Watershed Health Monitoring: Emerging Technologies
Features
Summary
Watershed Health Monitoring: Emerging Technologies is a concise reference that defines the concept of watershed health and explains that monitoring the health of watersheds is a critical precursor to adaptive resource management on a watershed basis. The focus of the text is a clear description of an innovative "Closed Loop" model that specifies four key aspects of successful monitoring programs: political linkages and support, sound scientific assessment techniques, a community education and awareness component; and a sustainable cost-recovery framework achieved through partnership.
Divided into two sections, the book begins with an introduction that defines watershed health, explains how monitoring fits into watershed planning and management, describes frequent shortfalls of monitoring programs around the world (with an emphasis on North America) and proposes a "Closed Loop" approach that will help ensure successful programs. Subsequent chapters detail each component of the "Closed Loop" model with special emphasis on scientific assessment. The second part features a set of six case studies that describe successful real-world applications of the "Closed Loop" approach to watershed monitoring.
Written in an easily understood manner with the practitioner in mind, Watershed Health Monitoring balances the need for a detailed yet concise treatment of the topic of watershed health monitoring. It is the first book to recognize the multidisciplinary nature of successful monitoring programs-programs that go far beyond science.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Problem Statement
Background
Objective and Format
Definition of Watershed Health
The Foundation of Watershed Management: A Lead Group and a Plan
The Closed-Loop Watershed Health Monitoring Model
POLITICAL LINKAGES AND SUPPORTS
Rationale
Creating Political Linkages
Avoiding Pitfalls
SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENTS
Rationale
Surveillance and Performance Evaluation
The Three-Tiered Surface Water Assessment Model
Data Quality Assurance and Control
GIS and Modeling Tools
COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND AWARENESS
Rationale
Techniques for Educating the Watershed Community
Avoiding Pitfalls
COST RECOVERY THROUGH PARTNERSHIP
Rationale
A Cost Recovery and Partnering Model
Guiding Principles
Case Study 1: The Laurel Creek Watershed Monitoring Program
Case Study 2: Developing an Environmental Monitoring Program for the Uxbridge Brook Watershed Plan
Case Study 3: Integrated Stormwater and Watershed Management System® - An Emerging Tool for Watershed Health Planning and Monitoring
Case Study 4: Advanced Remote Sensing Technologies for Watershed Health Monitoring
Case Study 5: The Lake Simcoe Environmental Management Strategy
Case Study 6: Applying the Closed-Loop Model to Improve Water Quality in the Yuqiao Reservoir, Tianjin, China
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