03776nam 22004573 450 991091778980332120251116213803.097898196047089819604702(MiAaPQ)EBC31837021(Au-PeEL)EBL31837021(CKB)37018325500041(OCoLC)1482822603(BIP)119507034(BIP)118517306(EXLCZ)993701832550004120241217d2025 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierManaging Urban River Ecosystems for Achieving Regional Sustainability in the Pearl River Delta Region1st ed.Singapore :Springer,2025.©2024.1 online resource (177 pages)Urban Sustainability Series9789819604692 9819604699 This book provides a systematic understanding of urban river management from the perspective of ecosystem health in the Pearl River Delta region of China, where rapid socio-economic development happens together with exploitation and pollution of the natural environment. Urban rivers, which used to support navigation and provide water resources to humans, now suffer from various kinds of ecosystem degradation and thus create threats to regional sustainability. This book treats the urban river as an ecosystem which closely relates to and interacts with humans and defines urban river ecosystem health as a requirement at three levels: sensorial fitness, living water, and affinity with humans, which emphasizes more on the human-oriented needs. The evolution processes of urban river ecosystem health protection can generally be divided into four phases, demonstrating the relationships between human activities and UREH status as simple balance, uncontrolled imbalance, continuous interlocking, and stable harmony. The relationships between typical urban rivers and humans in the Pearl River Delta region, China, are then analyzed on both regional and local scales and from lateral, time-longitudinal, and spatial dimensions. Intensive human activities, together with the intrinsic complex and high-density river network, result in deteriorating water quality, changing hydrological conditions, and damaging the river ecosystem in this region. From the perspective of political ecology, various actors in urban river management include governmental agencies, business, multilateral institutions, ENGOs, and grassroots actors, whose unequal power relations vary over time and space, causing conflicts as well as coordination. Especially, different governmental agencies are engaged, resulting into overlap and gap among their functions as well as spatial discrepancy. River Chief System, as a new practice of urban river management, has strengthened the collaboration effect and got success in river pollution control. The spatial scale effect of human activities on urban river water quality is examined, implying the necessity of adopting a unified management strategy at the buffer zone scale to protect and restore urban river ecosystem health. The target audience of this book includes postgraduate students and researchers who have research interests in, as well as government officers, whose routine is related to water management.Urban Sustainability Series333.9162095127Liu Hui274539MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910917789803321Managing Urban River Ecosystems for Achieving Regional Sustainability in the Pearl River Delta Region4303723UNINA01156nam 2200205zu 450 99669584330331620260108111035.0(CKB)37900334000041(UnM)99863489(EXLCZ)993790033400004120250319|1657uuuu || |engur|||||||||||Catholique Divinity: Or, The Most Solid And Sententious Expressions Of The Primitive Doctors Of The Church : With Other Ecclesiastical, And Civil Authors: Dilated Upon, And Fitted To The Explication Of The Most Doctrinal Texts Of Scripture, In A Choice Way Both For The Matter, And The Language And Very Useful For The Pulpit, And These TimesProQuest, UMI1657Stuart837027BOOK996695843303316Catholique Divinity: Or, The Most Solid And Sententious Expressions Of The Primitive Doctors Of The Church : With Other Ecclesiastical, And Civil Authors: Dilated Upon, And Fitted To The Explication Of The Most Doctrinal Texts Of Scripture, In A Choice Way Both For The Matter, And The Language And Very Useful For The Pulpit, And These Times4502004UNISA