Sustainable Use and Development of Watersheds

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • İ. Ethem Gönenç, Biymyrza Toktoraliev, John P. Wolflin

      Pages 3-5

3. Watershed Management in Various Countries

   1. Watershed and Water Management System in Algeria

      • Mekki Messahel

      Pages 9-19

   2. Advances in Managing Austria’s Water Resources

      • Monika Schönerklee

      Pages 21-49

   3. Problems and Prospects of Water Resources Management in the Azerbaijan Republic

      • Amir S. Aliev

      Pages 51-59

   4. Water Resources Management System of Kyrgyzstan

      • Mars Amanaliev

      Pages 61-80

   5. Watershed Management Practices in the Philippines: The Tigum-Aganan Watershed Case

      • Jessica C. Salas

      Pages 81-98

   6. Watershed Management System in Poland and Its Implications for Environmental Conditions of the Baltic Sea: An Example of the Vistula River Watershed

      • Eugeniusz Andrulewicz

      Pages 99-111

   7. Watersheds Management in Romania: Challenges and Opportunities

      • Angheluta Vadineanu, Elena Preda

      Pages 113-132

   8. Watershed Management in the Russian Federation and Transboundary Issues by Example of Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia)

      • Boris Chubarenko

      Pages 133-149

   9. Overview of Water Management in Turkey: Issues, Constraints, Achievements, Prospect

      • Selmin Burak

      Pages 151-171

   10. Watershed Management in the United States

       • Rosemarie C. Russo, Brenda Rashleigh, Robert B. Ambrose

       Pages 173-198

4. Decision Support Tools, Models and Case Studies

   1. Multilevel Participatory Model for Decision Making on Regional Hydro-System Basis: Serbian Case Study

      • Bojan Srdjevic, Zorica Srdjevic

      Pages 201-213

   2. Supporting Tools for Decisional Process within Water Framework Directive: From EU Context to Modelkey Perspective

      • Stefania Gottardo, Elena Semenzin, Paola Agostini, Andrea Critto, Antonio Marcomini

      Pages 215-225

   3. Application of Water Quality Modelling as a Decision Support System Tool for Planned Buyuk Melen Reservoir and Its Watershed

      • Ali Erturk, Alpaslan Ekdal, Melike Gurel, Yigit Zorlutuna, Cigdem Tavsan, Dursun Zafer Seker et al.

      Pages 227-242

   4. The Use of Numerical Modeling in Italian Watershed Management

      • Georg Umgiesser, Giorgio Mattassi, Isabella Scroccaro, Marco Ostoich, Marina Vazzoler

      Pages 243-262

   5. Sustainable Development of Watersheds: Using Sturgeon Species as an Indicator in Integrated Transboundary Water Management in the Ural River Basin

      • Viktor Lagutov

      Pages 263-288

   6. Lagoon Ecosystem Study Trough Two Cases: Oualidia (Atlantic) and Nador (Mediterranean) – Morocco

      • Abdellatif Orbi, Karim Hilmi, Jaouad Lakhdar Idrissi, Soukaina Zizah

      Pages 289-298

   7. Coastal Lagoons in the Context of Water Management in Spain and Europe

      • Angel Pérez-Ruzafa, Concepción Marcos

      Pages 299-321

   8. Water Framework Directive: Defining the Ecological Quality Status in Transitional and Coastal Waters

      • Sofia Gamito

      Pages 323-335

John Wesley Powell, U.S. scientist and geographer, put it best when he said that a watershed is: …that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community. Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes. They cross sectorial boundaries (e.g. county, state/province, and country). No matter where you are, you are in a watershed! World-wide, watersheds supply drinking water, provide r- reation and respite, and sustain life. Watersheds are rich in natural capital, producing goods (agriculture and fisheries products) and services (industry and technology) for broad geographic areas. In many countries, at the base of watersheds where tributaries empty into large water-bodies (e.g. estuaries, seas, oceans) are centers of society and are typically densely populated areas. These areas serve as concentrated centers of the socio-economic system. They also are centers of domestic and international trade, tourism, and c- merce as well as the center of governments (capitals) where local, regional and national legislatures are located. As we all live in a watershed, our individual actions can directly affect it. The cumulative effects of all the individual actions of everyone within a watershed may be, and often are devastating to the quality of water resources and affect the health of living things including humans. Therefore, watershed systems are highly subject to threat to human security and peace.

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• water quality and water pollution
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• IGEM Research and Consulting, Istanbul, Turkey

  İ. Ethem Gönenç

• Department of Systems Ecology and Sustainability, University of Bucharest, Romania

  Angheluta Vadineanu

• Chesapeake Bay Coordination Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annapolis, USA

  John P. Wolflin

• Georgia-Oklahoma Center for Research on the Environment, Athens, USA

  Rosemarie C. Russo

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