Author: Lawrence S HamiltonPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Tropical Forested Watersheds
Author: Lawrence S HamiltonPublisher: Westview Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Tropical Forested Watersheds
Author: Lawrence S. HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN: 9788170890560
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Tropical forests are being altered or replaced at a rate that has aroused much concern among the global scientific community. Of particular importance is the effect on soil and water of activities involving alterations and conversions of Forests for cultivation, grazing, logging or other purposes. This book synthesis current knowledge about the effects of twelve different human activities on various water and soil phenomena, including groundwater, spring, and well levels; stream-flow quantity, timing and distribution; on-site erosion; sediment in stream; and nutrient outflow. Each chapter includes a short section suggesting appropriate management and policy guidelines to minimize adverse effects and enhance benefits.
Developing a Scientific Basis for Sustainable Management of Tropical Forest Watersheds
Author: Min Thant ZinPublisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
ISBN: 3938616164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Myanmar is a country situated in continental Southeast Asia and most parts of the country are highlands forming as watersheds of country's drainage systems. These highland watersheds are usually clad with tropical forests of different types providing productive and protective functions essential for sustainable development of the country. Accordingly, sustainable forest management has to be adopted as a standard approach for effective watershed conservation whereas timber production guided by sustained yield principles would be one of the overriding objectives. Four case studies provide some useful insight into resolution for some technical problems of the prevailing strategic challenges in sustainable forest management for effective conservation of forest watersheds of the country.
Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics
Author: M. BonellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139443845
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics is a comprehensive review of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, and optimum strategies for managing them. The book brings together leading specialists in such diverse fields as tropical anthropology and human geography, environmental economics, climatology and meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, plant and aquatic ecology, forestry and conservation agronomy. The editors have supplemented the individual contributions with invaluable overviews of the main sections and provide key pointers for future research. Specialists will find authenticated detail in chapters written by experts on a whole range of people-water-land use issues, managers and practitioners will learn more about the implications of ongoing and planned forest conversion, while scientists and students will appreciate a unique review of the literature.
Tropical Forested Watersheds: Hydrlogics and Soils Response to Major Uses Or Conversions
Author: S. Hamilton LawrencePolicy And Practice In The Management Of Tropical Watersheds
Author: H. C. PereiraPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000306135
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book describes the upper watershed technologies and quotes successful examples. It is concerned with the less researched and often less-tractable land-use problems of rural areas involving the management of croplands, plantations, forests, and rangelands.
The World's Tropical Forests
Author: U.S. Interagency Task Force on Tropical ForestsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deforestation
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Watersheds with People's Participation
Author: Shuban Krishan DharPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest management
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Hawaii Tropical Forest Recovery Action Plan
Author: Hawaii Tropical Forest Recovery Task ForcePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Author: Duncan Poore