Author: Hugh Hammond BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Conservation farming practices and flood control
Author: Hugh Hammond BennettConservation Farming Practices and Flood Control
Author: Hugh Hammond BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The conservation farming practices discussed here are a few of those found by experience and investigation to be effective in erosion control and which promise, accordingly, substantial aid to upstream flood control and soil protection.
Water & Heritage
Author: Willem WillemsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789088903861
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Water is vital for life, and its availability has been a concern for mankind throughout the ages. Its presence has always been ascertained in a variety of ways and the development of human society everywhere is connected with various forms of water management. Man also needed to manage water to find protection from its dangers and the need for that is increasing. In the coming decades, the impact of climate change is expected to intensify floods and droughts, affect groundwater resources, raise sea levels, increase pollution and enhance the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Societies around the world are challenged to adapt to these threats to ensure water security, economic prosperity and environmental and cultural sustainability. This book deals with the heritage of water management and the use that was made of water, as well as the impact of water management on heritage. An example of the former may be an ancient irrigation system in the Filipines or in the Middle East that still functions today, while the latter may reflect the importance of maintaining groundwater levels for the preservation of organic remains on archaeological sites or of wooden piles underneath standing buildings. In either case the papers in this book reflect the dynamic nature of water, and hence the equally dynamic relation between water management and heritage. This publication follows up on a Heritage and Water conference in Amsterdam, the first of its kind. Its main purpose is to credibly present the importance and value of heritage and historical experience for water and sustainable development, and vice versa, present the importance of water management for the protection of heritage. It presents evolving insights and concepts about Water and about Heritage from a variety of disciplines, policy and public perspectives illustrated with cases studies and aims to connect decision makers with experts such as engineers, archaeologists, historians, geographers, ecologist and landscape architects
Best Practice for Conservation Planning in Rural Areas
Author: Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831702865
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This report draws on lessons learned from observations made at seven case study sites, all of which permit economic activities, especially recreation, that are not harmful to the biological values and natural functions of the area. There is now a need to translate these experiences into policy instruments. The guidelines, summarized in some 20 pages, offer sound and well-documented advice on how to proceed.
Checklist, Free and Low-cost Books and Pamphlets for Use in Adult Education, Exhibited at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the American Association for Adult Education
Author: American Association for Adult Education. 15th annual meeting, New York CityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pamphlets
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Environment as Hazard
Author: Ian BurtonPublisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 9780898621594
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people around the world deal with dramatic fluctuations in the local natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing recent theoretical and methodological changes in the investigation of natural hazards, the authors describe how research findings are being incorporated into public policy, particularly research on slow cumulative events, technological hazards, the role played by social systems, and the relation of hazards theory to risk analysis. Through vivid examples from a broad sample of countries, this volume illuminates the range of experiences associated with natural hazards. The authors show how modes of coping change with levels of economic development by contrasting hazards in developing countries with those in high income countries - comparing the results of hurricanes in Bangladesh and the United States, and earthquakes in Nicaragua and California. In new introductory and concluding chapters that supplement the original text, the authors present new global data sets, as well as a trenchant discussion of implications of hazards research for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and for attempts by the world community to come to grips with the threats of climate change.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1446
Book Description
Soil Erosion and Sedimentation Control
Author: Principles and Practices of Rice Production
Author: Surajit K. De DattaPublisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 0471097608
Category : Rice
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description