Humid Tropics Hydrology

Author : M. Bonell,L. A. Bruijnzeel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Michael Bonell,Maynard M. Hufschmidt,John S. Gladwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521452687

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Hydrology and Water Management in the Humid Tropics by Michael Bonell,Maynard M. Hufschmidt,John S. Gladwell Pdf

Environmental problems in the humid tropical regions, where the focus is on the fate and management of the surviving rainforest and climate change, are attracting increasing attention internationally. The distribution of tropical rainfall is highly variable, and in many regions the supply of potable water is inadequate. By the end of the century one-third of the world's population will be living in the humid tropics. This book considers all aspects of hydrology in the humid tropics. The first four parts of the book cover the physical basis of hydrology in the humid tropics: climatology, meteorology, process hydrology, sedimentation, water quality and freshwater ecology. This is followed by extensive treatment of the human and societal issues: land-use changes, water resource management, and rural and urban water supply in the tropical regions. The book is a uniquely integrated summary of hydrology in the tropics.

Author : Michael Bonell,Leendert Adriaan Bruijnzeel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forest hydrology
ISBN : 1107138728

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Forests, Water, and People in the Humid Tropics by Michael Bonell,Leendert Adriaan 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 : J. Balek
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080870090

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Hydrology and Water Resources in Tropical Regions by J. Balek Pdf

A comprehensive, integrated view of the behaviour of the tropical hydrological cycle under various ecological, geographical and climatological conditions. The book also examines the problems of water management in relation to agriculture and civil engineering.

Author : Arnold Ivan Johnson,Carlos A. Fernández-Jáuregui
Publisher : IAHS Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : 1901502708

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Hydrology in the Humid Tropic Environment by Arnold Ivan Johnson,Carlos A. Fernández-Jáuregui Pdf

Author : Unesco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Groundwater
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008954328

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Hydrology of Warm Humid Regions by Unesco Pdf

Author : Jonathan N. Parkinson,Joel Avruch Goldenfum,Carlos Tucci
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780203881170

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Integrated Urban Water Management: Humid Tropics by Jonathan N. Parkinson,Joel Avruch Goldenfum,Carlos Tucci Pdf

Excess water in the urban environment results in flooding,which causes structural damage, risks to personal safety and disruption to city life. Water is also a major contributory factor for disease transmission as well as being the medium for transport of many pollutants. These problems are of increasing concern due to climate changes and are parti

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : 9231026720

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Water-related Issues and Problems of the Humid Tropics and Other Warm Humid Regions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lawrence S. Hamilton,James O. Juvik,F.N. Scatena
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461225003

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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests by Lawrence S. Hamilton,James O. Juvik,F.N. Scatena Pdf

Until relatively recently the valuable tropical montane cloud forests (hereaf ter usually referred to as TMCFs) of the world had scarcely come under the assaults experienced by the downslope montane and lowland forests. TMCFs are not hospitable environments for human occupation, and their remoteness (except in places near Andean high mountain settlements and in the Ethiopian Highlands) and difficult terrain have given them de facto protection. The ad jacent upper montane rain forests have indeed been under assault for timber, fuelwood, and for conversion to grazing and agriculture for many decades, even centuries in the Andes, but true cloud forest has only come under ex ploitation as these lower elevational resources have disappeared. They have also been "nibbled" at from above where there have been alpine grasslands under grazing pressure. Increasingly now, however, these cloud forest eco systems are being fragmented, reduced, and disturbed at an alarming rate. It is now becoming recognized that steps must be taken rapidly to increase our understanding of TMCF and to achieve their conservation, because: their water-capture function is extremely important to society; • their species endemism is high; they serve as refugia for endangered species being marginalized in these environments by increasingly transformed lower elevation ecosystems; they are relatively little studied; yet, their value to science is extremely high; they have low resilience to disturbance; vii viii Preface and many other reasons, which will be discussed subsequently in this publi cation.

Author : Ian Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : PSU:000019952208

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Humid Landforms by Ian Douglas Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521165520

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Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Reiner Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : MINN:31951000015306M

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Hydrology of Humid Tropical Regions by Reiner Keller Pdf

Author : Leung-Ku Stephen Lau,Ryland L. Moore,Patricia Y. Hirakawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UCR:31210025589803

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Humid Tropics Hydrology by Leung-Ku Stephen Lau,Ryland L. Moore,Patricia Y. Hirakawa Pdf

Author : World Meteorological Organization
Publisher : Secretariat to World Meteorological Organization
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UCSD:31822008744823

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Tropical Hydrology by World Meteorological Organization Pdf

Author : Bart Wickel
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783865371874

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Water and Nutrient Dynamics of a Humid Tropical Agricultural Watershed in Eastern Amazonia by Bart Wickel Pdf