Preface ......................................................... v
About the Editors ............................................. vii
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 ....... 3
T. Hofer and P. Ceci
2 Hydrological Change Management from Headwaters to the
Ocean: HydroChange 2008, Kyoto ............................... 6
M. Katsuyama, M. Haigh, K. Yamamoto, T. Endo and
M. Taniguchi
3 Water Management Adaptation Strategies for Land Use Changes
and Increased Climate Variability in Mountain Communities
in Western Canada ........................................... 17
Ham Schreier
4 Environmental Education and Catchment Citizenship
in Mountain Regions ......................................... 31
Claude Poudrier
Part II
Stream-flow Processes in Mountain Catchments
5 Integrated Hydrological Model for Mountain Ecosystem
Assessment .................................................. 41
Yoshinobu Sato
6 Investigation and Modelling of Subarctic Wetland
Hydrology - A Case Study in the Deer River Watershed,
Canada ...................................................... 56
Bing Chen, Liang Jing and Baiyu Zhang
7 Flash Floods in Alpine Basins ............................... 83
Lorenzo Marchi and Marco Borga
8 Peak Discharge Prediction in Torrential Catchments of the
French Pyrenees: The ANETO Method ........................... 93
Christophe Peteuil, Simon Carladous and Nicolle Mathys
Part III
Water Chemistry and Biota in Mountain Streams and Lakes
9 Measurement of Stream Bed Stability Characteristics
Relevant to Lotic Ecosystems ............................... 113
Arved C. Schwendel
10 Stream Habitat Fragmentation Caused by Road Networks in
Spanish Low-order Forest Catchments ........................ 123
Jorge García Molinos
11 Mountain Watershed in Lesotho: Water Quality,
Anthropogenic Impacts and Challenges ....................... 139
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 ........................................ 153
T. Stanislaw Niemtur and Edward Pierzgalski
13 Hydrological Effects of a Large Scale Windfall
Degradation in the High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia .......... 164
Ladislav Holko, Peter Fleischer, Viliam Novák, Zdenik
Kostka, S. Bièárová and Ján Novák
14 Interception Storage in a Small Alpine Catchment ........... 180
Petr Puncochar, Josef Krecek and Adriaan van de Griend
15 Long-Term Effects of Silvicultural Practices on
Groundwater Quality in Boreal Forest Environment ........... 192
E. Kubin
16 Modelling 100 Years of С and N Fluxes at Fertilized
Swedish Mountainous Spruce Forests ......................... 200
Harald Grip and 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 .......................................... 209
Adam Kertész
18 Landslide Disasters: Seeking Causes - A Case Study from
Uttarakhand, India ......................................... 218
Martin Haigh and J.S. Rawat
19 Control of Landslides in Mountain Watersheds, Japan ........ 254
Hideaki Marui
Index ......................................................... 267
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