Provides syntheses of studies in three continents on the problem of achieving and understanding tropical rural development without compromising longer-term sustainability of the soil and water systems that underpin it.

There is no single message from the book because there is no single solution to the problems of achieving sustainable tropical development.

Features studies that encompass examples of:

• erosion measurement
• erosion control and conservation techniques at soil and ecosystem levels
• limits to uses of fragile tropical soils
• effects of runoff combined with regulation on rivers and reservoirs
• importance of indigenous people in the development processes
• value and limitations of modelling at scales from soils to catchment

Contents

1. Sustainability in the Context of Tropical Catchment

1. SOILS, EROSION AND LAND USE
   2. From Plot to Basins: The Scale Problem in Studies of Soil Erosion and Sediment Yield
   3. Remote Sensing and GIS Studies of Erosion Potential for Catchment Management: A Densely Populated Agricultural Catchment in Kenya
   4. Socio-economic Aspects of Subsistence Farming and Soil Erosion in Tropical Catchment Management: The Upper Tana, Kenya
   5. Phosphorus Transport from a Tropical Catchment and Implications for Sustainable Catchment Management: The Upper Tana, Kenya
   6. Agroecological Practices as Tools for the Sustainable Management of Catchments Susceptible to Erosion: Réunion Island
   7. Importance of Geopedology in Sustainable Use of Tropical Catchments: Sodic Soils and Land Use Scenarios in Northern Amazonia
   8. Soil Restoration and Conservation: The "Tepetates"-Indurated Volcanic Soils-in Mexico
   9. Environmental Management for Sustainable Selective Logging in Tropical Rainforests
   10. Environmental Limits to Sustainable Coffee Cultivation on Tropical Soils: The Sungai, Pemadang Catchment, Brunei

2. CATCHMENT CONSERVATION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
   11. Conservation of Tropical Peat Swamp Forests: A Peatland Catchment in Central Kalimantan
   12. Catchment Sustainability and River Biodiversity in Asia: A Case Study from Nepal
   13. Conservation of Inland Deltas: A Case Study of the Gash Delta, Sudan
   14. Importance of People in the Management of Tropical Catchments
   15. Hydrological and Ecological Considerations in the Management of a Catchment Controlled by a Reservoir Cascade: The Tana River, Kenya
   16. Information for the Sustainable Management of Shallow Lakes: Lake Naivasha, Kenya

3. MODELLING: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
   17. Importance of Soil Infiltration Dynamics and Data Uncertainty: Field Studies on Soils in Zimbabwe
   18. Distributed Numerical Modelling of Surface Runoff and Soil Erosion in Arid Catchments
   19. Hydrological Modelling in Humid Tropical Catchments
   20. Modelling Lake Level Changes: Examples from the Easter Rift Valley, Kenya
   21. Influence of Tropical Catchments upon the Coastal Zone: Modelling the Links between Groundwater and Mangrove Losses in Kenya, India/Bangladesh and Florida
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