Managing Wastewater Coast Urban (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780309048262)

Close to one-half of all Americans live in coastal counties. The resulting flood of wastewater, stormwater, and pollutants discharged into coastal waters is a major concern. This book offers a well-delineated approach to integrated coastal management beginning with wastewater and stormwater control.

The committee presents an overview of current management practices and problems. The core of the volume is a detailed model for integrated coastal management, offering basic principles and methods, a direction for moving from general concerns to day-to-day activities, specific steps from goal setting through monitoring performance, and a base of scientific and technical information. Success stories from the Chesapeake and Santa Monica bays are included.

The volume discusses potential barriers to integrated coastal management and how they may be overcome and suggests steps for introducing this concept into current programs and legislation.

This practical volume will be important to anyone concerned about management of coastal waters: policymakers, resource and municipal managers, environmental professionals, concerned community groups, and researchers, as well as faculty and students in environmental studies.

Author: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences Environment an
ISBN-10: 0309048265
ISBN-13: 9780309048262
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1993
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.99lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.26w x 1.44d