Hydrology and the Management of Watersheds

摘要: Recent developments show us the urgency of knowing what we're doing when we direct or redirect flow water--and understanding how nature itself manages this precious resource. Hydrology and Management Watersheds is essential to such an understanding. A basic account hydrology watershed management, it provides fundamental information practical methods necessary for solving water-use problems in a wide variety settings situations--forest range, agricultural environmental. The authors present detailed discussion planning, implementation, evaluation with emphasis on social economic factors involved. They also include section devoted specific different regions United States elsewhere world. This new edition gives added attention cumulative effects human activities watersheds, place policy institutions guiding resource use, role riparian wetland systems natural management. key text students water sciences, environmental studies, book will prove invaluable administrators, technicians, planners, managers.