Managing Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice

ISBN-13: 9780323857031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Victor R. Shinde; Rajiv Ranjan Mishra; Uday Bhonde

Opis

Managing Urban Rivers: From Planning to Practice captures the different facets of river management required for integrating rivers within the development landscape of cities in a sustainable manner. Sections cover the entire spectrum of urban river management, from planning to actual on-the-ground implementation, providing a one-stop destination for knowledge on urban river management. Edited by a team of four experts with practical experience in this domain, the different chapters of the book are authored by eminent scholars and practitioners with expertise in specific areas of urban river management. Urban rivers and their management is a hot topic as governments across the world are focusing on this aspect, especially since it has direct implications for SDG target 6.6, which aims to “protect and restore water-related ecosystems, including mountains, forests, wetlands, rivers, aquifers and lakes”.

Spis treści

1. Cities and rivers: a symbiotic relationship
2. Urban river management:scope and spectrum
3. Mainstreaming 'River-Thinking'into a city's long-term vision
4. Mainstreaming river thinking into urban planning
5. Understanding riverfront developments: through time, function, and drivers for transformation
6. Urban wetlands and water bodies
7. Enhancing and conserving urban biodiversity
8. Urban river pollution control
9. Enriching and maintaining the riparian buffer zone
10. Addressing urban extensions on floodplains
11. Economics of sustainable urban river management
12. Students breaking barriers: workshops as brokers in riverfront collaboration and design
13. Nine steps towards rehabilitation and restoration of degraded urban rivers
14. Urban river governance
15. Urban river health assessment and management
16. Citizen participation in urban river management
17. Urban river management by innovative monitoring
18. Future considerations for managing urban rivers