Integrated Watershed Management in the Global Ecosystem (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780849307027)

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.

Author: Rattan Lal
ISBN-10: 0849307023
ISBN-13: 9780849307027
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 08/23/1999
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.39w x 1.09d