Eutrophication: A Global Environmental Problem Process Management Strategies

This book critically analyzes the reasons for the lack of tangible success in preventing progressing eutrophication and its negative effects as a global environmental problem without a clear solution until now. Particular attention of the authors will be paid to the currently existing approaches to setting the ecological standards for the nutrients content in surface waters and wastewater, the appropriate selection of wastewater treatment technology, the issues of monitoring and trophic status assessment, and the approach to managing this process. Also, the book provides a proposed systemic approach to managing the eutrophication process to mitigate its dangerous ecological, economic, and social effects and to preserve the biospheric functions of aquatic ecosystems.

The target audience for this book - a wide range of specialists in water management and protection, water-and-wastewater technologies, and spatial planning, as well as lawyers and economists for environmental protection, medical workers, upper undergraduate students, postgraduate students, researchers and stakeholders.

Introduction.- Historical overview.- Unobvious effects of eutrophication.- The complexity of the problem.- The share of different nutrient sources and their impact.- Monitoring of the eutrophication process and methods of trophic state assessment.- The specificity of eutrophication process-case studies.- Analysis of existing approaches in managing the eutrophication process.- Concept of optimizing the eutrophication process management strategies.- Discussion and Conclusions.

Professor Elena Neverova-Dziopak is a graduate of the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Saint Petersburg (Russia), defended her doctoral thesis at the Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) and currently working at the AGH University of  Krakow, Poland, at the Department of Environmental Management and Protection of the Faculty of Geo-Data?Science,?Geodesy,?and? Environmental? Engineering. She was also an academic teacher at the Kielce University of Technology, Czestochowa Technical University, Jan Dlugosz University In Czestochowa (Poland) and gave lectures at Turku University (Finland).

The scope of her scientific interests concerns the protection and rational use of water resources, with particular emphasis on eutrophication processes. She deals with the development of ecological standards for biogenic substances in surface waters, the determination of the permissible loads of pollutants introduced into water recipients and the assessment of their ecological capacity. Her interests also include the development of methods for assessing the trophic status of waters. Another aspect of her research is the development of the approaches for optimal wastewater treatment technologies selection in order to reduce their impact on eutrophication processes intensification, as well as various aspects of circular economy in the field of water and wastewater management.

Dr. Eng. Zbigniew Kowalewski is an assistant professor at Faculty of Mining Surveying and Environmental Engineering at AGH University of Krakow. He has a Ph.D from Department of Environmental Management and Protection at AGH University  (year 2012 – “Verification of the possibility of using an integral criterion to assess the trophic status of running waters”). His research focuses on eutrophication and wastewater. He is mainly interested in eutrophication assessment methods and models also in modeling water interactions in ecosystems. Avid user of R language in data analysis and statistics.