| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ecosystem management -- Congresses
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Watershed management -- Congresses
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| Genre/Form |
Kongress
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Kongress.
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Toronto (1997)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lal, R.
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Soil and Water Conservation Society (U.S.). International Affairs Committee.
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| ISBN |
1420074423 |
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9781420074420 |
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