UID:
almafu_9959238038402883
Format:
1 online resource (953 p.)
ISBN:
1-107-13872-8
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0-521-12394-1
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1-280-41550-9
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0-511-17153-6
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0-511-19728-4
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0-511-10972-5
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0-511-29863-3
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0-511-53566-X
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0-511-10941-5
Series Statement:
International hydrology series
Content:
This volume is the most comprehensive review available of the hydrological and physiological functioning of tropical rain forests, the environmental impacts of their disturbance and conversion to other land uses, and optimum strategies for managing them. It will be invaluable for specialists, managers and practitioners, scientists and advanced students.
Note:
Based on papers from a sympsium and workshop organized jointly by the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO and the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, held in Kula Lumpar, Maylasia, July 30-Aug. 4,2000.
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Symposium and Workshop; Introduction; Part I: Current trends and perspectives on people-land use-water issues; 1 Trends and patterns of tropical land use change; 2 The myth of efficiency through market economics: a biophysical analysis of tropical economies, especially with respect to energy, forests and water; 3 Impacts of land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon from a resource manager's perspective; 4 Forest people and changing tropical forestland use in tropical Asia
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5 People in tropical forests: problem or solution?6 Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the link between forests and water in Central America; 7 Land use, hydrology and economic valuation; 8 Water resources management policy responses to land cover change in South East Asian river basins; 9 Community-based hydrological and water quality assessments in Mindanao, Philippines; Part II: Hydrological processes in undisturbed forests; 10 An overview of the meteorology and climatology of the humid tropics; 11 Synoptic and mesoscale rain producing systems in the humid tropics
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12 Climatic variability in the tropics13 Controls on evaporation in lowland tropical rainforest; 14 Runoff generation in tropical forests; 15 Erosion and sediment yield in the humid tropics; 16 Rainforest mineral nutrition: the 'black box' and a glimpse inside it; 17 Hydrology of tropical wetland forests: recent research results from Sarawak peatswamps; 18 Tropical montane cloud forest: a unique hydrological case; Part III: Forest disturbance, conversion and recovery; 19 Natural disturbances and the hydrology of humid tropical forests
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20 Spatially significant effects of selective tropical forestry on water, nutrient and sediment flows: a modelling-supported review21 Effects of shifting cultivation and forest fire; 22 Soil and water impacts during forest conversion and stabilisation to new land use; 23 Large-scale hydrological impacts of tropical forest conversion; 24 Forest recovery in the humid tropics: changes in vegetation structure, nutrient pools and the hydrological cycle; 25 The hydrological and soil impacts of forestation in the tropics; 26 The potential of agroforestry for sustainable land and water management
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Part IV: New methods for evaluating effects of land-use change27 Remote sensing tools in tropical forest hydrology: new sensors; 28 Detecting change in river flow series; 29 How to choose an appropriate catchment model; 30 The disaggregation of monthly streamflow for ungauged sub-catchments of a gauged irrigated catchment in northern Thailand; 31 Parsimonious spatial representation of tropical soils within dynamic rainfall-runoff models; 32 Isotope tracers in catchment hydrology in the humid tropics; 33 Process-based erosion modelling: promises and progress
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34 Impacts of forest conversion on the ecology of streams in the humid tropics
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-12398-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-82953-4
Language:
English
