Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem
eBook - PDF

Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem

  1. 416 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem

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Focusing on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management, this interdisciplinary author team focuses on bettering land use practices and the condition of soil water resources.
Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem is a volume composed from an international symposium of the world's leading experts

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
1999
eBook ISBN
9781420074420
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Editor
  5. Contributors
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Rationale for Watershed as a Basis for Sustainable Management of Soil and Water Resources
  9. Watershed Management for Soil Erosion Control
  10. Chapter 2. Challenges in Ecosystem Management in a Watershed Context in Asia
  11. Chapter 3. Operative Processes for Sediment-Based Watershed Degradation in Small, Tropical Volcanic Island Ecosystems
  12. Chapter 4. Soil Degradation in Relation to Land Use and Its Countermeasures in the Red and Yellow Soil Region of Southern China
  13. Chapter 5. Watershed Management for Erosion Control on Sloping Lands in Asia
  14. Chapter 6. Watershed Management for Erosion Control in Steeplands of Tropical Asia and Australia
  15. Chapter 7. Watershed Characteristics and Management Effects on Dissolved Load in Water Runoff: Case Studies from Western Nigeria
  16. Technological Options for Watershed Management
  17. Chapter 8. Sustaining a Riceā€“Wheat System in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: The Ecoregional Context
  18. Chapter 9. A Landscape that Unites: Community-Led Management of Andean Watershed Resources
  19. Chapter 10. Agroecological Impacts of Five Years of Practical Program for Restoration of a Degraded Sahelian Watershed
  20. Chapter 11. Natural Resource Management on a Watershed Scale: What Can Agroforestry Contribute?
  21. Chapter12. Crop Yield Variability Due to Erosion on a Complex Landscape in West Central Ohio
  22. Chapter 13. A Landscape/Lifescape Approach to Sustainability in the Tropics: The Experience of the SANREM CRSP at Three Sites
  23. Chapter 14. Model-Based Evaluation of Land Use and Management Strategies in a Nitrate-Polluted Drinking Water Catchment in North Germany
  24. Chapter 15. Quantification of Leached Pollutants into the Groundwater Caused by Agricultural Land Use ā€” Model-Based Scenario Studies as a Method for Quantitative Risk Assessment of Groundwater Pollution
  25. Socioeconomic Aspects of Watershed Management
  26. Chapter 16. The Economics of Land Restoration and Conservation in an Environmentally Sound Agriculture
  27. Chapter 17. Economic Analysis of Sedimentation Impacts for Watershed Management
  28. Chapter 18. Land Degradation and Food Security: Economic Impacts of Watershed Degradation
  29. Chapter 19. People, Property, and Profit in Catchment Management: Examples from Kenya and Elsewhere
  30. Chapter 20. The Participatory Multipurpose Watershed Project: Natureā€™s Salvation or Schumacherā€™s Nightmare?
  31. Chapter 21. Peopleā€™s Involvement in Watershed Management: Lessons from Working among Resource-Poor Farmers
  32. Environment Quality and Watershed Management
  33. Chapter 22. Watershed Management for Mitigating the Greenhouse Effect
  34. Chapter 23. Managing Watershed for Food Security and Environmental Quality: Challenges for the 21st Century
  35. Index
  36. Back cover