The Water Environment of Cities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Lawrence A. Baker

   Pages 1-16

3. The Urban Water Budget

   • Claire Welty

   Pages 17-28

4. Groundwater in the Urban Environment

   • Peter Shanahan

   Pages 29-48

5. Urban Infrastructure and Use of Mass Balance Models for Water and Salt

   • Paul Westerhoff, John Crittenden

   Pages 49-68

6. New Concepts for Managing Urban Pollution

   • Lawrence A. Baker

   Pages 69-91

7. Streams and Urbanization

   • Derek B. Booth, Brian P. Bledsoe

   Pages 93-123

8. Urban Water Recreation: Experiences, Place Meanings, and Future Issues

   • Ingrid E. Schneider

   Pages 125-140

9. Urban Design and Urban Water Ecosystems

   • Kristina Hill

   Pages 141-170

10. Legal Framework for the Urban Water Environment

    • Robert W. Adler

    Pages 171-193

11. Institutions Affecting the Urban Water Environment

    • Robert W. Adler

    Pages 195-215

12. Institutional Structures for Water Management in the Eastern United States

    • Cliff Aichinger

    Pages 217-234

13. Adaptive Water Quantity Management: Designing for Sustainability and Resiliency in Water Scarce Regions

    • Jim Holway

    Pages 235-258

14. Demand Management, Privatization, Water Markets, and Efficient Water Allocation in Our Cities

    • K. William Easter

    Pages 259-274

15. Principles for Managing the Urban Water Environment in the 21st Century

    • Lawrence A. Baker, Peter Shanahan, Jim Holway

    Pages 275-289

16. Back Matter

    Pages 291-307

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The concept for the Water Environment of Cities arose from a workshop “Green 1 Cities, Blue Waters” workshop held in 2006. The workshop assembled experts from engineering, planning, economics, law, hydrology, aquatic ecology, geom- phology, and other disciplines to present research ?ndings and identify key new ideas on the urban water environment. At a lunch discussion near the end of the workshop, several of us came to the recognition that despite having considerable expertise in a narrow discipline, none of us had a vision of the “urban water en- ronment” as a whole. We were, as in the parable, blind men at opposite ends of the elephant, knowinga great deal about the parts, but notunderstandingthe whole. We quickly recognized the need to develop a book that would integrate this knowledge to create this vision. The goal was to develop a book that could be used to teach a complete, multidisciplinary course, “The Urban Water Environment”, but could also be used as a supplemental text for courses on urban ecosystems, urban design, landscapearchitecture,water policy,waterqualitymanagement andwatershed m- agement. The book is also valuable as a reference source for water professionals stepping outside their arena of disciplinary expertise. The Water Environment of Cities is the ?rst book to use a holistic, interdis- plinary approach to examine the urban water environment. We have attempted to portrayaholisticvisionbuiltaround theconcept of water as a coreelement ofcities. Water has multipleroles:municipalwatersupply,aquatichabitat,landscapeaesth- ics, and recreation. Increasingly, urban water is reused, serving multiple purposes.

• engineering
• environmental policy
• environmental sciences
• geomorphology
• hydrology
• morphology
• recreation management
• urban planning
• urbanization
• world regional geography
• landscape/regional and urban planning
• water quality and water pollution

From the reviews:

"This work is a collection of 14 interdisciplinary chapters of about 20 pages each, written by a variety of contributors, mostly from universities and research centers, with backgrounds in such areas as economics, law, engineering, sustainability, and urban design. The book … is intended primarily as a resource for a course on the topic of the title, but it is also useful for traditional courses in urban design, water policy or quality management, or watershed management. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (D. A. Vaccari, Choice, Vol. 47 (2), October, 2009)

Dr. Baker is a Senior Fellow in the Minnesota Water Resources Center and owner of WaterThink, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in innovative approaches to water quality management. He had been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University and served as Technical Director for a national synthesis of surface water acidification at EPA’s Corvallis EPA laboratory. His research examines water in human ecosystems, at scales from households to urban regions, with the goal of developing novel approaches for reducing pollution that are more effective, cheaper and fairer than conventional approaches.

He has published more than 100 technical papers, edited one book, Environmental Chemistry of Lakes and Reservoirs, and is on the editorial board of the journal Urban Ecosystems. In addition to technical articles, he frequently writes columns for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, The Minnesota Journal, and several practitioner magazines. His is currently working on a trade book, The End of Pollution.

He has served on a number of environmental science and policy synthesis projects at the national scale and in Minnesota and Arizona.

Chapter authors include Robert W. Adler, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and James I. Farr Chair and Professor at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law; Cliff Aichinger, Administrator for the Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District in St. Paul; Brian Bledsoe, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University; Derek Booth, President and Senior Geologist at Stillwater Sciences, Inc. and an Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering and Earth & Space Sciences at the University of Washington; John Crittenden, the Richard Snell Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University; K. William Easter, Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and former Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy; Kristina Hill, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Virginia; Jim Holway, Associate Director of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University and formerly, Assistant Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources; Ingrid E. Schneider, Professor in the Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota and Director of the University of Minnesota’s Tourism Center; Peter Shanahan, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT; Claire Welty, Director of the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Paul Westerhoff, Professor and Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University.

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