Read more
Klappentext This text presents an up-to-date account of environmental hydrology! a contemporary means of describing the basic system of water circulation! patterns of runoff! and how hydrology is altered by development and industry. The author focuses particularly on the utility of river basins andcatchments because they are the basic experimental! data-gathering! and water management units. Numerous methodological frameworks are considered! most of which rely on traditional methods of statistical and scientific analysis. In the case of freshwater environments! however! where key data arerelatively scarce! the author takes a holistic approach by utilizing information regarding policy! law! attitudes! and preferences in the formulation of a theoretical framework. He concludes with a consideration of the utility of our current knowledge of environmental hydrology! providing thereader with a practical look at the conservation of fresh water. This book will be welcomed by conservationists and students and teachers of hydrology. Zusammenfassung This undergraduate textbook is a guide to the scope and content of environmental hydrology. It puts hydrology into its modern environmental context in which the measurements made and the conclusions drawn by hydrology are the focus for management by conservationists, pollution control agencies, and the water industry.
