Environmental Reconstruction in Headwater Areas

These proceedings of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Environmental Reconstruction in Headwater Areas" provide a landmark in the evolution of a distinctive movement, perhaps an emerging new philosophy, within the practice of headwater management. The Headwater Control movement traces its history back to the First International Conference on Headwater Control, Prague, 1989. Throughout this brief history, Headwater Control has remained a typical environment movement 'ad hocracy'. At its meetings, for every convert to the multidisciplinary, integrative, practical, interventionist, and above-all 'green' ideals of the group, there have been several delegates who have found the whole concept both new and slightly incomprehensible. One reason for this has been the Headwater Control practice of trying to bring together scientists, practitioners, policy-makers and non-government environmentalist organisations. The group's larger meetings have always been federal gatherings. Sponsorship has been shared with invited participation from associations representing hydrological science, soil conservation, erosion control, forestry, environmental activism and so forth. These delegations may have included fellow travellers in the work to protect headwater environments, but their main concerns have not necessarily coincided with the Headwater Control group's prescriptions for the environmental regeneration of headwater regions. The Liberec Workshop, whose proceedings are distilled into this volume, provided a first opportunity for the scattered supporters of Headwater Control to talk among themselves and fmd out to what degree there really is a shared vision of the way forward in headwater management, restoration and protection.

Klappentext

This book provides a landmark in the evolution of a distinctive movement, perhaps even an emerging new philosophy within the practice of headwater management. The headwater control movement began in 1989 and has remained a typical environmental movement, in the sense of being ad hoc, multidisciplinary, integrative, practical, interventionist and, above all, `green'. In this book, the scattered supporters of headwater control reveal a shared vision of the way forward in headwater management, restoration and protection, presenting a clearer vision of the work that has to be done and a plan of campaign for the future.

Zusammenfassung
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmental Reconstruction in Headwater Areas in Liberec and Prague, Czech Republic, November 21-26, 1997

Inhalt

1. Overview.- Impact of Human Activities in the Headwater Environment.- Reviewing The Contexts of Headwater Control.- Headwater Control:Despatches from the research front.- Holistic Approaches to Headwater ManagementPerspectives from the Directorate of the EuropeanUnion.- Trees, Electricity and Folk Wisdom.- Identification and Classification of European Headwaters.- 2. Headwater Control: Theory, Practice and Experience.- Spatial Variability of The Hydrological Cycle and Some Indicators of Its State.- Application of Spatially Distributed Hydrological Models for Risk Assessment In Headwater Regions.- Watershed Monitoring And Modelling:Remote Sensing and Gis Applications in the Mediterranean Environment.- Desertification/Aridification Monitoring of the Iberian Peninsula by Passive Microwave Remote Sensing.- Erosion Area Assessment In Mountainous Basins Using Gis Methods.- Ravine and Gully Erosion in the Hilly Headwater Areas of Hungary.- Prevention, Degradation and Rehabilitation: A New Dilemma in Himalayan Watersheds.- Prevention of Nutrient Leaching from a Forest Regeneration Area Using Overland Flow Fields.- Forest Management in MountainsA case study in a protection forest in Savoy (France).- Earthwatch Institute:Scientific Field ResearchPublic Educationand Global Responsibility.- 3. Headwater Management: Some Regional Perspectives.- Headwater Control in North America.- Headwater Problems in Africa.- Headwater Control in Austria..- Strategies for Headwater Control in Norway.- Groundwater Protection in Belarus.- 4. Conclusions.- Reconstructing Headwater AreasSocial and institutional considerations.- Conclusions and RecommendationsFrom the Liberec Workshop.- List of Contributors.- Participants.