Protecting Watershed Areas: Case of the Panama Canal

by S Ashton; P Mark

• ISBN13: 9781560220640
• ISBN10: 1560220643
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-13
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

Protecting Watershed Areas: Case of the Panama Canal provides foresters, hydrologists, and park managers with a case study of the Panama Canal watershed area to help you make the most of your efforts in protecting ecological areas. Through this unique book, you will discover how the Carter-Torrijos treaty that will return the Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama on December 31, 1999 will affect the 2.6 million inhabitants of that area as well as this complex ecosystem. This valuable book includes a focus on both technical and biological observations in the field as well as library research to help you make the most of book learning and field research in your endeavors to protect forest reserves and other protected areas.

Author Biography

Mark S. Ashton, PhD, ME, is Associate Professor of Silviculture, and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in New Haven, Connecticut. Jennifer L. O'Hara, MFS, BA, is a doctoral candidate at Yale University in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut. Robert D. Hauff, MF, BA, is a research ecologist in Micronesia for the USDA Forest Service Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Mirei E. Endara
Preface	xiii
Mark S. Ashton
Jennifer L. O'Hara
Robert D. Hauff
Introduction: The Panama Canal Watershed Area	1	(10)
Jennifer L. O'Hara
Small Farmer Migration and the Agroforestry Alternative in the Panama Canal Watershed	11	(12)
Luisa Camara-Cabrales
Saccharum spontaneum (Gramineae) in Panama: The Physiology and Ecology of Invasion	23	(16)
Bruce W. Hammond
A Case Study Assessment of Agroforestry: The Panama Canal Watershed	39	(14)
Robert D. Hauff
The Potential for Carbon Sequestration Projects as a Mechanism for Conserving Forests in the Panama Canal Watershed	53	(14)
Nadine Block
Rehabilitation of Former US Military Lands Bordering the Panama Canal	67	(14)
Claire M. Corcoran
Sedimentation in the Panama Canal Watershed	81	(12)
Maya Loewenberg
Will the Goals Be Met? An Examination of ARI's General and Regional Plans with Respect to Protected Areas Within the Inter-Oceanic Region, Panama	93	(14)
Sarah N. Whitney
Balancing Conservation and Economics: The Development of an Ecotourism Plan for Panama	107	(20)
Katherine Lieberknecht
Jennifer Papazian
Andrea McQuay
Mutual Incomprehension or Selective Inattention? Creating Capacity for Public Participation in Natural Resource Management in Panama	127	(20)
Benjamin Gardner
Working Toward Effective Policy Processes in Panama Canal Watershed National Parks	147	(18)
Keely B. Maxwell
Christopher J. Williams
The Prospects for Integrated Watershed Management in the Panama Canal Watershed	165	(16)
H. Bradley Kahn
Field Trips in Natural Resources Professional Education: The Panama Case and Recommendations	181	(18)
Tim W. Clark
Mark S. Ashton
Panama Canal Watershed: A Synthesis	199	(4)
Mark S. Ashton
Jennifer L. O'Hara
Index	203