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Introduction.. Sustainability in the Context of Tropical Catchments.. Soils, Erosion and Land Use.. Introduction.. From Plot to Basins: The Scale Problem in Studies of Soil Erosionand Sediment Yield.. Remote Sensing and GIS Studies of Erosion Potential for CatchmentManagement: A Densely Populated Agricultural Catchment inKenya.. Socio-economic Aspects of Subsistence Farming and Soil Erosion in Tropical Catchment Management: The Upper Tana, Kenya.. Agroecological Practices as Tools for the Sustainable Management of Catchments Susceptible to Erosion: Reunion Island.. The Importance of Geopedology in Sustainable Use of Tropical Catchments: Sodic Soils and Land Use Scenarios in Northern Amazonia.. Soil Restoration and Conservation: The "Tepetates" - Indurated Volcanic Soils - in Mexico.. Environmental Management for Sustainable Selective Logging in Tropical Rainforests.. Environmental Limits to Sustainable Coffee Cultivation on Tropical Soils: The Sungai, Pemadang Catchment, Brunei.. Catchment Conservation As an Integral Part of Sustainable management.. Introduction.. Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests: A Peatland Catchmentin Central Kalimantan.. Catchment Sustainability and River Biodiversity in Asia: A Case Study from Nepal.. Conservation of Inland Deltas: A Case Study of the Gash Delta, Sudan.. The Importance of People in the Management of Tropical Catchments.. Hydrological and Ecological Considerations in the Management of a Catchment.. Controlled by a Reservoir Cascade: The Tana River, Kenya.. Information for the Sustainable Management of Shallow Lakes: Lake Naivasha, Kenya

Modelling: An Essential Tool For Sustainable Management.. Introduction.. The Importance of Soil Infiltration Dynamics and Data Uncertainty: Field Studies on Soils in Zimbabwe.. Distributed Numerical Modelling of Surface Runoff and Soil Erosionin Arid Catchments.. Hydrological Modelling in Humid Tropical Catchments.. Modelling Lake Level Changes: Examples from the Easter Rift Valley, Kenya.. The Influence of Tropical Catchments upon the Coastal Zone: Modelling the Links between Groundwater and Mangrove Losses in Keyna, India/Bangladesh and Florida

Provides syntheses of studies in three continents on the problem ofachieving and understanding tropical rural development withoutcompromising longer-term sustainability of the soil and watersystems that underpin it. The studies were carried out in Central/South America, Africa andAsia during the 1990s, mostly through the support of the EU Scienceand Technology for Development Programme. The studies encompassexamples of erosion measurement:; of erosion control andconservation techniques at soil and ecosystem levels; of the limitsto uses of fragile tropical soils; of the effects of runoffcombined with regulation on rivers and reservoirs; of theimportance of indigenous people in the development processes and ofthe value and limitations of modelling at scales from soils tocatchment. There is no single message from the book because thereis no single solution to the problems of achieving sustainabletropical development. This book presents ideas, techniques and case studies, knowledge ofwhich will help researchers in many scientific and socialdisciplines to understand the complexities better, and politiciansand bureaucrats to understand the consequences of developmentdecisions and learn from the failure of many earlier ones. Inglés