Saving Bays and Estuaries - A Primer for Establishing and Managing Estuary Projects

Type
Publication
Authors
USEPA ( United States Environmental Protection Agency )
USEPA-OMEP ( US Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Marine and Estuarine Protection )
 
Category
SCIWC Library  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1989 
Pages
108 
Subject
Managing Estuary Projects 
Abstract
"Foreword

A Primer for Establishing and Managing Estuary Projects is designed to help guide estuary and other coastal area programs as they grapple with the management of estuarine and coastal resources. As more and more of our nation's people move toward our coastlines, these areas experience increasing stress. Burdened with the demands of various interests - agriculture, recreation, conservation, fishing, manufacturing, mining - state and local decision makers have sought new ways to better manage coastal area resources. The National Estuary Program is attempting, through this document and other management tools, to support these state and local efforts..." 
Description
This document is focused on the National Estuary Program and the planning of a management framework for estuaries.

Topic Include:
- National Estuary Program: An Overview
- The Planning Initiative: Building a Management Framework
- Characterization and Problem Definition
- The Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan
- Implementing the CCMP
- Appendixes (Federal Financial Assistance Under the National Estuary Program, Building an Effective Public Participation Program, Using Finfish as Indicators of Toxic Contamination, Summary for the Guidance Manual for Health Risk Assessment for Consumption of Chemically Contaminated Fish and Shellfish
- Alternative Financing
- Citizen Monitoring  
Number of Copies

REVIEWS (0) -

No reviews posted yet.

WRITE A REVIEW

Please login to write a review.