Ecohydrology-Based Landscape Restoration

Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31318-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 237 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability

This book provides an introduction to a fairly new approach to natural resources management practice entitled ecohydrology-based landscape restoration.

Ecohydrology-based landscape restoration integrates landscape restoration practices with ecohydrology science and principles in order to help address the limitations of current management practices in developing countries. Focusing on both the theory and practice of implementing new management practices, the book includes conceptual designs and practical demonstrations for a variety of sites, including hillsides, farmlands, gullies, riparian buffers and wetlands, while also drawing on field research conducted in Ethiopia. The book puts forward principles for improving current practices, which include the better integration of hydrological and ecological concerns, the greater involvement of local communities, the adoption of indigenous practices, the establishment of green and semi-grey infrastructure as an ecohydrological systemic solution and the necessity of taking an adaptive approach to managing landscapes.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water resource management, ecohydrology and landscape restoration as well as professionals involved in the restoration of landscapes in developing countries.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Belete, Mulugeta Dadi

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Philosophical foundations for Ecohydrology-based Landscape Restoration (EcoLaR) approach and limitations of the conventional practices 2. Guiding principles of Ecohydrology-based Landscape Restoration (EcoLaR) Approach 3. Conceptual design of green-(semi) grey infrastructure as Ecohydrological Systemic Solution for landscape restoration 4. Ecohydrologic strategy for functional restoration of landscape hillslopes 5. Ecohydrologic strategy for sustainable management of farmlands 6. Ecohydrologic strategy for restoration of gully networks in a landscape 7. Characterization of vegetated riparian buffer zones as the last line of defense for protecting water bodies from degradation: Meta-analysis 8. Framework for management strategies of natural wetlands 9. Synthesis and implication of the Ecohydrology-Based Landscape Restoration approach to the wider ecosystem management sector: the concluding chapter

Über Autor(innen)

Mulugeta Dadi Belete is Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at Hawassa University, Ethiopia.