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Informationen zum Autor Professor Tockner received a PhD from the University of Vienna. He has special expertise on freshwater biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and river and wetland restoration and management. He has published about 250 scientific papers including more than 180 ISI papers. Klement Tockner has successfully managed large inter- and transdisciplinary projects such as the EC-funded project BioFresh on freshwater biodiversity. He is member of several scientific committees and advisory boards, and elected member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Germany Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. Klappentext The EU-Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a legislative framework to protect and improve the quality of all water resources including rivers. "Good status" of all European rivers must be achieved by 2015. Based on the bestselling book, Rivers of North America, this new guide stands as the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more than 180 of the highest profile rivers in Europe. With numerous full-color photographs and maps, this book includes conservation information on current patterns of river use and the extent to which human society has exploited and impacted them. Rivers of Europe provides the information ecologists and conservation managers need to better assess their management and meet the EU legislative good governance targets. Zusammenfassung A source of comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of the highest profile rivers in Europe. It includes conservation information on patterns of river use and extent to which human society has exploited them. It covers more than 180 rivers with their hydrology. It also contains color photographs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Forward 1. General Overview 2. Volga River Basin 3. Danube River Basin 4. Iberian Rivers 5. Continental Atlantic Rivers 6. Rhine River Basin 7. Rhone River Basin 8. Rivers of the Fenno-Scandinavian Shield 9. Arctic Rivers 10. British and Irish Rivers 11. Rivers of the Balkan 12. Italian Rivers 13. Western Steppic Rivers 14. Rivers of the Central Highlands and Plains 15. Rivers of the Boreal Uplands 16. Baltic and Eastern Continental Rivers 17. Rivers of Anatolia and the Caucasus 18. Ural River Basin 19. Perspectives...
