Integrated Watershed Management : Connecting People to Their Land and Water

, by H. Gregersen; P. Ffolliott; K. Brookes

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ISBN: 9781845932817 | 1845932811
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Copyright: 1/10/2008

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As human populations expand and demands upon natural resources increase, the need to manage the people's living environments becomes more important, but also more difficult. Land and water management is especially critical as the use of upstream watersheds can drastically affect large numbers of people living in downstream watersheds. An integrated approach that stresses both the importance of participatory planning and the institutional and technical constraints and opportunities is therefore necessary. The institutional and technical context for managing watersheds and river basins, including the involvement of both the public and private sectors, is also examined.

Preface and Overview	p. ix
Challenges and Opportunities	p. 1
Fundamental Questions Addressed	p. 3
Challenges Faced	p. 4
Water scarcity	p. 6
Loss of protective vegetative cover and accelerated loss of soil resources	p. 6
Soil loss and nutrient depletion in humid tropical regions	p. 7
Problems of sustaining people's livelihood	p. 7
Other challenges	p. 8
Meeting the Challenges: Some Examples	p. 8
Alleviating water scarcity in arid regions	p. 9
Providing necessary natural resources to people	p. 9
Reconciling timber production and other watershed values	p. 10
Sustaining agricultural production on marginal lands	p. 10
A success story	p. 11
Land Use, Watershed Management and Cumulative Effects	p. 13
Interactions of Land Uses	p. 13
Availability of high-quality water	p. 14
Agricultural cropping	p. 18
Livestock production	p. 19
Wood production and other forestry activities	p. 20
Agroforestry practices	p. 20
Urban development and roads	p. 21
Linkages Between Land Use, Soil and Water	p. 22
Achieving watershed management objectives	p. 22
Maintaining good watershed condition	p. 24
Sustaining and improving on-site productivity	p. 25
Increasing water yield: implications for water supply	p. 27
Improving water quality	p. 32
Mitigating effects of landslides, debris flows and flooding	p. 33
Groundwater implications	p. 34
Rehabilitation activities	p. 35
Watershed health: a dynamic equilibrium	p. 36
Upstream-downstream connections	p. 37
Cumulative Effects	p. 38
Institutional Context	p. 40
Water Governance	p. 41
Institutional Effectiveness	p. 43
Dealing with Conflicting Interests	p. 44
Customary Water Rights, Water Laws and Treaties	p. 45
Customary and statutory water rights	p. 46
Land tenure and water rights	p. 47
In-country water sharing agreements	p. 48
International treaties and transcountry boundary institutions	p. 49
Incentives and market-based institutions	p. 51
Policy inferences	p. 51
Other incentive considerations	p. 52
Privatization of water	p. 52
Water prices, subsidies and cost recovery	p. 53
Payment for environmental services	p. 54
Governmental Agencies, Land and Water User Groups and Other Organizational Mechanisms	p. 55
Government agencies, boards and commissions	p. 55
Water user groups and associations	p. 59
Planning and Policy Making	p. 64
Setting the Context for Planning	p. 64
Watershed-level Planning and Action	p. 67
Lessons from Past Experience: Lessons for the Future	p. 73
Planning Elements	p. 76
Parallel policy design	p. 78
Planning Tools	p. 78
Economics as a Planning and Management Tool	p. 81
Principles related to economics as a planning and management tool	p. 81
Principles related to values and valuation	p. 84
Principles related to externalities, transfer payments and payments for environmental services	p. 86
Steps in the economic assessment process	p. 87
Hydrologic Processes and Technical Aspects	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
Watershed Hydrology	p. 89
Hydrologic Cycle	p. 90
Water budget	p. 92
Application of the water budget	p. 94
Impacts of watershed characteristics on hydrologic processes	p. 96
Precipitation	p. 96
Interception	p. 97
Evapotranspiration	p. 99
Infiltration	p. 101
Flow processes	p. 102
Streamflow	p. 103
Stream Channels, Floods, Flood Plains and Land Use	p. 105
Annual Water Yield	p. 107
Water Quality	p. 107
Water quality management objectives	p. 107
Water quality concerns	p. 108
Importance of Monitoring	p. 109
Precipitation	p. 109
Streamflow	p. 110
Water quality	p. 110
Monitoring and Evaluation to Improve Performance	p. 111
Relationship of Monitoring to Evaluation	p. 112
Monitoring	p. 112
Evaluation	p. 113
Design of Monitoring Programmes	p. 114
Determining information needs	p. 115
The costs and benefits of monitoring information	p. 119
Collecting Information	p. 120
Information management	p. 121
Monitoring the Biophysical System	p. 121
Types of biophysical monitoring	p. 122
Role of computer simulation modelling	p. 124
Monitoring Socio-economic Impacts	p. 125
Design of M&E Systems	p. 126
Determining information needs	p. 127
Timing of evaluations	p. 128
Early warning signs	p. 129
Evaluation focus	p. 129
Research, Training, Information and Technology Transfer	p. 131
Contributions of Research to Watershed Management	p. 131
Roles of researchers and managers	p. 132
Meeting people's needs	p. 133
Training Activities	p. 134
Classroom training activities	p. 134
Training levels	p. 134
A modular approach	p. 135
Training formats	p. 136
Learning methods	p. 137
Planning training activities	p. 138
Evaluation of training effectiveness	p. 139
Distance learning	p. 140
Recent innovations	p. 140
Use of compact discs	p. 141
Internet Applications	p. 141
Email	p. 142
Bulletin boards	p. 142
Blogs	p. 142
World Wide Web	p. 143
Adaptive, Integrated Management of Watersheds: Concluding Thoughts	p. 145
Role of Adaptive Management	p. 145
Foundational Premise	p. 146
Components of the Process	p. 147
Framework of the Process	p. 148
Alternative Models	p. 149
Applying Adaptive Management	p. 150
Conclusions	p. 150
Annexes	p. 153
A Process to Identify, Assess, and Deal with Policy Issues	p. 153
Principles and Standards for Privatization	p. 156
Stakeholders Categories	p. 161
Time Value of Money, Discount Rates, Discounting and Compounding	p. 165
Selected Bibliography of Useful References Dealing with the Economics of Natural Resources and Integrated Water and Watershed Management	p. 167
A procedure for monitoring Water Quality to Insure Credibility and Consistency	p. 168
Database Management Systems and Database Models	p. 171
Computer Simulation Models	p. 174
Geographic Information Systems	p. 179
Establishing a Research Agenda	p. 183
Illustrative Modules and Sessions for Watershed Management Training Activities	p. 184
Planning Watershed Management Training Activities	p. 185
References	p. 188
Index	p. 197
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