Catchment Management and coral reef conservation: a practical guide for coastal resource managers to reduce damage from catchment areas based on best practice case studies

This book aims to help people manage coral reefs and other coastal ecosystems; especially to solve problems that flow
from nearby catchment (watershed) areas. Such catchment areas may be adjacent to the coral reef, or include areas a
long way away and outside the jurisdiction and control of the coastal manager. This book introduces ways to reduce some
of that damage through cooperation with people and industries upstream, based on the experiences of many coastal
managers around the world.
A catchment area is defined as all the land that channels rainwater and groundwater into a river or stream, that then
delivers water to coastal areas, in this case areas that contain coral reefs. The term catchment is often interchangeable
with watershed, which is particularly used in the USA and nearby countries. However, watershed is also used to describe
the boundary line between two catchment areas i.e. a line drawn across the tops of hills or mountains.

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Call Number: 363.94 CAT [EL]

ISBN/ISSN: 642-322228-7

Physical Description: 120 p.|108 pages