Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem / Edition 1

by Rattan Lal

Overview

Focusing on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management, this interdisciplinary author team focuses on bettering land use practices and the condition of soil water resources.
Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem is a volume composed from an international symposium of the world's leading experts and practitioners in soil and water conservation exploring an "ecosystem-based" management approach to the problem.
Readers of this volume will quickly appreciate why inattention to the issues of continued land and water degradation stresses human populations. This volume seeks positive results through better understanding of the issues and improved management approaches.
This volume is useful to soil scientists, horticulturists, forestry researchers, environmental scientists and social scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367399498
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/19/2019
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lal, Rattan

Table of Contents

Watershed Management for Soil Erosion Control
Technological Options for Watershed Management
Socio-Economic Aspects of Watershed Management
Environmental Quality and Watershed Management

Editorial Reviews

An interdisciplinary team of soil and water conservation experts contribute chapters that focus on the technical, social, and economic issues involved in watershed management. In sections focusing on watershed management for soil erosion control, technological options, socio-economic issues, and environmental factors of watershed management, the authors analyze the global concerns over the decline of water quality and increased pollution. They also offer strategies that could lead to sustainable use of natural resources and the slowing of land and water degradation. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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