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Illuminating opportunities to develop a more integrated approach to
municipal water system design, Natural and Engineered Solutions for
Drinking Water Supplies: Lessons from the Northeastern United
States and Directions for Global Watershed Management explores
critical factors in the decision-making processes for municipal
water system delivery. The book offers vital insights to help
inform management decisions on drinking water supply issues in
other global regions in our increasingly energy- and
carbon-constrained world. The study evaluates how six cities in the
northeastern United States have made environmental, economic, and
social decisions and adopted programs to protect and manage upland
forests to produce clean drinking water throughout their long
histories. New York, New York; Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts;
New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Portland, Maine have
each managed city watersheds under different state regulations,
planning and development incentives, biophysical constraints,
social histories, and ownerships. Some of the overarching questions
the book addresses relate to how managers should optimize the
investments in their drinking water systems. What is the balance
between the use of concrete/steel treatment plants (gray
infrastructure) and forested/grassland/wetland areas (green
infrastructure) to protect surface water quality? The case studies
compare how engineered and/or natural systems are employed to
protect water quality. The conclusions drawn establish that it
makes environmental, economic, and social sense to protect and
manage upland forests to produce water as a downstream service.
Such stewardship is far more preferable than developing land and
using engineering, technology, and artificial filtration as a
solution to maintaining clean drinking water. Lessons learned from
this insightful study provide effective recommendations for
managers and policymakers that reflect the scientific realities of
how forests and engineering can be best integrated into effective
watershed management programs and under what circumstances.
Protecting Watershed Areas: Case of the Panama Canal provides
foresters, hydrologists, and park managers with a case study of the
Panama Canal watershed area to help you make the most of your
efforts in protecting ecological areas. Through this unique book,
you will discover how the Carter-Torrijos treaty that will return
the Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama on December 31, 1999
will affect the 2.6 million inhabitants of that area as well as
this complex ecosystem. This valuable book includes a focus on both
technical and biological observations in the field as well as
library research to help you make the most of book learning and
field research in your endeavors to protect forest reserves and
other protected areas. Protecting Watershed Areas offers you
insight into the Panama Canal area through informal interviews, key
informants, field data, and research that focuses on both the
technical and biological aspects of environmental management, such
as agroforestry and reforestation, of environmental management and
on policy and institutional dimensions of management to provide you
with a unique perspective of the dynamics of this area. The Panama
canal watershed area is one of the world?s most complex managed
ecosystems and through this insightful volume, you will find new
ways to deal with the myriad of problems you may encounter in
ecosystem management, such as: realizing that single resource
management is no longer adequate and taking a more holistic
approach to management, such as taking into consideration whole
ecosystems or watersheds will enable you to fully protect the area
you are trying to serve discovering how the trend of privitization
and nongovernmental ownership of protected areas impacts the job of
managing our precious national resources understanding that for
effective and stable protected area management to occur, you must
have a clear understanding of the historical and social context
that has shaped the particular circumstances of each site
recognizing larger national and international factors in order to
control the often devastating effects of tourism on protected areas
creating clear directives and priorities before developing
conservation programs to make program implementation
easierInformative and insightful, Protecting Watershed Areas
examines the most current ideas in protected areas management
through a unique case study of the Panama Canal. This essential
book provides you with several answers to the challenges facing
Panama that you can apply to forest reserve and other protected
areas programs around the globe due to the paramount importance of
developing sustainable land-use systems. With Protecting Watershed
Areas, you will discover how to effectively balance securing goods
and services from a region, such as farming and tourism without
threatening the overall integrity of the ecological systems and
meeting human needs and values.
During the Green Revolution in many developing countries, agroforestry systems tended to reflect modern agricultural systems by their intensive use of fertilizers, pesticides, and site modifications to fit the desired crop. Since the 1980's, agroforestry has learned from traditional indigenous systems to work more closely with the fertility of marginal lands through the use of less intensive cultivation and fallow periods. True to its title, this volume provides a silvicultural framework for thinking about the design and practice of agroforestry systems. Unlike many general agroforestry books, The Silvicultural Basis for Agroforestry Systems emphasizes research and thoughts from a forestry perspective rather than an agricultural one. Many of the examples used in this reference are based on the ecological theory of forests that concern the competition for resources of plant-plant and plant-animal mixtures. This guide also uses the knowledge gained about the temporal and spatial dynamic and productivity of forests as the basis for silvicultural applications in agroforestry systems. The Silvicultural Basis for Agroforestry Systems contains three parts:
The aim of this book is to provide an accessible overview for
advanced students, resource professionals such as land managers,
and policy makers to acquaint themselves with the established
science, management practices and policies that facilitate
sequestration and allow for the storage of carbon in forests. The
book has value to the reader to better understand: a) carbon
science and management of forests and wood products; b) the
underlying social mechanisms of deforestation; and c) the policy
options in order to formulate a cohesive strategy for implementing
forest carbon projects and ultimately reducing emissions from
forest land use.
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to integrative
protected area management, drawing from perspectives in policy
science, environmental science, political ecology and silviculture
to address the historical, socio-political, economic and
biophysical origins of contemporary conflicts in resource use and
management. While this case study reflects the sets of conditions
specific to Aiako Harria, it nonetheless provides broadly
applicable lessons and methodological approaches in sustainable
multiple-use protected area management, particularly in Europe.
Illuminating opportunities to develop a more integrated approach to
municipal water system design, Natural and Engineered Solutions for
Drinking Water Supplies: Lessons from the Northeastern United
States and Directions for Global Watershed Management explores
critical factors in the decision-making processes for municipal
water system delivery. The book offers vital insights to help
inform management decisions on drinking water supply issues in
other global regions in our increasingly energy- and
carbon-constrained world. The study evaluates how six cities in the
northeastern United States have made environmental, economic, and
social decisions and adopted programs to protect and manage upland
forests to produce clean drinking water throughout their long
histories. New York, New York; Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts;
New Haven and Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Portland, Maine have
each managed city watersheds under different state regulations,
planning and development incentives, biophysical constraints,
social histories, and ownerships. Some of the overarching questions
the book addresses relate to how managers should optimize the
investments in their drinking water systems. What is the balance
between the use of concrete/steel treatment plants (gray
infrastructure) and forested/grassland/wetland areas (green
infrastructure) to protect surface water quality? The case studies
compare how engineered and/or natural systems are employed to
protect water quality. The conclusions drawn establish that it
makes environmental, economic, and social sense to protect and
manage upland forests to produce water as a downstream service.
Such stewardship is far more preferable than developing land and
using engineering, technology, and artificial filtration as a
solution to maintaining clean drinking water. Lessons learned from
this insightful study provide effective recommendations for
managers and policymakers that reflect the scientific realities of
how forests and engineering can be best integrated into effective
watershed management programs and under what circumstances.
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