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

by Edited by M. Bonell , L. A. Bruijnzeel

• ISBN13: 9780521829533
• ISBN10: 0521829534
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics 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. 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.

Table of Contents

Part I. Current Trends and Perspectives on People-Landuse-Water Issues

Part II. Hydrological Processes in Undisturbed Forest

Part III. Forest Disturbance, Conversion and Recovery

Part IV. New Methods for Evaluating Effects of Land-Use Change

Part V. Critical Appraisals of Best Management Practices.