Catchment and River Basin Management

Foreword Philip Lowe, Director, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Part 1: Overview 1. The Challenge of Protecting Water Resources: an Introduction and the Purposes of this Book Laurence Smith, Keith Porter, Kevin Hiscock, David Benson and Mary Jane Porter 2. Key Questions about Catchment Management Laurence Smith, David Benson and Keith Porter Part 2: Case Studies 3. The Upper Susquehanna River Basin: Headwaters of a National Treasure â" The Chesapeake Bay Mary Jane Porter, Keith Porter, James Curatolo, Mike Lovegreen and Laurence Smith 4. New York City Watershed Program: A National Paradigm? Keith Porter and Laurence Smith 5. The Hudson River Watershed, New York State, USA Mary Jane Porter, Keith Porter and Laurence Smith 6. Healthy Waterways, South East Queensland, Australia Laurence Smith, David Benson and Diane Tarte 7. Groundwater Protection Programmes in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands Laurence Smith, David Benson and Kevin Hiscock 8. The WWF RIPPLE Project (Rivers Involving People, Places and Leading by Example), Ulster, Northern Ireland Alex Inman and Mark Horton 9. Opening up Catchment Science: an Experiment in Loweswater, Cumbria, England Claire Waterton, Stephen C. Maberly, Lisa Norton, Judith Tsouvalis, Nigel Watson, and Ian J. Winfield Part 3: Lessons for Catchment and River Basin Management 10. Getting Started: Partnerships, Collaboration, Participation and the Role of Law Laurence Smith, Keith Porter and David Benson 11. Getting Informed: Tools and Approaches for Assessment, Planning and Management Laurence Smith, Kevin Hiscock, Keith Porter, Tobias Krueger and David Benson 12. Getting Things Done and Getting Results Laurence Smith, Keith Porter and David Benson 13. Conclusions and Future Challenges Laurence Smith, Keith Porter, David Benson and Kevin Hiscock