Download or read book Forests Water and People in the Humid Tropics written by M. Bonell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hydrology and Water Management in the Humid Tropics written by Michael Bonell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-09-02 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental problems in the humid tropical regions, where the focus is on the fate and management of the surviving rainforest and climate change, are attracting increasing attention internationally. The distribution of tropical rainfall is highly variable, and in many regions the supply of potable water is inadequate. By the end of the century one-third of the world's population will be living in the humid tropics. This book considers all aspects of hydrology in the humid tropics. The first four parts of the book cover the physical basis of hydrology in the humid tropics: climatology, meteorology, process hydrology, sedimentation, water quality and freshwater ecology. This is followed by extensive treatment of the human and societal issues: land-use changes, water resource management, and rural and urban water supply in the tropical regions. The book is a uniquely integrated summary of hydrology in the tropics.
Download or read book Hydrology and Water Resources in Tropical Regions written by J. Balek and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1983-07-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, integrated view of the behaviour of the tropical hydrological cycle under various ecological, geographical and climatological conditions. The book also examines the problems of water management in relation to agriculture and civil engineering.
Download or read book Hydrology in the Humid Tropic Environment written by Arnold Ivan Johnson and published by IAHS Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Forests Water and People in the Humid Tropics written by Michael Bonell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 925 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Hydrology of Warm Humid Regions written by Unesco and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hydrology of the Hawaiian Islands written by L. Stephen Lau and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is groundwater the predominant drinking water source in Hawaii? Why are groundwater sources susceptible to pesticide contamination? How long does it take for water in the mountains to journey by land and underground passages to reach the coast? Answers to questions such as these are essential to understanding the principles of hydrology—the science of the movement, distribution, and quality of water—in Hawaii. Due to the humid tropical climate, surrounding ocean, volcanic earth, and high mountains, many hydrologic processes in the Islands are profoundly different from those of large continents and other climatic zones. Management of water, land, and environment must be informed by appropriate analyses, or communities and ecosystems face great uncertainty and may be at risk. The protection of groundwater, coastal waters, and streams from pollution and the management of flood hazards are also significant. This volume presents applications of hydrology to these critical issues. The authors begin by outlining fundamental hydrologic theories and the current general knowledge then expand into a formal discussion specific to Hawaii and the distinctive elements and their interrelations under natural and human-influenced conditions. They include chapters on rainfall and climate, evaporation, groundwater, and surface runoff. Details on the quantification of hydrologic processes are available to those with more technical knowledge, but general readers with an interest in the topic—one of singular importance for the Hawaiian Islands—will find much in the volume that is timely and accessible.
Download or read book A Programme for the Humid Tropics written by International Hydrological Programme and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hydrology and Water Resources in Tropical Africa written by J. Balek and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hydrology and Water Resources in Tropical Africa
Download or read book Hydrology of the Hawaiian Islands written by Leung-Ku Stephen Lau and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors begin by outlining fundamental hydrologic theories and the current general knowledge then expand into a formal discussion specific to Hawai'i and the distinctive elements and their interrelations under natural and human-influenced conditions. They include chapters on rainfall and climate, evaporation, groundwater, and surface run-off. Details on the quantification of hydrologic processes are available to those with more technical knowledge, but interested general readers will find much in this volume that is timely and accessible.
Download or read book Water Climate and Land Use in a Non stationary Tectonically active Humid Tropical Environment written by Taylor Joyal and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tropics, ongoing departure from the long-term climate average is more rapid and significant than anywhere on the planet, predicted to reach unprecedented conditions as early as 2020. Moreover, low latitudes harbor the majority of developing nations with limited capital available for monitoring water resources and climate change. As climate change intensifies, the interaction between altered precipitation regimes and modified vegetation and soil associated with expanding agricultural and pastoral land use can reduce the intrinsic resilience of watersheds and the ecosystems and societies they support. In this dissertation I provide insight into how climate change and land use affect watershed hydrology and channel morphology in the data-poor humid mountain tropics. I identified an unique expression of geomorphic equilibrium in mountain river channels relative to conventional metrics of geomorphic balance derived from temperate and semi-arid regions. Using physically based modeling of surface and subsurface hydrology paired with field-based channel measurements, I evaluated the response exhibited by watersheds in tectonically active steep mountain terrain under existing and altered climate and land cover scenarios. Watersheds converted from forest to pasture exhibit greater peak flow events, lower base flow and reduced resilience to increased rainfall intensity. My efforts provide a rapid and inexpensive procedure for deciphering the effects of land use and climate change without need for long-term datasets or a spatially comprehensive description of subsurface heterogeneity, allowing local resource management efforts to broaden to the watershed scale.
Download or read book Urban Climates written by T. R. Oke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Climates is the first full synthesis of modern scientific and applied research on urban climates. The book begins with an outline of what constitutes an urban ecosystem. It develops a comprehensive terminology for the subject using scale and surface classification as key constructs. It explains the physical principles governing the creation of distinct urban climates, such as airflow around buildings, the heat island, precipitation modification and air pollution, and it then illustrates how this knowledge can be applied to moderate the undesirable consequences of urban development and help create more sustainable and resilient cities. With urban climate science now a fully-fledged field, this timely book fulfills the need to bring together the disparate parts of climate research on cities into a coherent framework. It is an ideal resource for students and researchers in fields such as climatology, urban hydrology, air quality, environmental engineering and urban design.
Download or read book Climate Water and Agriculture in the Tropics written by Ian Joseph Jackson and published by Longman Scientific and Technical. This book was released on 1989 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough revision of the 1977 study. Jackson (geography, U. of New England, Australia) covers the implications of tropical climate and rainfall for agriculture and for hydroelectric power generation, water transport, streamflow control, reservoir construction, and health. Includes some 500 new references. Co-published in the US with Wiley. Acidic paper. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Humid Tropical Environments written by Alison Reading and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-10-30 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humid tropics contain some of the world's richest, most diverse, most important and most threatened environments. This book draws on recent work by geographers, biologists, ecologists, geologists and climatologists to present a complete and integrated appraisal of the natural environment of all the humid tropical regions of the world. The most complete textbook on this key subject. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. Informative case studies and examples. Considers the physical environment as a whole and stresses the link between the elements.
Download or read book Comparative Hydrology written by Malin Falkenmark (editor.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Estimation of Natural Groundwater Recharge written by I. Simmers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In view of the rapidly expanding urban, industrial and agri cultural water requirements in many areas and the normally associated critical unreliability of surface water supplies in arid and semi-arid zones, groundwater exploration and use is of fundamental importance for logical economic development. Two interrelated facets should be evident in all such groundwater projects : (a) definition of groundwater recharge mechanisms and characteristics for identified geological formations, in order to determine whether exploitation in the long-term involves 'mining' of an es sentially 'fossil' resource or withdrawal from a dynamic supply. A solution to this aspect is essential for development of a re source management policy: (b) determination of recharge variability in time and space to thus enable determination of total aquifer input and to quantify such practical aspects as 'minimum risk' waste disposal locations and artificial recharge potential via (e.g.) devegetation or engi neering works. However, current international developments relating to natural recharge indicate the following 'problems' ; no single comprehensive estimation technique can yet be iden tified from the spectrum of methods available; all are reported to give suspect results.
Download or read book Humid Landforms written by Ian Douglas and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1977 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landforms created by running water dominate the land surface of earth. However, although the role of water is seen everywhere, it is seen at its best in those regions where the climates are wet enough to support a forest vegetation with a continuous canopy. The seasonal fluctuations in the character of precipitation with snow in winter and rain in summer which characterize cool temperate forest climates and the legacies of recent past cold periods in high latitudes means that the landforms of the humid tropics should be regarded as the "normal" or "type" features due to erosion by running water.This discussion of humid landforms, together with J. A. Mabbutt's volume "Desert Landforms" completes a series of seven volumes on systematic geomorphology. It attempts to break with traditional approaches and to discuss humid landforms from the standpoint of the humid tropics. In addition, it seeks to demonstrate that the processes creating and destroying landforms are also those that regulate biotic activity at the earth's surface. The approach followed in this book is to describe the processes affecting the evolution of landforms in terms of the circulations of energy, water and materials before introducing the complication of legacies of different ages from the past. Theories of landform evolution are briefly reviewed in the final chapter.
