The Lakes Handbook: Lake Restoration and Rehabilitation Volume 2

Continuing concern about water supply and quality, ecosystem sustainability and restoration demands that the modern approach to the management of lakes and reservoirs should be based on a sound understanding of the application of the scientific and ecological principles that underlie freshwater processes. The Lakes Handbook provides an up-to-date overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools using experience gained around the world for an understanding of lakes and their management. Volume one of the Handbook addresses the physical and biological aspects of lakes pertinent to lake management, emphasising those aspects particularly relevant to large, still bodies of water. Volume two then considers lake management, with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation. This handbook will be invaluable to ecologists, environmental scientists, physical geographers and hydrologists involved in limnological research, as well as advanced undergraduate and graduate students looking for authoritative reviews of the key areas of limnological study. The Lakes Handbook......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 List of Contributors......Page 9 Part I General Issues......Page 11 1 On the Value of Lakes......Page 13 2 The Assault on the Quality and Value of Lakes......Page 35 Part II Regional Studies......Page 73 3 The North American Great Lakes: a Laurentian Great Lakes Focus......Page 75 4 Lake Washington......Page 106 5 Lakes of Northern Europe......Page 127 6 European Alpine Lakes......Page 169 7 Lake Baikal and other Great Lakes of Asia......Page 189 8 Lakes in Arid Environments......Page 210 9 Floodplain Lakes and Reservoirs in Tropical and Subtropical South America:Limnology and Human Impacts......Page 251 Part III Human Impact on Specific Lake Types......Page 269 10 Eutrophication of Shallow Temperate Lakes......Page 271 11 Eutrophication of Shallow Tropical Lakes......Page 289 12 Reservoirs and other Artificial Water Bodies......Page 310 Part IV Lake and Catchment Models......Page 339 13 The Export Coefficient Approach to Prediction of Nutrient Loadings: Errors and Uncertainties in the British Experience......Page 341 14 The Phosphorus Loading Concept and the OECD Eutrophication Programme: Origin, Application and Capabilities......Page 364 15 Models of Lakes and Reservoirs......Page 396 16 The Assessment, Management and Reversal of Eutrophication......Page 448 17 Biomanipulation in Shallow Lakes: Concepts,Case Studies and Perspectives......Page 472 18 Restoring Acidified Lakes:an Overview......Page 493 Part V Legal Frameworks......Page 509 19 The Framework for Managing Lakes in the USA......Page 511 20 Nordic Lakes ΠWater Legislation with Respect to Lakes in Finland and Sweden......Page 521 21 The Problem of Rehabilitating Lakes and Wetlands in Developing Countries:the Case Example of East Africa......Page 533 22 South Africa ΠTowards Protecting our Lakes......Page 544 Index......Page 553 Patrick O'Sullivan is Principal Lecturer in Environmental Science at the University of Plymouth, UK. His research has mainly been conducted into the development through time of lake-watershed ecosystems, and the reconstruction of those ontogenies using palaeolimnological and documentary proxy records. Throughout his teaching career, he has concentrated on development of interdisciplinary programmes in Environmental Science, and the interface between the scientific understanding of human impact upon natural processes in lakes, and the economic and philosophical ideas which lie behind the soluti This overview of the application of ecologically sound approaches, methods and tools uses experience gained around the world for an understanding of rivers and their management. This volume considers lake management with particular emphasis on sustainability, restoration and rehabilitation