Management of Mountain Watersheds

Part I. Institutional Aspects in Control of Mountain Regions

1. Mission and History of the European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds
T. Hofer, P. Ceci

2. Hydrological Change Management from Headwaters to the Ocean: HydroChange 2008, Kyoto
M. Katsuyama, M. Haigh, K. Yamamoto, T. Endo, M. Taniguchi

3. Water Management Adaptation Strategies for Land Use Changes and Increased Climate Variability in Mountain Communities in Western Canada
Hans Schreier

4. Environmental Education and Catchment Citizenship in Mountain Regions
Claude Poudrier

Part II. Stream-flow Processes in Mountain Catchments

5. Integrated Hydrological Model for Mountain Ecosystem Assessment
Yoshinobu Sato

6. Investigation and Modelling of Subarctic Wetland Hydrology ‒ A Case Study in the Deer River Watershed, Canada
Bing Chen, Liang Jing, Baiyu Zhang

7. Flash Floods in Alpine Basins
Lorenzo Marchi, Marco Borga

8. Peak Discharge Prediction in Torrential Catchments of the French Pyrenees: The ANETO Method
Christophe Peteuil, Simon Carladous, Nicolle Mathys

Part III. Water Chemistry and Biota in Mountain Streams and Lakes

9. Measurement of Stream Bed Stability Characteristics Relevant to Lotic Ecosystems
Arved C. Schwendel

10. Stream Habitat Fragmentation Caused by Road Networks in Spanish Low-order Forest Catchments
Jorge García Molinos

11. Mountain Watershed in Lesotho: Water Quality, Anthropogenic Impacts and Challenges
Olaleye Adesola Olutayo

Part IV. Effects of Forest Practices and Climate Change on Hydrological Phenomena

12. Forest Ecosystems Changes and Hydrological Processes in Western Carpathians
T. Stanislaw Niemtur, Edward Pierzgalski

13. Hydrological Effects of a Large Scale Windfall Degradation in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia
Ladislav Holko, Peter Fleischer, Viliam Novák, Zdeněk Kostka, S. Bičárová, Ján Novák

14. Interception Storage in a Small Alpine Catchment
Petr Puncochar, Josef Krecek, Adriaan Griend

15. Long-Term Effects of Silvicultural Practices on Groundwater Quality in Boreal Forest Environment
E. Kubin

16. Modelling 100 Years of C and N Fluxes at Fertilized Swedish Mountainous Spruce Forests
Harald Grip, Per-Erik Jansson

Part V. Soil Conservation and Control of Floods and Landslides

17. The Forests of Lake Balaton Catchment and Their Role in Soil Conservation
Ádám Kertész

18. Landslide Disasters: Seeking Causes – A Case Study from Uttarakhand, India
Martin Haigh, J. S. Rawat

19. Control of Landslides in Mountain Watersheds, Japan
Hideaki Marui

Keywords: Earth Sciences, Hydrogeology, Physical Geography, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution