Overview
Broadens our understanding of ecosystem services in headwater catchments
Illustrates the downstream impacts of headwater ecosystem services
Demonstrates several examples with global applications
Provides the evaluation and mapping pollutants in headwater environments
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Headwater Environment and Natural Resources
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Enhancing Environmental Services in Headwaters
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Environmental Services in the Changing World
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About this book
The contributions have been updated and peer-reviewed, and the interdisciplinary team of authors includes experts from the fields of geography, hydrology, chemistry, biology, forestry, ecology and socio-economics. The participatory management of headwater catchments in Europe, Africa, America and Asia was the central theme of the articles, which were divided into four sessions: (1) Headwater Environment and Natural Resources, (2) Enhancing Environmental Services in Headwaters, (3) Environmental Services in the Changing World, and (4) New Challenges for Environmental Education and Active Citizenship. The practical applications shown in the book address the multi-resource concept.
The book offers a unique and valuable resource for environmentalists, engineers, watershed planners and policymakers alike.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 the
Management 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>
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Services of Headwater Catchments
Editors: Josef Křeček, Martin Haigh, Thomas Hofer, Eero Kubin, Catrin Promper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57946-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, India 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57945-0Published: 24 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57946-7Published: 12 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Additional Information: Jointly published with Capital Publishing Company, New Delhi, India
Topics: Environmental Science and Engineering, Natural Hazards, Hydrology/Water Resources, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Climate Change, Pollution, general