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