Catchment and River Basin Management Integrating Science and Governance

Foreword 

Philip Lowe, Director, Rural Economy and Land Use Programme 

Part 1: Overview 

1. The Challenge of Protecting Water Resources: an Introduction and the Purposes of this Book 

Laurence Smith, Keith Porter, Kevin Hiscock, David Benson and Mary Jane Porter 

2. Key Questions about Catchment Management 

Laurence Smith, David Benson and Keith Porter 

Part 2: Case Studies 

3. The Upper Susquehanna River Basin: Headwaters of a National Treasure – The Chesapeake Bay 

Mary Jane Porter, Keith Porter, James Curatolo, Mike Lovegreen and Laurence Smith 

4. New York City Watershed Program: A National Paradigm? 

Keith Porter and Laurence Smith 

5. The Hudson River Watershed, New York State, USA 

Mary Jane Porter, Keith Porter and Laurence Smith 

6. Healthy Waterways, South East Queensland, Australia 

Laurence Smith, David Benson and Diane Tarte 

7. Groundwater Protection Programmes in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands 

Laurence Smith, David Benson and Kevin Hiscock 

8. The WWF RIPPLE Project (Rivers Involving People, Places and Leading by Example), Ulster, Northern Ireland 

Alex Inman and Mark Horton 

9. Opening up Catchment Science: an Experiment in Loweswater, Cumbria, England 

Claire Waterton, Stephen C. Maberly, Lisa Norton, Judith Tsouvalis, Nigel Watson, and Ian J. Winfield 

Part 3: Lessons for Catchment and River Basin Management 

10. Getting Started: Partnerships, Collaboration, Participation and the Role of Law 

Laurence Smith, Keith Porter and David Benson 

11. Getting Informed: Tools and Approaches for Assessment, Planning and Management 

Laurence Smith, Kevin Hiscock, Keith Porter, Tobias Krueger and David Benson 

12. Getting Things Done and Getting Results 

Laurence Smith, Keith Porter and David Benson 

13. Conclusions and Future Challenges 

Laurence Smith, Keith Porter, David Benson and Kevin Hiscock

Biography

Laurence Smith is Professor of Environmental Policy and Development in the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, SOAS, University of London, UK. 

Keith Porter is Adjunct Professor at Cornell Law School and the former Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. 

Kevin Hiscock is Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK. 

Mary Jane Porter is recently retired from the New York State Water Resources Institute, Cornell University, USA. 

David Benson is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter, UK, based at the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) in Penryn, Cornwall.

"The authors correctly note that, while people will generally want higher water quality, there are numerous trade-offs that would diminish their willingness to change behaviours that negatively affect water quality and quantity. Water pollution could thus be regarded as a ‘market failure’, requiring intervention by policymakers such as regulation, incentives and voluntary agreements with land users, self-regulation, education campaigns, etc." – African Journal of Aquatic Science, John P Simaika, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

"The book will be particularly useful to those engaged in Catchment Partnerships through Defra's Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) programme, whether in pointing out ways forward or giving confidence that persistence with building communites of practice will gain success in the longer term - anyone strarting in catchment management will soon realise that developments do not happen overnight!" - Bob Harris, Costal Futures