ABSTRACT
This book examines specific features of aquatic habitats, including, streams, rivers, wetlands, ponds, reservoirs, impoundments and lakes, in the urban environment and the means of their protection and sustainable exploitation. The severe degradation of urban aquatic habitats creates constraints for their management, such as those resulting from dense development of adjacent lands or high urban property prices. The book deals with the review of basic concepts and challenges encountered in urban aquatic habitats (UAHs), as well as general strategies for integrating aquatic habitats into urban water management. It provides the reader with technical measures related to urban water habitats management and rehabilitation, as well as their incorporation into urban planning and their role in human health. The book also provides practical examples of existing UAH issues and possible approaches to solving them, in the form of case studies from all over the world.
