Water Quality Assessments - A guide to the use of biota, sediments and water in environmental monitoring, Second Edition

This guidebook, revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies

List of contents

An Introduction to Water Quality. Strategies for Water Quality Assessment. Selection of Water Quality Variables. The Use of Particulate Material. The Use of Biological Material. Rivers. Lakes. Reservoirs. Groundwater. Data Handling and Presentation. Appendix: Basic Design for Sampling Programmes. Index.

About the author

Deborah Chapman is Director of UNEP GEMS/Water Capacity Development Centre, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Acting Head of Discipline, Environmental Science at the Environmental Research Institute/School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Cork.

Summary

This guidebook, revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies

Product details

• Assisted by: Deborah Chapman (Editor), Deborah V Chapman (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.1996
• EAN: 9780419215905
• ISBN: 978-0-419-21590-5
• No. of pages: 656
• Weight: 997 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, Water industries, Energy industries and utilities, Civil engineering, surveying and building