Author : D. W. Connell
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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Revised and updated edition of an introductory text, first published in 1974, which outlines some of the most recent advances in knowledge of the behaviour and toxicology of chemicals. Provides a detailed coverage of known water pollutants, as well as discussing the chemical and biological changes resulting from water pollution. Includes references and an index. The author is an associate professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at Griffith University.