Sustainable Management of Tropical Catchments

Herausgeber: Harper, David; Brown, Tony

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contents of this book are the syntheses of studies of tropical catchments carried out in three continents ? Central/South America, Africa and Asia ? in the 1990s, mostly through the support of the EU Science and Technology for Development programme. Each chapter reflects on a particular aspect of the seemingly intractable problem: achieving and understanding tropical rural development without compromising longer-term sustainability of the soil and water systems which underpin it. The studies encompass examples of erosion measurement; of scaling measurements from plots to estimates for catchments; of erosion control and conservation techniques at soil and ecosystem levels; of the limits to uses of fragile tropical soils; of the effects of runoff combined with regulation on rivers and reservoirs; of the importance of indigenous people in the development processes and of the value and limitations of modelling at scales from soils to catchment. There is no single message from the book because there is no single solution to the problems of achieving sustainable tropical development. The Sustainable Management of Tropical Catchments presents ideas, techniques and case studies, knowledge of which will help researchers in many scientific and social disciplines to understand the complexities better, and politicians and bureaucrats to understand the consequences of development decisions and learn from the failure of many earlier ones.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780471969143
• ISBN-10: 0471969141
• Artikelnr.: 22137782

Autorenporträt

Hillary Harper is a writer, mother, educator, and dog lover. She has worked in the field of early childhood education since 2006 and loves reading stories aloud to children. This story was inspired by her three dogs, the children she works with, and her dedicated preschool team.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Sustainability in the Context of Tropical Catchments
SOILS, EROSION AND LAND USE
Introduction
From Plot to Basins: The Scale Problem in Studies of Soil Erosionand
Sediment Yield
Remote Sensing and GIS Studies of Erosion Potential for
CatchmentManagement: A Densely Populated Agricultural Catchment inKenya
Socio-economic Aspects of Subsistence Farming and Soil Erosion inTropical
Catchment Management: The Upper Tana, Kenya
Agroecological Practices as Tools for the Sustainable Management
ofCatchments Susceptible to Erosion: Reunion Island
The Importance of Geopedology in Sustainable Use of TropicalCatchments:
Sodic Soils and Land Use Scenarios in NorthernAmazonia
Soil Restoration and Conservation: The "Tepetates" -
Indurated Volcanic Soils - in Mexico
Environmental Management for Sustainable Selective Logging inTropical
Rainforests
Environmental Limits to Sustainable Coffee Cultivation on TropicalSoils:
The Sungai, Pemadang Catchment, Brunei
CATCHMENT CONSERVATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF SUSTAINABLEMANAGEMENT
Introduction
Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests: A Peatland Catchmentin Central
Kalimantan
Catchment Sustainability and River Biodiversity in Asia: A CaseStudy from
Nepal
Conservation of Inland Deltas: A Case Study of the Gash Delta,Sudan
The Importance of People in the Management of TropicalCatchments
Hydrological and Ecological Considerations in the Management of aCatchment
Controlled by a Reservoir Cascade: The Tana River,Kenya
Information for the Sustainable Management of Shallow Lakes: LakeNaivasha,
Kenya
MODELLING: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
Introduction
The Importance of Soil Infiltration Dynamics and Data Uncertainty:Field
Studies on Soils in Zimbabwe
Distributed Numerical Modelling of Surface Runoff and Soil Erosionin Arid
Catchments
Hydrological Modelling in Humid Tropical Catchments
Modelling Lake Level Changes: Examples from the Easter Rift Valley,Kenya
The Influence of Tropical Catchments upon the Coastal Zone:Modelling the
Links between Groundwater and Mangrove Losses inKeyna, India/Bangladesh and
Florida

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"... the authors and editors do a good job in presenting a state of the art review." (Progress in Environmental Science)