TY - BOOK AU - Lal,R. ED - Soil and Water Conservation Society U.S.. TI - Integrated watershed management in the global ecosystem SN - 0849307023 (alk. paper) AV - TC409 .I585 2000 U1 - 333.7315 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Boca Raton, FL PB - CRC Press KW - Watershed management KW - Congresses KW - Local KW - Ecosystem management N1 - Based on the proceedings of the international conference held at Toronto, Canada in July 1997, sponsored by the International Affairs Committee of the Soil and Water Conservation Society; Includes bibliographical references and index; Rationale for watershed as a basis for sustainable management of soil and water resources / Rattan Lal -- Challenges in ecosystem management in watershed context in Asia / Jagir S. Samra and Hari Eswaran -- Operative processes for sediment-based watershed degradation in small, tropical volcanic island ecosystems / Samir A. El-Swaify -- Soil degradation in relation to land use and its countermeasures in the red and yellow soil region of southern China / T.L. Zhang ... [et al.] -- Watershed management for erosion control in sloping lands in Asia / Eric T. Craswell and Chalinee Niamskul --Watershed management for erosion control in steeplands of tropical Asia and Australia / Cyril A.A. Ciesiolka and Ghulam Mohd Hashim -- Watershed characteristics and management effects on dissolved load in water runoff : case studies from western Nigeria / Rattan Lal -- Sustaining a rice-wheat system in the Indo-Gangetic plains : the ecoregional context / Inder P. Abrol, Surinder M. Virmani, and Roy K. Gupta -- A landscape that unites : community-led management of Andean watershed resources / E. Bronson-Knapp ... [et al.] -- Agroecological impacts of 5 years of a practical program for restoration of a degraded Sahelian watershed / Andrew Manu ... [et al.] -- Natural resource management in a watershed scale : what can agroforestry contribute? / Dennis P. Garrity and Fahmuddin Agus -- Crop yield variability due to erosion on a complex landscape in west central Ohio / Edie Salchow and Rattan Lal -- A landscape/lifescape approach to sustainability in the tropics : the experiences of the SANREM CRSP at three sites / William L. Hargrove ... [et al.] -- Model-based evaluation of land use and management strategies in a nitrate-polluted drinking water catchment in North Germany / Kurt Christian Kersebaum -- Quantification of leached pollutants into the groundwater caused by agricultural land use--model-based scenario studies as a method for quantitative risk assessment of groundwater pollution / Angelika Wurbs, Kurt Christian Kersebaum, and Christoph Merz -- The economies of land restoration and conservation in an environmentally sound agriculture / Luther Tweeten and Jeff Hopkins -- Economic analysis of sedimentation impacts for watershed management / Fred Hitzhusen -- Land degradation and food security : economic impacts of watershed degradation / Pierre Crosson and Jock R. Anderson -- People, property, and profit in catchment management : examples from Kenya and elsewhere / Mary Tiffen and Francis Gichuki -- The participatory multipurpose watershed project : nature's salvation or Schumacher's nightmare / Robert E. Rhoades -- People's involvement in watershed management : lessons from working among resource-poor farmers / T. Francis Shaxon -- Watershed management for mitigating the greenhouse effect / John M. Kimble and Rattan Lal -- Managing watershed for food security and environmental quality : challenges for the 21st century / Rattan Lal ER -