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Managing Urban Rivers

From Planning to Practice

  • 1st Edition - September 23, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Victor R. Shinde, Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Uday Bhonde, Hitesh Vaidya
  • Language: English

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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. Sections 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”.

Key features

  • Presents practical, global case studies in almost every chapter
  • Provides recommendations for best practices, based on lessons from different successful case studies, as well as the expert insights of the authors
  • Features contributions from global experts for a unique and specialized approach to the topic of urban rivers

Readership

Academicians and scientists from different backgrounds i.e. environmental science, limnology, water engineering management, social scientists

Table of contents

  1. Cities and rivers: a symbiotic relationship
  2. Urban river management:scope and spectrum
  3. Mainstreaming ‘River-Thinking’into a city’s long-term vision
  4. Mainstreaming river thinking into urban planning
  5. Understanding riverfront developments: through time, function, and drivers for transformation
  6. Urban wetlands and water bodies
  7. Enhancing and conserving urban biodiversity
  8. Urban river pollution control
  9. Enriching and maintaining the riparian buffer zone
  10. Addressing urban extensions on floodplains
  11. Economics of sustainable urban river management
  12. Students breaking barriers: workshops as brokers in riverfront collaboration and design
  13. Nine steps towards rehabilitation and restoration of degraded urban rivers
  14. Urban river governance
  15. Urban river health assessment and management
  16. Citizen participation in urban river management
  17. Urban river management by innovative monitoring
  18. Future considerations for managing urban rivers

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 23, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editors

VS

Victor R. Shinde

Victor R. Shinde has more than 17 years of experience as a scientist and technical expert (water and environment) in nine countries in Asia and Africa. His areas of expertise include urban river management, integrated water resources management, and water security enhancement. He has led the development of several national-level tools, framework, guidelines, and advisories for managing urban rivers.
Affiliations and expertise
Sector Coordinator for Water and Environment, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, India

RM

Rajiv Ranjan Mishra

Rajiv Ranjan Mishra is a former Director General of the National Mission for Clean Ganga—an ambitious flagship by the Indian government with projects worth USD 3.73 billion. In that position, he drove the strategy and agenda for the mission in the most populous basin in the world for effective abatement of pollution, conservation, and rejuvenation of the River Ganges and its tributaries.
Affiliations and expertise
Director General, Organization: National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) under Ministry of JalShakti, India

UB

Uday Bhonde

Uday Bhonde has more than 18 years of research and practical experience in urban lake management, water resilient cities, innovations in urban water and sanitation and hygiene, and urban flood resilience. He has developed several capacity building programs on sustainable urban water and sanitation management for the Ministry of Urban Development (India)and other international organizations.
Affiliations and expertise
Project Coordinator for Water and Environment, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, India

HV

Hitesh Vaidya

Hitesh Vaidya has more than 20 years of experience in the field of urban management, urban governance, and capacity building. He has been associated in the areas of urban development, urban governance, and urban infrastructure management with the UN, World Bank, and US Agency for International Development assignments. Formerly, he was the Country Representative of UN-Habitat in India.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, India

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