Environmental Role of Wetlands in Headwaters (eBook)

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Autor: Josef (Hrsg.) Krecek

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ISBN: 978-1-4020-4228-7

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Preface.- Headwater Wetlands.- Mapping Wetlands in European Headwater Areas;.- The Role of Forest on the Hydrology of Headwater Wetlands.- Role of Grassland Ecosystems in Protection of Forested Wetlands.- The Effect of Peat Land Drainage and Afforestation of Runoff Dynamics: Consequences on Floods in the Glomma River.- Impact of Herbaceous Vegetation on Recovery of a Harvested Headwater Catchment.- Leaching of Nitrogen from Upland Forest-Regeneration Sites into Wetland Areas.- Hydrology of Disturbed Peat-Land, Heads of the Valleys, Wales.-Estimation of Water Budget in the Forested Peatlands of Western Ireland.- Role of the Planktonic Communities in the Regulation and Indication of Eutrofication Processes in Shallow Mountain Wetlands.- New Wetland Formation in Subsidence Hollows of Western Donbass, Ukraine.- Integrating Wetlands into Watershed Management: Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands to Reduce Impacts from Urban Stormwater.- Disasters and Climate Change - Their Relation to Wetland Headwaters.- The Alleghe Lake (Dolomites, Italy): Environmental Role and Sediment Management.- Alpine Wetlands from Ecological Network to Land Based Risk Prevention: The Case of Pian Di Spagna, Italy.- Headwater Resources and Headwater Hazards - The Perspective of Environmental Education. Case Study Galtür, Austria.- Hydrology of Wetlands in the Headwaters of Great African Rivers.- Headwater Wetlands in Eastern and Southern Africa. The Evolving Debate.- Economic Contribution of Headwater Wetlands. Experience from western Ethiopia.- The Lake Kinneret Drainage Basin: Headwater Discharges, Hydrology and Nutrient Dynamics in the Hula Valley Wetland.- Environmental Change in Headwater Peat Wetlands, UK.- Environmental Problems of Headwater Wetlands in Hungary.- Headwater Wetlands in the Czech Republic.- Analysis of the Water Balance of Small Páramo Catchments in South Ecuador.- Summary Reports: Wetlands in Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Belarus and Canada.- Headwater and Wetland Protection: The Italian Legal Framework.- Next Generation of Watershed Management Programmes: Objectives and Expected Results.- Conclusion - Wetlands in Context.- List of Contributors.- Participants.- Index.-

Autor	Krecek, Josef (Hrsg.) / Haigh, Martin (Hrsg.)
Verlag	Springer Netherlands
Einband	PDF
Erscheinungsjahr	2006
Seitenangabe	347 S.
Ausgabekennzeichen	Englisch
Abbildungen	IX, 347 p.
Masse	8'850 KB
Auflage	06001 A. 2006

Über den Autor Josef (Hrsg.) Krecek

Josef Krecek, Ph.D. is the founder and managing co-director of the UNESCO-recognized 'International Association for Headwater Control', and former President of 'EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds' . He is Associate Professor of Czech Technical Univerity in Prague, teaching courses on Applied Hydrology and Climatology. Josef's current work includes research on hydrological processes related to impacts of the climate change and acid atmospheric deposition, as well as the participatory waterhsed management. He is experienced with several international projects in Europe and Asia, and coordinated a number of publications on watershed management and headwater restoration. Martin Haigh, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Formerly, he was (Vice-)President of the 'World Association for Soil and Water Conservation'. He is a Co-Founder of the UNESCO-recognised 'International Association for Headwater Control' and co-organiser of most of its international conferences. He is a UK National Teaching Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2010, he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's 'Taylor and Francis Award for Excellence in Geography Teaching (Higher Education)'. Martin's current work includes environmental education as well as technical research in landslide prediction and landscape reconstruction in mining and mountainous areas.Thomas Hofer is Forestry Officer and leader of the Watershed Management and Mountains Team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Since 2006, he serves as the secretary of the 'EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds'. He has vast field project experience in Asia and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. He has coordinated the development of a number of flagship publications on watershed management, sustainable mountain development and forest hydrology.Eero Kubin, Ph.D. is former president of 'EFC/FAO Working Party on theManagement of Mountain Watersheds', and Management Committee Member of EU COST Action 725. Over 15 years he served as director of the Muhos Research Unit of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, and he is leader of long term research projects on phenology, and environmental aspects of forestry practices. As docent of the Oulu University and Helsinki University he is lecturer on forest ecology and superviser of several doctoral thesis. Catrin Promper is employee at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management working on natural hazard risk management. She holds a PhD in Geography from university of Vienna and gained international work experience in the Watershed Management and Mountains Team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). v>