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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Part I Current Trends and Perspectives on People/Land-use/Water Issues |
Part II Hydrological Processes in Undisturbed Forest |
Part III Forest Disturbance, Conversion and Recovery |
Part IV New Methods for Evaluating Effects of Land-Use Change |
Part V Critical Appraisals of Best Management Practices |