Integrated Watershed Management: Perspectives and Problems [Paperback]

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.

Sustainable Watershed Management.- Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources.- Social Science Contributions to Multiple Objective Decision Making within Watersheds.- Managing Headwater Regions in Australia: Assessing Socio-economic and Resource Sustainability.- Building Co-operations, Coalitions and Governance on Mountain Catchments Sustainability.- Developing Sustainability Priorities with a Participatory Process: Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa.- Management of Headwaters in Acidified Areas along the West Coast of Norway.- Catchment and Streamflow Hydrology.- Monitoring for Modelling Reality and Sound Economics.- The Nile Headwaters: Wetlands and Catchments in Highland Ethiopia.- Changing Flow in the Okavango Basin: Upstream Developments and Downstream Effects.- Bedrock Groundwater as a Major Control on Streamflow Generation in Upland Wales, UK.- CRENODAT (Biodiversity Assessment and Integrity Evaluation of Springs of Trentino (Italian Alps) and Long-term Ecological Research): Project Design and Preliminary Results.- Quality, Pollutiol#'