Integrated watershed management in the global ecosystem. (©2000)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Rattan Lal.
• Other Names: Lal, R; Soil and Water Conservation Society (U.S.)., International Affairs Committee.
• Contents: Rationale for watershed as a basis for sustainable management of soil and water resources / Rattan Lal -- Challenges in ecosystem management in watershed context in Asia / Jagir S. Samra and Hari Eswaran -- Operative processes for sediment-based watershed degradation in small, tropical volcanic island ecosystems / Samir A. El-Swaify -- Soil degradation in relation to land use and its countermeasures in the red and yellow soil region of southern China / T.L. Zhang [and others] -- Watershed management for erosion control in sloping lands in Asia / Eric T. Craswell and Chalinee Niamskul --Watershed management for erosion control in steeplands of tropical Asia and Australia / Cyril A.A. Ciesiolka and Ghulam Mohd Hashim -- Watershed characteristics and management effects on dissolved load in water runoff : case studies from western Nigeria / Rattan Lal -- Sustaining a rice-wheat system in the Indo-Gangetic plains : the ecoregional context / Inder P. Abrol, Surinder M. Virmani, and Roy K. Gupta -- A landscape that unites : community-led management of Andean watershed resources / E. Bronson-Knapp [and others] -- Agroecological impacts of 5 years of a practical program for restoration of a degraded Sahelian watershed / Andrew Manu [and others] -- Natural resource management in a watershed scale : what can agroforestry contribute? / Dennis P. Garrity and Fahmuddin Agus -- Crop yield variability due to erosion on a complex landscape in west central Ohio / Edie Salchow and Rattan Lal -- A landscape/lifescape approach to sustainability in the tropics : the experiences of the SANREM CRSP at three sites / William L. Hargrove [and others] -- Model-based evaluation of land use and management strategies in a nitrate-polluted drinking water catchment in North Germany / Kurt Christian Kersebaum -- 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 / Angelika Wurbs, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, and Christoph Merz -- The economies of land restoration and conservation in an environmentally sound agriculture / Luther Tweeten and Jeff Hopkins -- Economic analysis of sedimentation impacts for watershed management / Fred Hitzhusen -- Land degradation and food security : economic impacts of watershed degradation / Pierre Crosson and Jock R. Anderson -- People, property, and profit in catchment management : examples from Kenya and elsewhere / Mary Tiffen and Francis Gichuki -- The participatory multipurpose watershed project : nature's salvation or Schumacher's nightmare / Robert E. Rhoades -- People's involvement in watershed management : lessons from working among resource-poor farmers / T. Francis Shaxon -- Watershed management for mitigating the greenhouse effect / John M. Kimble and Rattan Lal -- Managing watershed for food security and environmental quality : challenges for the 21st century / Rattan Lal.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Copyright Date: 2000
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 333.73/15; Watershed management -- Congresses; Ecosystem management -- Congresses; Ecosystem management; Watershed management; Management; Wasserscheide; Ökosystem; Bassins hydrographiques -- Gestion -- Congrès; Écosystèmes -- Gestion -- Congrès; Management; Wasserscheide; Ökosystem; Kongress -- Toronto -- 1997; Conference papers and proceedings; Kongress; Toronto (1997)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1420074423; 9781420074420
• Related ISBNs: 0849307023; 9780849307027
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.