Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics: Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land and Water Management - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0521829534 ISBN 13 : 9780521829533

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Review of the hardback: 'Bonell and Bruijnzeel completed a challenging and commendable achievement in organising these well-researched reviews on forests, water, and people of the humid tropics. The book will serve for many policy makers, managers, and scientists as a desk reference, and fit in alongside other classic publications of the Cambridge University Press International Hydrology Series. ... the book is a great resource, providing a collection of reviews on watershed management in tropical forests.' Hydrological Processes

Review of the hardback: '... a rich compendium of papers: 9 on hydrological process in undisturbed forests; 8 dealing with forest disturbance, conversion and recovery; and 8 describing methods for detecting and evaluating effects of land use change. Specialists in a wide range of fields ... will find contributions in their own field and in other fields with relevance to theirs.' European Tropical Forest Research Network News

Review of the hardback: '... it draws its contents from worldwide experiences and is organised by both broad and open-minded editors who are honestly putting together the best existing knowledge ...'. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Review of the hardback: 'Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics is a comprehensive review of topical knowledge on humid tropical forest hydrological functioning ... This is an impressive book. You get a real sense of the nature and breadth of the field, the importance of both empirical and conceptual approaches, the practical applications and the multidisciplinarity of managing those systems. ... there is a real 'take home message' to the book, which is the need of holistic approaches to tropical land and water management with a focus on local community involvement. ... excellent and very well-written ... there is something in Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics for everyone.' Progress in Physical Geography

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics is a comprehensive review 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. The book brings together leading specialists in such diverse fields as tropical anthropology and human geography, environmental economics, climatology and meteorology, hydrology, geomorphology, plant and aquatic ecology, forestry and conservation agronomy. The editors have supplemented the individual contributions with invaluable overviews of the main sections and provide key pointers for future research. Specialists will find authenticated detail in chapters written by experts on a whole range of people-water-land use issues, managers and practitioners will learn more about the implications of ongoing and planned forest conversion, while scientists and students will appreciate a unique review of the literature.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521829534
• ISBN 13: 9780521829533
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 944