Aquatic Habitats in Sustainable Urban Water

Aquatic habitats supply a wide range of vital ecosystem benefits to cities and their inhabitants. The unsustainable use of aquatic habitats, including inadequate urban water management itself, however, tends to alter and reduce their biodiversity and therewith diminish their ability to provide clean water, protect us from waterborne diseases and pollutants, keep urban areas safe from flooding, and support recreational ecosystem services and even the aesthetic enjoyment of our world.Aquatic Habitats in Sustainable Urban Water Management - the result of collaboration between UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme and its Man and the Biosphere Programme - aims at improving our understanding of aquatic habitats, related ecosystem goods and services, and conservation and sustainable use - with a special focus on their integration into urban water management. The first part of this volume reviews basic concepts and challenges in urban aquatic habitats, as well as strategies for their management integration. The second part examines technical measures related to habitats management and rehabilitation, along with their incorporation into urban planning and their role in human health. The final part looks at current urban aquatic habitat issues and practical approaches to solving them through the lens of case studies from around the globe.

List of Figures	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xv
Acronyms	p. xvii
Glossary	p. xxi1 Introdu
Impact of global processes on water resources in cities	p. 11
Aquatic habitats in integrated urban water management: How are they managed or mismanaged?	p. 21
Comments on urban aquatic habitat management: Restoration, preservation, rehabilitation or remediation?	p. 41
Structure of this book	p. 52 Urban aqu
Characteristics of aquatic habitats	p. 92
Human modifications of aquatic habitats	p. 112
Flow regime	p. 122
Physical habitat structure	p. 132
Biotic interactions	p. 132
Food (energy) sources	p. 142
Chemical variables (water quality)	p. 142
Factor interdependencies	p. 152
Background on aquatic ecosystem functioning	p. 152
Conceptual model of aquatic ecosystem functioning	p. 162
Definition of objectives for preservation or rehabilitation of aquatic ecosystems	p. 192
Selecting preservation or rehabilitation measures	p. 213 Strategi
Strategies for protection and rehabilitation of urban aquatichabitats	p. 253
Sustainable development	p. 263
Ecosystem approach	p. 273
Measuring progress towards sustainability: Criteria and indicators	p. 283
UN Division for Sustainable Development indicators (2006)	p. 283
Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI): Yale University and Columbia University 2005	p. 283
Pillar-based sustainability criteria	p. 303
Urban environmental management approaches	p. 303
Low impact development (LID)	p. 313
Total management of the urban water cycle (TMUWC)	p. 323
Soft path for water	p. 333
Regulations and policies driving the implementation of strategies for urban aquatic habitat''s protection and rehabilitation	p. 343
Approaches focusing on aquatic habitat protection	p. 343
Approaches focusing on water quality protection	p. 353
Integrated regulations and policies addressing aquatic habitats	p. 373
Additional observations concerning developing countries	p. 383
Emerging challenges	p. 394 Ecosensi
Urban water cycle and aquatic habitats	p. 434
Habitat interactions with water supply	p. 454
Managing water import into urban areas	p. 454
Impacts on aquatic habitats imposed by water reservoirs	p. 474
Habitat interactions with urban drainage and flood protection	p. 494
Urban drainage: Problem definition and needs for management	p. 494
Urban drainage impacts on aquatic habitats	p. 494
Overview of aquatic life support conditions in urban waters impacted by stormwater discharges	p. 514
Need for stormwater management	p. 514
Urban drainage: Stormwater management goals	p. 524
Tools for effective stormwater management	p. 534
Guidelines and targets	p. 554
Technological measures (BMPs)	p. 554
Promotion of modern stormwater management	p. 564
Flood protection	p. 584
Habitat interactions with wastewater management and sanitation systems	p. 594
Basic demands on wastewater management systems	p. 604
Wastewater systems without separation of waste streams at the source	p. 614
Water and wastewater reuse for environmental benefits	p. 624
Technology and site selection	p. 634
Concluding observations	p. 645 Aquatic
Assessing the ecological potential of the river	p. 715
Buffering mechanisms	p. 715
Methods for river state assessment	p. 725
Bioassessment	p. 725
Physical and geomorphological assessment	p. 745
Techniques in urban river rehabilitation	p. 745
Rehabilitation of hydrological dynamics of river habitats	p. 765
Attenuation of peak flows using in-catchment or on-watercourse storage reservoirs	p. 765
Managing the high-flow regime in floodplains and riverbeds	p. 785
Assurance of minimum flows during dry weather	p. 785
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