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Table of Contents:

• part Introduction
• chapter 1 Rationale for Watershed as a Basis for Sustainable Management of Soil and Water Resources
• part Watershed Management for Soil Erosion Control
• chapter 2 Challenges in Ecosystem Management in Watershed Context in Asia
• chapter 3 Operative Processes for Sediment-Based Watershed Degradation in Small, Tropical Volcanic Island Ecosystems
• chapter 4 Soil Degradation in Relation to Land Use and Its Countermeasures in the Red and Yellow Soil Region of Southern China
• chapter 5 Watershed Management for Erosion Control in Sloping Lands in Asia
• chapter 6 Watershed Management for Erosion Control in Steeplands of Tropical Asia and Australia
• chapter 7 Watershed Characteristics and Management Effects on Dissolved Load in Water Runoff: Case Studies from Western Nigeria
• part Technological Options for Watershed Management
• chapter 8 Sustaining a Rice-Wheat System in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: The Ecoregional Context
• chapter 9 A Landscape that Unites: Community-Led Management of Andean Watershed Resources
• chapter 10 Agroecological Impacts of 5 Years of a Practical Program for Restoration of a Degraded Sahelian Watershed
• chapter 11 Natural Resource Management in a Watershed Scale: What Can Agroforestry Contribute?
• chapter 12 Crop Yield Variability Due to Erosion on a Complex Landscape in West Central Ohio
• chapter 13 A Landscape/Lifescape Approach to Sustainability in the Tropics: The Experiences of the SANREM CRSP at Three Sites
• chapter 14 Model-Based Evaluation of Land Use and Management Strategies in a Nitrate-Polluted Drinking Water Catchment in North Germany
• chapter 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
• part Socioeconomic Aspects of Watershed Management
• chapter 16 The Economics of Land Restoration and Conservation in an Environmentally Sound Agriculture

• chapter 17 Economic Analysis of Sedimentation Impacts for Watershed Management
• chapter 18 Land Degradation and Food Security: Economic Impacts of Watershed Degradation
• chapter 19 People, Property, and Profit in Catchment Management: Examples from Kenya and Elsewhere
• chapter 20 The Participatory Multipurpose Watershed Project: Nature's Salvation or Schumacher's Nightmare?
• chapter 21 People's Involvement in Watershed Management: Lessons from Working among Resource-Poor Farmers
• part Environment Quality and Watershed Management
• chapter 22 Watershed Management for Mitigating the Greenhouse Effect
• chapter 23 Managing Watershed for Food Security and Environmental Quality: Challenges for the 21st Century.

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Contributors:

Lal, R.

Soil and Water Conservation Society (U.S.) > International Affairs Committee

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Ecosystem management — Congresses

Watershed management — Congresses

Ecosystem management

Watershed management

Genres:

Conference papers and proceedings

General Notes:

Based on the proceedings of the international conference held at Toronto, Canada in July 1997, sponsored by the International Affairs Committee of the Soil and Water Conservation Society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TC409 .I584 2000eb

ISBNs:

9780429115110 (e-book, PDF)
9780849307027 (hardback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1201/9781420074420

OCLC Numbers:

181089155

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: tf9780429115110