Managing Urban Rivers

From Planning to Practice

Victor R. Shinde, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Uday Bhonde, Hitesh Vaidya

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9780323857031
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323910637
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

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. - Presents practical, global case studies in almost every chapter - Provides recommendations for best practices, based on lessons from different successful case studies, as well as the expert insights of the authors - Features contributions from global experts for a unique and specialized approach to the topic of urban rivers

Table of contents

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