Early Alert
On SaleCatchment Management and Water Quality of the Great Barrier Reef
Marine & Freshwater Research
Special Issue Volume 60, Number 11
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124 pages Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING November 2009 |
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Coastal catchments and adjacent marine aquatic ecosystems are intricately connected through hydrological, ecological and socio-economic processes. This special issue, guest edited by Frederiecke Kroon, presents integrated research papers on the measurement, modelling and adaptive management of inputs from coastal catchments draining into Australia's World Heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef. The papers are organised following the key components of a water quality improvement plan. First, the key pollutants and their critical sources are identified through a series of studies on water quality monitoring and modelling. Second, land-use and management-practice patterns that most cost-effectively achieve specified pollutant load targets are explored. Third, the planning frameworks and processes for water quality management are evaluated in the context of decentralised approaches to complex environmental management issues. The final paper of this special issue synthesises the main research findings and places them into an international context and provides recommendations for future research.
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