Experiences from Surface Water Quality Monitoring : The EU Water Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part I) (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry)

Munné, Antoni (EDT)/ Ginebreda, Antoni (EDT)/ Prat, Narcís (EDT)

Springer International Publishing AG（2018/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 325 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319795478
• DDC分類 363.7394

Full Description

This book details the
experiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterranean
watershed - the Catalan River Basin District - following the launch of the EU
Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000. Experts in rivers,
reservoirs, lakes, wetlands and estuaries present 13 chapters defining tools
for water-status assessment specially adapted to Mediterranean conditions. The
content of this and the companion volume Experiences
from Ground, Coastal and Transitional Water Quality Monitoring: The EU Water
Framework Directive Implementation in the Catalan River Basin District (Part
II) are the result of an excellent collaboration between the ACA and
several Catalan universities and research centers to cope with new challenges
provided by the WFD monitoring requirements. The volume serves as a useful
guide for environmental managers and scientists engaged in other European as
well as Non-European river basins.

 

Contents

Water
status assessment in the Catalan River Basin District. Experience gathered
after fifteen years with the Water Framework Directive (WFD).- A first
biopollution index approach and its relationship on biological quality in
Catalan rivers.- Use of diatoms to assess the ecological status in Catalan
rivers: application of the WFD and lessons learned from the European
Intercalibration Exercise.- Biological Indices Based on Macrophytes: An
overview of methods used in Catalonia and USA to determine the status of rivers
and wetlands.- Fish as ecological indicators in Mediterranean streams: the
Catalan experience .- Fish-based indices in Catalan Rivers: intercalibration
and comparison of approaches.- Biological indicators to assess the ecological
status of river-dominated estuaries: the case of benthic indicators in the Ebro
River estuary.- New tools to analyse the ecological status of Mediterranean
wetlands and shallow lakes.- Assessing ecological integrity in large reservoirs
accordingto the Water Framework Directive.- Hydromorphological methodologies
to assess ecological status in Mediterranean rivers. Applied approach to the
Catalan River Basin District.- Reviewing biological indices and biomarkers
suitability to analyse human impacts. Emergent tools to analyse biological
status in rivers.- Analysis of EU legislated compounds for assessing chemical
status. Main challenges and inconsistencies.- Pollutants of emerging concern in
rivers of Catalonia: occurrence, fate and risk.