Ecosystem Services of Headwater Catchments

Part I: Headwater Environment and Natural Resources.- 1. Headwater Catchments: Foundation Pillars for Ecosystem Services.- 2. Technical and Ecological Methods to Control the Water Cycle in Mountain Watersheds.- 3. Ecosystem Services Supporting Water Supply Systems.- 4. Ecosystem Services in Headwaters of the Boreal Environment.- 5. Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources in a Snow-dominated Watershed of Northern Japan.- 6. Ecohydrological-based Forest Management in Semi-arid Climate.- 7. Ecosystem Services in African Headwaters.- Part II: Enhancing Environmental Services in Headwaters.- 8. Protective Stands: Lessons from the Past and Today's Challenges.- 9. Headwaters Management Constraints within the Kinneret Ecosystem Services.- 10. Mitigation of Natural Hazards in Mountain Watersheds of Japan.- 11. Environmental Management in the Headwater Catchments of Kiliki River, Nagaland, North East India.- 12. Agro-environmental Sustainability of the Yuanyang Rice Terraces in Yunnan Province, China.- 13. Environmental Security and Headwater Control in Brazil.- Part III: Environmental Services in the Changing World.- 14. Maintaining Environmental Services in Mountain Watersheds.- 15. Prioritizing Adaptation Needs for Ecosystem Services: A Regional Case Study in the Eastern Alps.- 16. Environmental Services in Mountain Catchments Affected by the Acid Atmospheric Deposition.- 17. Impacts of Reclaimed Opencast Coal-Land on Headwater Ecosystem Services.- 18. The Effect of Land Degradation on Ecosystem Services.- 19. Extreme Climate Events and Erosion Control in Headwater Catchments of Serbia.- Part IV: New Challenges for Environmental Education and Active Citizenship.- 20. Ecosystem Services, European Union Policies, and Stakeholders' Participation.- 21. Water Conservation Business Arising from Company's Environmental Responsibility.- 22. Natural Protective Services in Mountain Catchments: Provision, Transaction and Consumption.- 23. Citizens Participation in Ecosystem

Josef Krecek, Ph.D. is the founder and managing co-director of the UNESCO-recognized 'International Association for Headwater Control', and former President of 'EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds' . He is Associate Professor of Czech Technical Univerity in Prague, teaching courses on Applied Hydrology and Climatology. Josef's current work includes research on hydrological processes related to impacts of the climate change and acid atmospheric deposition, as well as the participatory waterhsed management. He is experienced with several international projects in Europe and Asia, and coordinated a number of publications on watershed management and headwater restoration.
Martin Haigh, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Formerly, he was (Vice-)President of the 'World Association for Soil and Water Conservation'. He is a Co-Founder of the UNESCO-recognised 'International Association for Headwater Control' and co-organiser of most of its international conferences. He is a UK National Teaching Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2010, he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's 'Taylor and Francis Award for Excellence in Geography Teaching (Higher Education)'. Martin's current work includes environmental education as well as technical research in landslide prediction and landscape reconstruction in mining and mountainous areas.
Thomas Hofer is Forestry Officer and leader of the Watershed Management and Mountains Team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Since 2006, he serves as the secretary of the 'EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds'. He has vast field project experience in Asia and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. He has coordinated the development of a number of flagship publications on watershed management, sustainable mountain development and forest hydrology.
Eero Kubin,