The contributors to this book strive to anticipate emerging and future problems; to discover integrated solutions to the problems already caused by land degradation, natural hazards and development processes; and to help develop better land management, environmental protection and landscape regeneration practices and policies. They also address the many challenges that remain: the concern for effective sharing of local experience in science and technology; community participation; the role of education; effectiveness and limits of current technology; the selection of appropriate policies and goals; modes of effective management; and the sustainability of current activities.

Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources provides an understanding of current and prior situations and provides scientific analyses of local and regional headwater issues in India and Africa. The authors analyse the current situation through field experiments that provide reliable information on the status of headwater resources in these regions.

This book originates from the conference on Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources at the 5th International Conference on Headwaters in Nairobi, Kenya.

Editors
Libor Jansky is a Professor of Land Management and Conservation conferred by Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic, and a Senior Academic Programme Officer in the Environment and Sustainable Development Programme of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan. Martin J. Haigh is a Professor of Geography at Oxford Brookes University, England, a founding Director of the International Association for Headwater Control, Vice President for Europe of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation and Co-Editor of the Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Haushila Prasad is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya.

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