Forests, Water and People in the Humid Tropics
Past, Present and Future Hydrological Research for Integrated Land and Water Management

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Current Trends and Perspectives on People/Land-use/Water Issues:
1. Trends and patterns of tropical land use change
2. The myth of efficiency through market economics: a biophysical analysis of tropical economies, especially with respect to energy, forests and water
3. Impacts of land cover change in the Brazilian Amazon: a resource manager's perspective
4. Forest people and changing tropical forestland use in tropical Asia
5. People in tropical forests: problem or solution?
6. Useful myths and intractable truths: the politics of the link between forests and water in Central America
7. Land use, hydrological function and economic valuation
8. Water resources management policy responses to land cover change in Southeast Asian river basins
9. Community-based hydrological and water quality assessments: a case study from the Philippines
Part II. Hydrological Processes in Undisturbed Forest:
10. An overview of the meteorology and climatology of the humid tropics
11. Synoptic and mesoscale rain producing systems in the humid tropics
12. Climatic variability in the tropics
13. Controls on evaporation in lowland tropical rain forest
14. Runoff generation in tropical forests
15. Erosion and sediment yield in the humid tropics
16. Rain forest mineral nutrition: the 'black box' and a glimpse inside it
17. Hydrology of tropical wetland forests: recent research results from Sarawak peatswamps
18. Tropical montane cloud forest: a unique hydrological case
Part III. Forest Disturbance, Conversion and Recovery:
19. Natural disturbances and the hydrology of humid tropical forests
20. Spatially-significant effects of selective tropical forestry on water, nutrient and sediment flows: a modelling-supported review
21. Effects of shifting cultivation and forest fire
22. Soil and water impacts during forest conversion and stabilisation to new land use
23. Large-scale hydrological impacts of tropical forest conversion
24. Forest recovery in the humid tropics: changes in vegetation structure, nutrient pools and the hydrological cycle
25. The hydrological impacts of reforestation of grasslands and of degraded forest in the tropics
26. The potential of agroforestry for sustainable land and water management
Part IV. New Methods for Evaluating Effects of Land-Use Change:
27. Remote sensing tools in tropical forest hydrology: new sensors
28. Detecting change in river flow series
29. How to choose an appropriate catchment model
30. The disaggregation of monthly streamflow for ungauged sub-catchments of a gauged irrigated catchment in Northern Thailand
31. Parsimonious spatial representation of tropical soils within dynamic rainfall-runoff model
32. Isotope tracers in catchment hydrology in the humid tropics
33. Process-based erosion modelling: promises and progress
34. Impacts of forest conversion on the ecology of streams in the humid tropics
Part V. Critical Appraisals of Best Management Practices:
35. Controlling catchment impacts of timber harvesting
36. Minimising the hydrological impact of forest harvesting in Malaysia's rain forests
37. Red flags of warning in land clearing
38. From nature to nurture: soil and water management for rainfed steeplands in the humid tropics
Conclusion: Forests-Water-People – an emerging view.

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