Integrated Watershed Management: Perspectives and Problems

✍ Scribed by Einar Beheim, Govind S. Rajwar, Martin J. Haigh, Josef Kreček (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources....Pages 3-19
Social Science Contributions to Multiple Objective Decision Making within Watersheds....Pages 20-31
Managing Headwater Regions in Australia: Assessing Socio-economic and Resource Sustainability....Pages 32-46
Building Co-operations, Coalitions and Governance on Mountain Catchments Sustainability....Pages 47-54
Developing Sustainability Priorities with a Participatory Process: Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa....Pages 55-66
Management of Headwaters in Acidified Areas along the West Coast of Norway....Pages 67-75
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Monitoring for Modelling Reality and Sound Economics....Pages 79-88
The Nile Headwaters: Wetlands and Catchments in Highland Ethiopia....Pages 89-98
Changing Flow in the Okavango Basin: Upstream Developments and Downstream Effects....Pages 99-112
Bedrock Groundwater as a Major Control on Streamflow Generation in Upland Wales, UK....Pages 113-120
CRENODAT (Biodiversity Assessment and Integrity Evaluation of Springs of Trentino (Italian Alps) and Long-term Ecological Research): Project Design and Preliminary Results....Pages 121-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Water as a Symbol of National Identity in Norway....Pages 135-143
Assessing Renewable Water Resources and Water Use in Angola....Pages 144-159
Water Management Issues in Middle Mountain Catchments of the Nepal Himalayas: The Downstream Perspective....Pages 160-175
Inventorisation of Environmental Risk Associated with Hazardous Waste Generated in Small Scale Industrial Area of Delhi, India....Pages 176-189
The Impact of Land Use on Nutrient Concentration in Upper Streams of Waters in Slovenia....Pages 190-199
Recovery of Headwater Catchments and Lakes Affected by the Acid Atmospheric Deposition....Pages 200-207
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: A Case Study of Tsatichhu Lake in Bhutan....Pages 211-222
Perception and Communication of Flood Risk: Preliminary Results from the FLOWS Project....Pages 223-235
Decreasing the Risk of Floods in Small and Medium Sized Catchments through Natural Storage in Headwater and Riparian Zones....Pages 236-246
Front Matter....Pages 209-209
Estimating Sediment Mobilisation from Torrent and Gully Deposits: Field Studies....Pages 247-256
Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Erosion and Sedimentation in Sudan....Pages 257-269
Back Matter....Pages 271-273

✦ Subjects

Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Hydrogeology; Natural Hazards; Sustainable Development; Geography (general)