Author: Joseph H. WlosinskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Procedures
Author: Joseph H. WlosinskiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stream measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Operating Plan of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi River System
Author: Jerry L. RasmussenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Long Term Resource Monitoring Porgram 1993 Flood Observations
Author: Environmental Management Technical Center (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Standard Operating Procedures for Spatial Data Processing
Author: Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309114098
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.
The Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making
Author: Daniel SchmoldtPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401597995
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s) has been successfully applied to many complex planning, resource allocation, and priority setting problems in business, energy, health, marketing, natural resources, and transportation, more applications of the AHP in natural resources and environmental sciences are appearing regularly. This realization has prompted the authors to collect some of the important works in this area and present them as a single volume for managers and scholars. Because land management contains a somewhat unique set of features not found in other AHP application areas, such as site-specific decisions, group participation and collaboration, and incomplete scientific knowledge, this text fills a void in the literature on management science and decision analysis for forest resources.
Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Author: Omnibus Water Resources Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Indicators of Ecosystem Structure and Function for the Upper Mississippi River System
Author: Nathan R. De JagerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description