Forests Water Guidelines

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : 085538512X

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Forests & Water by Anonim Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Union of Forest Research Organizations,U.S. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251348512

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A guide to forest–water management by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,International Union of Forest Research Organizations,U.S. Department of Agriculture Pdf

Many people worldwide lack adequate access to clean water to meet basic needs, and many important economic activities, such as energy production and agriculture, also require water. Climate change is likely to aggravate water stress. As temperatures rise, ecosystems and the human, plant, and animal communities that depend on them will need more water to maintain their health and to thrive. Forests and trees are integral to the global water cycle and therefore vital for water security – they regulate water quantity, quality, and timing and provide protective functions against (for example) soil and coastal erosion, flooding, and avalanches. Forested watersheds provide 75 percent of our freshwater, delivering water to over half the world’s population. The purpose of A Guide to Forest–Water Management is to improve the global information base on the protective functions of forests for soil and water. It reviews emerging techniques and methodologies, provides guidance and recommendations on how to manage forests for their water ecosystem services, and offers insights into the business and economic cases for managing forests for water ecosystem services. Intact native forests and well-managed planted forests can be a relatively cheap approach to water management while generating multiple co-benefits. Water security is a significant global challenge, but this paper argues that water-centered forests can provide nature-based solutions to ensuring global water resilience.

Author : Kirsi-Marja Korhonen,Risto Laamanen,Sirkka Savonmäki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Forest management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02018553O

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Environmental Guidelines to Practical Forest Management by Kirsi-Marja Korhonen,Risto Laamanen,Sirkka Savonmäki Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Forestry Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Acid rain
ISBN : MINN:31951D00913302R

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Forests & Water Guidelines by Great Britain. Forestry Commission Pdf

This work advises owners and managers how woodlands and forests influence the freshwater ecosystem, and gives guidance on how operations should be carried out in order to protect and enhance the water environment. The guidelines apply equally to forest enterprises and the private sector.

Author : Jim Perry,Elizabeth Leigh Vanderklein
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444313659

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Water Quality by Jim Perry,Elizabeth Leigh Vanderklein Pdf

Once a purely technical sub-discipline of hydrology, water quality management is now a social and political discipline, with concerns ranging from ensuring adequate health standards to preserving biological diversity and ecosystem integrity. This book goes beyond the technical manuals and specialty publications to provide support and guidance for the everyday decisions made by water-quality managers. Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource addresses the rarely touched upon social, biophysical, land-use and policy considerations, which reflect the issues that confront managers and decision-makers. In a series of incisive reviews, experts address key topics in modern water resource management and case studies illustrate the successes and failures of past management efforts. Water Quality: Management of a Natural Resource develops and presents a management view requiring an awareness of: the social context of management, new ecological theories, and how policy is implemented in different situations and countries.

Author : Lee H. MacDonald,Alan W. Smart,R. C. Wissmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Forest hydrology
ISBN : UCR:31210018969343

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Monitoring Guidelines to Evaluate Effects of Forestry Activities on Streams in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska by Lee H. MacDonald,Alan W. Smart,R. C. Wissmar Pdf

Author : Futoshi Nakamura
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Bioclimatology
ISBN : 9789811667916

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Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation by Futoshi Nakamura Pdf

This open access book introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries where lands are geologically fragile and climatologically susceptible to climate change. It proposes green infrastructure as an adaptation strategy for climate change and biodiversity conservation. In the face of climate change, dams, levees and floodways built as disaster prevention facilities do not sufficiently function against extraordinary events such as mega-floods and tsunami disasters. To prevent those disasters and loss of biodiversity in various ecosystems, we should shift from conventional hard measures to more adaptive strategies using various functions that natural and semi-natural ecosystems provide. Green infrastructure is an interconnected network of waterways, wetlands, woodlands, wildlife habitats and other natural areas that support native species, maintain natural ecological processes, sustain air and water resources and contribute to the health and quality of life for communities and people. Green infrastructure has mainly been discussed from adaptation strategy perspectives in cities and urban areas. However, to protect cities, which are generally situated at downstream lower elevations, we explore the preservation and restoration of forests at headwater basins and wetlands along rivers from a catchment perspective. In addition, the quantitative examination of flood risk, biodiversity, and social-economic benefits described in this book brings new perspectives to the discussion. The aim of this book is to accelerate the transformative changes from gray-based adaptation strategies to green- or hybrid-based strategies to adapt to climate change. The book provides essential information on the structure, function, and maintenance of green infrastructure for scientists, university students, government officers, and practitioners.

Author : Leon Bren
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031128400

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Forest Hydrology and Catchment Management by Leon Bren Pdf

This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment. The unique Australian ecosystem provides valuable information on the water yields and hydro-ecology of forests. Insights can be transferred to other climate zones and conditions. In this second edition, the author puts a particular focus on the most prominent challenges of our time, in relation to water management. Ground salinity, climate change, and droughts have all been newly added to this updated edition. One of the most important concepts is highlighting the accumulated contribution of smaller catchments and minor streams. Finally, readers will also get information on the economic dimension of water management. With its incisive, disciplined, and quantitative (and occasionally humorous) approach, this book helps scientists, students, and regulators to understand water-driven conflicts and offers guidance on management.

Author : M. Bonell,L. A. Bruijnzeel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139443844

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Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics by M. Bonell,L. A. Bruijnzeel Pdf

Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics is a comprehensive review 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.

Author : Pia Katila,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Wil de Jong,Glenn Galloway,Pablo Pacheco,Georg Winkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108486996

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Sustainable Development Goals by Pia Katila,Carol J. Pierce Colfer,Wil de Jong,Glenn Galloway,Pablo Pacheco,Georg Winkel Pdf

A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.

Author : Economic Commission for Europe
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789210473538

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Forests and Water by Economic Commission for Europe Pdf

The objectives of this study are to further improve our understanding about the ways in which payments for ecosystem services schemes can be applied to forests, in particular focusing on forest’s hydrological functions for the mutual benefit of both humans and the environment. The study covers advances and challenges facing these schemes and provides practical guidance for policymakers and practitioners. It contains the most comprehensive database of case studies on forest-water related payment for ecosystem services schemes in the UNECE region.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Hydrologic Impacts of Forest Management
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309134378

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Hydrologic Effects of a Changing Forest Landscape by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Water Science and Technology Board,Committee on Hydrologic Impacts of Forest Management Pdf

Of all the outputs of forests, water may be the most important. Streamflow from forests provides two-thirds of the nation's clean water supply. Removing forest cover accelerates the rate that precipitation becomes streamflow; therefore, in some areas, cutting trees causes a temporary increase in the volume of water flowing downstream. This effect has spurred political pressure to cut trees to increase water supply, especially in western states where population is rising. However, cutting trees for water gains is not sustainable: increases in flow rate and volume are typically short-lived, and the practice can ultimately degrade water quality and increase vulnerability to flooding. Forest hydrology, the study of how water flows through forests, can help illuminate the connections between forests and water, but it must advance if it is to deal with today's complexities, including climate change, wildfires, and changing patterns of development and ownership. This book identifies actions that scientists, forest and water managers, and citizens can take to help sustain water resources from forests.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : 0855388374

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Forests and Water by Anonim Pdf

The Guidelines publications define sustainable forest management in the UK under a series of subject areas. The UK Forestry Standard requirements have been set out in each and guidance given on how to achieve them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Forest hydrology
ISBN : MINN:31951D03101536E

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Compendium of Forest Hydrology and Geomorphology in British Columbia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : MINN:31951D01270803P

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Forestry Environment Guide by Anonim Pdf