Integrated Watershed Management : Perspectives and Problems

Contents: Preface. I. Sustainable Watershed Management. 1. Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources/Martin J. Haigh. 2.  Social Science Contributions to Multiple Objective Decisions Making within Watersheds/Ted L. Napier. 3. Managing Headwater Regions in Australia: Assessing Socio-economic and Resource Sustainability/John Cary. 4. Building Co-operations, Coalitions and Governance on Mountain Catchments Sustainability/Pier Carlo Zingari. 5. Developing Sustainability Priorities with a Participatory Process: Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa/Leif Lillehammer, Terje Kleven, Tore Hagen, Mark Bain and David Lewis. 6. Management of Headwaters in Acidified Areas along the West Coast of Norway/Atle Hindar, Yvan Orsolini and Brit Lisa Skjelkvale. II. Catchment and Streamflow Hydrology. 7. Monitoring for Modelling Reality and Sound Economics/Ian Cordery and Peter S. Cloke. 8. The Nile Headwaters: Wetlands and Catchments in Highland Ethiopia/Adrian Wood, Ato Afework Hailu and Alan Dixon. 9. Changing Flow in the Okavango Basin: Upstream Developments and Downstream Effects/J. Wilk, L. Andersson, P. Wolski, D. Kgathi, S. Ringrose and C. Vanderpost. 10. Bedrock Groundwater as a Major Control on Streamflow Generation in Upland Wales, UK/Atul H. Haria and Paul Shand. 11. CRENODAT (Biodiversity Assessment and Integrity Evaluation of springs of Trentino (Italian Alps) and Long-term ecological Research) : Project Design and Preliminary Results/Macro Cantonati, Ermanno Bertuzzi and Alesssia Scalfi. III. Quality, Pollution and Management of Water Resources. 12. Water as a Symbol of National Identity in Norway/Helena Nynas. 13. Assessing Renewable Water Resources and Water Use in Angola/David A. Wright, Kjetil Sandsbraten and Olav Osvoll. 14. Water Management Issues in Middle Mountain Catchments of the Nepal Himalayas: The Downstream Perspective/Juerg Merz, Pradeep M. Dangol, Madhav P. Dhakal, Bhawani S. Dongol, Gopal Nakarmi, Pravakar B. Shah and Rolf Weingartner. 15. Inventorisation of Environmental Risk Associated with Hazardous Waste Generated in Small Scale Industrial Are of Delhi, India/Preeti Saxena and Asim K. Bhattacharya. 16. The Impact of Land Use on Nutrient Concentration in Upper Streams of Waters in Solvenia/Marina Pintar, Boris Kompare, Urska Bremec, Elizabeta Gabrijelcic, Gregor Sluga, Matej Ursic and Lidija Globevnik. 17. Recovery of Headwater Catchments and Lakes Affected by the Acid Atmospheric Deposition/J.Krecek and Z. Horicka. IV. Monitoring and Mitigation of Disasters. 18. Disasters in the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region: A Case study of Tsatichhu Lake in Bhutan/Mandira S. Shrestha and Karma Chhophel. 19. Perception and Communication of Flood Risk: Preliminary Results from the FLOWS Project/Irina Krasovskaia, Anja Skiple Ibrekk. Lars Gottschalk and Hallvard Berg. 20. Decreasing the Risk of Floods in small and Medium Sized Catchments through Natural Storage in Headwater and Riparian zones/Roelof J. Stuurman, Perry G.B. de Louw and Marc F.P. Bierkens. 21. Estimating Sediment Mobilisation from Torrent and Gully Deposits: Field Studies/Martin J. Haigh. 22. Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Erosion and Sedimentation in Sudan/Seifeldin H. Abdalla. Index.

“This book contains 22 articles selected from over 200 oral and poster papers presented at the International Conference on Headwater Control held at Bergen, Norway, sixth of its kind (ICHC6) belonging to a tradition established at the First International Conference in Prague in 1989 and developed through subsequent meetings at various places in Europe, Asia and Africa. The articles of this book are updated and peer reviewed for inclusion in this volume as proceedings of the IHC6 conference. The issues of water use and water management in different parts of Europe, Africa and Asia have been the central theme of most of the articles, which are divided into four sections: Sustainable watershed management; Catchment and streamflow hydrology; Quality, pollution and management of water resources; and Monitoring and mitigation of disasters. The chapters incorporate the results of studies on integrated and sustainable watershed management, processes in headwater management, control of water pollution, and monitoring and mitigation of various disasters in different mountain watersheds of Asia, Africa and Europe.”