Managing Urban Rivers

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. The contents of the book 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”. Managing Urban Rivers is essential reading for  a variety of stakeholders, including aquatic ecologists, limnologists, water environmentalists, and social scientists. Presents practical, global case studies in almost every chapter Provides recommendations for best practices, based on lessons from different successful case studies, and well as the expert insights of the authors Features contributions from global experts for a unique and specialised approached to the topic of Urban Rivers