Integrated Watershed Management: Perspectives and Problems

ISBN-13: 9789400792630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 273 str.

E. Beheim; G. S. Rajwar; M. Haigh

Opis

Headwaters are fragile environments threatened by anthropogenic actions. The regeneration of headwaters calls for a practical approach through integrated environmental management. This book discusses various issues concerning headwater regions of the world under wide-ranging themes: climate change impacts, vegetal cover, sub-surface hydrology, catchment and streamflow hydrology, pollution, water quality and limnology, remote sensing and GIS, environmental impact assessment and mitigation, socio-economic impacts, public participation, education and management, and integrated watershed management. This book aims to bring about an awareness in sustainable regeneration of headwater regions and particularly highlighting the problems of environmental management in highlands and headwaters. These regions consist of great reserves of natural resources which need to be exploited and managed sustainably.

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Preface About the Editors Section A - Sustainable Watershed Management 1. Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources Martin J. Haigh 2. Social Science Contributions to Multiple Objective Decision Making within Watersheds Ted L. Napier 3. Managing Headwater Regions in Australia: Assessing Socioeconomic and Resource Sustainability John Cary 4. Building Co-operations, Coalitions and Governance on Mountain Catchments Sustainability Pier Carlo Zingari 5. Developing Sustainability Priorities with a Participatory Process: Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa Leif Lillehammer, Terje Kleven, Tore Hagen, Mark Bain and David Lewis 6. Management of Headwaters in Acidified Areas along the West Coast of Norway Atle Hindar, Yvan Orsolini and Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle Section B - Catchment and Streamflow Hydrology 7. Monitoring for Modelling Reality and Sound Economics Ian Cordery and Peter S. Cloke 8. The Nile Headwaters: Wetlands and Catchments in Highland Ethiopia Adrian Wood, Ato Afework Hailu and Alan Dixon 9. Changing Flow in the Okavango Basin: Upstream Developments and Downstream Effects J. Wilk, L. Andersson, P. Wolski, D. Kgathi, S. Ringrose and C. Vanderpost 10. Bedrock Groundwater as a Major Control on Streamflow Generation in Upland Wales, UK Atul H. Haria and Paul Shand 11. CRENODAT (Biodiversity Assessment and Integrity Evaluation of Springs of Trentino (Italian Alps) and Long-term Ecological Research): Project Design and Preliminary Results Marco Cantonati, Ermanno Bertuzzi and Alessia Scalfi Section C - Quality, Pollution and Management of Water Resources 12. Water as a Symbol of National Identity in Norway Helena Nynas 13. Assessing Renewable Water Resources and Water Use in Angola David A. Wright, Kjetil Sandsbråten and Olav Osvoll 14. Water Management Issues in Middle Mountain Catchments of the Nepal Himalayas: The Downstream Perspective Juerg Merz, Pradeep M. Dangol, Madhav P. Dhakal, Bhawani S. Dongol, Gopal Nakarmi, Pravakar B. Shah and RolfWeingartner 15. Inventorisation of Environmental Risk Associated with Hazardous Waste Generated in Small Scale Industrial Area of Delhi, India Preeti Saxena and Asim K. Bhattacharyya 16. The Impact of Land Use on Nutrient Concentration in Upper Streams of Waters in Slovenia Marina Pintar, Boris Kompare, Urska Bremec, Elizabeta Gabrijelèiè, Gregor Sluga, Matej Ursiè and Lidija Globevnik 17. Recovery of Headwater Catchments and Lakes Affected by the Acid Atmospheric Deposition J. Krecek and Z. Horicka Section D - Monitoring and Mitigation of Disasters 18. Disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: A Case Study of Tsatichhu Lake in Bhutan Mandira S. Shrestha and Karma Chhophel 19. Perception and Communication of Flood Risk: Preliminary Results from the FLOWS Project Irina Krasovskaia, Anja Skiple Ibrekk, Lars Gottschalk and Hallvard Berg 20. Decreasing the Risk of Floods in Small and Medium Sized Catchments through Natural Storage in Headwater and Riparian Zones Roelof J. Stuurman, Perry G.B. de Louw and Marc F.P. Bierkens 21. Estimating Sediment Mobilisation from Torrent and Gully Deposits: Field Studies Martin J. Haigh 22. Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Erosion and Sedimentation in Sudan Seifeldin H. Abdalla Index