Overview
- Portrays the diverse attributes of mountain waters and elucidates their importance for future ecological and societal development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC, volume 6)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Alpine Water Resources
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Biogeochemistry and Pollution of Alpine Waters
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Ecology of Alpine Waters
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Case Studies
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Back Matter
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About this book
Most of the world’s mountains are rich in water and, as such, play a pivotal role in the global water cycle. They provide water for diverse human uses and ecosystems. Growing water demands as well as climate change will lead to ever-increasing pressure on mountain waters. Overcoming water-use conflicts and maintaining the ecological functioning of mountain waters presents a highly challenging task and is indispensable for sustainable development.
This book extensively portrays the highly diverse attributes of mountain waters and demonstrates their paramount importance for ecological and societal development. The extensive summaries on the scientific basics of mountain waters are supplemented with considerations on the diverse water uses, needs for management actions, and challenges regarding sustainable water management. This overview concerns not only the mountain areas themselves but also downriver reaches and their surrounding lowlands, and, therefore, the relationship between mountain and lowland water issues.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The aim of this particular volume is to portray the highly diverse and complex nature of mountain waters … . Alpine Waters – meets these aims in all respects … . offers a good insight into the complex hydrological and biochemical nature of alpine regions, with a lot of sound analysis and good conclusions. … I have no hesitation in recommending this volume to all who have an interest in freshwater in high mountain regions … .” (Arthur J. Askew, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Vol. 56 (1), 2011)
“An exhaustive collection of reviews on the physical, chemical, and biological hydrology of the western Alps and will be welcomed by researchers in mountain areas everywhere. For workers in European mountains, it provides a starting point and source; for scientists elsewhere, it offers a generally good review of recent research in the Alps and a source of the primary materials on which that review is based. … chapter includes reference lists … which will, perhaps, be its greatest value to researchers and students outside Europe.” (Nel Caine, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 32 (1), February, 2012)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Alpine Waters
Editors: Ulrich Bundi
Series Title: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88275-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-88274-9Published: 04 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26216-6Published: 04 May 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-88275-6Published: 01 December 2009
Series ISSN: 1867-979X
Series E-ISSN: 1616-864X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 278
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Hydrology/Water Resources, Hydrogeology, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Geochemistry, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution