1st Edition

Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem

Edited By Rattan Lal Copyright 2000
    416 Pages
    by CRC Press

    416 Pages
    by CRC Press

    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.

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


    Biography

    Lal, Rattan