Headwaters are fragile environments threatened by anthropogenic actions. The
regeneration of headwaters calls for a practical approach through integrated
environmental management. This book discusses various issues concerning
headwater regions of the world under wide-ranging themes: climate change
impacts, vegetal cover, sub-surface hydrology, catchment and streamflow
hydrology, pollution, water quality and limnology, remote sensing and GIS,
environmental impact assessment and mitigation, socio-economic impacts, public
participation, education and management, and integrated watershed management.
This book aims to bring about an awareness in sustainable regeneration of
headwater regions and particularly highlighting the problems of environmental
management in highlands and headwaters. These regions consist of great reserves
of natural resources which need to be exploited and managed sustainably. TOC:
Preface.- About the Editors.- Section A - Sustainable Watershed Management.- 1.
Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources.- 2. Social Science Contributions
to Multiple Objective Decision Making within Watersheds.- 3. Managing Headwater
Regions in Australia: Assessing Socioeconomic and Resource Sustainability.- 4.
Building Co-operations, Coalitions and Governance on Mountain Catchments
Sustainability.- 5. Developing Sustainability Priorities with a Participatory
Process: Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa.- 6. Management of Headwaters in
Acidified Areas along the West Coast of Norway.- Section B - Catchment and
Streamflow Hydrology.- 7. Monitoring for Modelling Reality and Sound
Economics.- 8. The Nile Headwaters: Wetlands and Catchments in Highland
Ethiopia.- 9. Changing Flow in the Okavango Basin: Upstream Developments and
Downstream Effects.- 10. Bedrock Groundwater as a Major Control on Streamflow
Generation in Upland Wales, UK.- 11. CRENODAT (Biodiversity Assessment and
Integrity Evaluation of Springs of Trentino (Italian Alps) and Long-term
Ecological Research): Project Design and Preliminary Results.- Section C -
Quality, Pollution and Management of Water Resources.- 12. Water as a Symbol of
National Identity in Norway.- 13. Assessing Renewable Water Resources and Water
Use in Angola.- 14. Water Management Issues in Middle Mountain Catchments of
the Nepal Himalayas: The Downstream Perspective.- 15. Inventorisation of
Environmental Risk Associated with Hazardous Waste Generated in Small Scale
Industrial Area of Delhi, India.- 16. The Impact of Land Use on Nutrient
Concentration in Upper Streams of Waters in Slovenia.- 17. Recovery of
Headwater Catchments and Lakes Affected by the Acid Atmospheric Deposition.-
Section D - Monitoring and Mitigation of Disasters.- 18. Disasters in the Hindu
Kush Himalayan Region: A Case Study of Tsatichhu Lake in Bhutan.- 19.
Perception and Communication of Flood Risk: Preliminary Results from the FLOWS
Project.- 20. Decreasing the Risk of Floods in Small and Medium Sized
Catchments through Natural Storage in Headwater and Riparian Zones.- 21.
Estimating Sediment Mobilisation from Torrent and Gully Deposits: Field
Studies.- 22. Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Erosion and
Sedimentation in Sudan.- Index
