Description
Book SynopsisProvides syntheses of studies in three continents on the problem ofachieving and understanding tropical rural development withoutcompromising longer-term sustainability of the soil and watersystems that underpin it.
The studies were carried out in Central/South America, Africa andAsia during the 1990s, mostly through the support of the EU Scienceand Technology for Development Programme. The studies encompassexamples of erosion measurement:; of erosion control andconservation techniques at soil and ecosystem levels; of the limitsto uses of fragile tropical soils; of the effects of runoffcombined with regulation on rivers and reservoirs; of theimportance of indigenous people in the development processes and ofthe value and limitations of modelling at scales from soils tocatchment. There is no single message from the book because thereis no single solution to the problems of achieving sustainabletropical development.
This book presents ideas, techniques and case studies,
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
Sustainability in the Context of Tropical Catchments
SOILS, EROSION AND LAND USE
Introduction
From Plot to Basins: The Scale Problem in Studies of Soil Erosionand Sediment Yield
Remote Sensing and GIS Studies of Erosion Potential for CatchmentManagement: A Densely Populated Agricultural Catchment inKenya
Socio-economic Aspects of Subsistence Farming and Soil Erosion inTropical Catchment Management: The Upper Tana, Kenya
Agroecological Practices as Tools for the Sustainable Management ofCatchments Susceptible to Erosion: Reunion Island
The Importance of Geopedology in Sustainable Use of TropicalCatchments: Sodic Soils and Land Use Scenarios in NorthernAmazonia
Soil Restoration and Conservation: The "Tepetates" -
Indurated Volcanic Soils - in Mexico
Environmental Management for Sustainable Selective Logging inTropical Rainforests
Environmental Limits to Sustainable Coffee Cultivation on TropicalSoils: The Sungai, Pemadang Catchment, Brunei
CATCHMENT CONSERVATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF SUSTAINABLEMANAGEMENT
Introduction
Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests: A Peatland Catchmentin Central Kalimantan
Catchment Sustainability and River Biodiversity in Asia: A CaseStudy from Nepal
Conservation of Inland Deltas: A Case Study of the Gash Delta,Sudan
The Importance of People in the Management of TropicalCatchments
Hydrological and Ecological Considerations in the Management of aCatchment Controlled by a Reservoir Cascade: The Tana River,Kenya
Information for the Sustainable Management of Shallow Lakes: LakeNaivasha, Kenya
MODELLING: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
Introduction
The Importance of Soil Infiltration Dynamics and Data Uncertainty:Field Studies on Soils in Zimbabwe
Distributed Numerical Modelling of Surface Runoff and Soil Erosionin Arid Catchments
Hydrological Modelling in Humid Tropical Catchments
Modelling Lake Level Changes: Examples from the Easter Rift Valley,Kenya
The Influence of Tropical Catchments upon the Coastal Zone:Modelling the Links between Groundwater and Mangrove Losses inKeyna, India/Bangladesh and Florida
