Research Catalog

Title

The sustainable management of tropical catchments / edited by David Harper and Tony Brown.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harper, David M.
• Brown, A. G. (Antony Gavin), 1958-

Description

xiv, 381 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

Provides syntheses of studies in three continents on the problem of achieving and understanding tropical rural development without compromising longer-term sustainability of the soil and water systems that underpin it. The studies were carried out in Central/South America, Africa and Asia during the 1990s, mostly through the support of the EU Science and Technology for Development Programme. The studies encompass examples of erosion measurement:; of erosion control and conservation techniques at soil and ecosystem levels; of the limits to uses of fragile tropical soils; of the effects of runoff combined with regulation on rivers and reservoirs; of the importance of indigenous people in the development processes and of the value and limitations of modelling at scales from soils to catchment. There is no single message from the book because there is no single solution to the problems of achieving sustainable tropical development. This book presents ideas, techniques and case studies, knowledge of which will help researchers in many scientific and social disciplines to understand the complexities better, and politicians and bureaucrats to understand the consequences of development decisions and learn from the failure of many earlier ones. [publisher].

Subject

• Watershed management > Tropics > Congresses
• Soil erosion > Tropics > Congresses
• Land use > Tropics > Congresses
• Watershed management > Mathematical models > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Results of a conference held at the University of Leicester.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

INTRODUCTION -- SOILS, EROSION AND LAND USE -- CATCHMENT CONSERVATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT -- MODELLING: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT.

ISBN

0471969141 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98026738^

OCLC

• 39307330
• SCSB-12009497

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library