Water Quality

Jim Perry and Elizabeth Leigh Vanderklein are the authors of Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource, published by Wiley.

• Preface viiAcknowledgements xiii1 Water quality management: an evolving field for changing values 12 History of water quality management: the problem and its science 293 Attitudes, goals, and management strategies 454 Global water resources and how they are used: the expression of goals and objectives 615 Developing standards from the traditions of toxicology 796 classification and environmental quality assessment: the search for ecologically accurate aquatic metrics 1077 The role of scale issues in water quality management 1278 Water and the hydrologic cycle 1439 rivers and streams: one-way flow systems 15910 Groundwater and water quality: water to live on 18311 Coastal zone water quality management 20712 Lakes and water quality impacts 22913 Wetlands: productive, vital, cleansing, and threatened 24914 Structuring water management goals by ecological level 26715 Responses to stress at the ecosystem, community, population, and individual levels 28716 Regionalization in natural resource management: Ecoregions 30517 Effects of land use on water quality 32118 Management of water quality in a forested landscape 34519 Management of water quality in an agricultural landscape 37120 Management of water quality in an urban landscape 39721 Special issue: cultural eutrophication 42522 Special issue: acidification of fresh water resources 44523 Special issue: global change: a proactive management challenge 46524 Special issue: exotics: a special biological pollutant 48725 Cultural dimensions of water quality policy 51126 Paradigms in motion: integrated approaches to water quality policy 53527 Decision making in practice: case studies 561Literature Cited and References 589Index 607