Watersheds Processes, Assessment and Management [Hardcover]

In Watersheds: Processes, Assessment, and Management, author Paul DeBarry covers aspects of watershed physical processes such as assessing, classifying, and evaluating a watershed; using GIS models for watershed assessment; and effectively planning for future use and demands. He covers precipitation, ecology, geology, soils, geomorphology, hydrogeology, hydrology, water quality, hydraulics, GIS, data collection, planning, and management. And he takes you beyond theory so you learn to apply planning, management, GIS, and hydrologic engineering principles in real-world watershed management.

This concise reference manual is ideal whether you're a scientist, biologist, geologist, engineer, planner, administrator, part of a citizens group, or a practitioner seeking to identify what is important in the watershed being studied.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii

1 INTRODUCTION: COMPREHENSIVE WATERSHED ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT 1

1.0 Introduction 1

1.1 Sustainability 3

1.2 Watershed Assessment and Management 4

1.3 Comprehensive Watershed Management Concepts 4

1.4 Political versus Natural Resource Management 10

1.5 Summary 13

PART A: WATERSHED PROCESSES 17

2 PHYSIOGRAPHY 19

2.0 Introduction 19

2.1 Physiography and Physiographic Provinces 19

2.2 Geology 19

2.3 Soils 30

2.4 Topography 45

2.5 Summary 47

3 CLIMATE, PRECIPITATION, HYDROLOGIC CYCLE 49

3.0 Introduction 49

3.1 Climate Classification 49

3.2 Precipitation 49&llSÁ