Social and Ecological System Dynamics Characteristics, Trends, and Integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia / edited by Krystyna Stave, Goraw Goshu, Shimelis Aynalem.

This book is a social—ecological system description and feedback analysis of the Lake Tana Basin, the headwater catchment of the Upper Blue Nile River. This basin is an important local, national, and international resource, and concern about its sustainable development is growing at many levels. Lak...

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Other Authors: Stave, Krystyna (Editor), Goshu, Goraw (Editor), Aynalem, Shimelis (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
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505 0 |a SECTION I: Overview -- 1. Introduction: Regional Challenges and Policy Questions -- 2. Problem Overview of the Lake Tana Basin -- 3. System Dynamics as a Framework for Understanding Human—Environment Dynamics -- 4. Bahir Dar and the Lake Tana Basin: Historical Phases of Growth and Ecology. SECTION II: Ecosystem Characteristics -- 5. Climate of Lake Tana Basin. 6. Temporal and spatial climate variability and trends over Abay (Blue Nile) river basin -- 7. Overview of the hydrogeology and groundwater occurrence in the Lake Tana basin, Upper Blue Nile river basin -- 8. Characterization, Classification and Mapping of Soils of Agricultural landscape in Tana basin, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia -- 9. Hydrology of Lake Tana Basin -- 10 -- Water quality of Lake Tana basin, Upper blue Nile, Ethiopia: A review of available data -- 11. Plankton of Lake Tana -- 12 -- The Fish and the Fisheries of Lake Tana -- 13. Birds of Lake Tana Sub-Basin -- 14. Herpetofauna and Mammals -- 15. Forest Resources in Amhara: Brief Description, Distribution and Status -- 16. Wetlands of the Lake Tana watershed -- 17. Exotic and Invasive plants: Water hyacinth -- SECTION III: Socioeconomic System Characteristics and Land Use -- 18.Demographic Characteristics of the Lake Tana Basin -- 19. Gender and Rural Livelihood in the Lake Tana Basin -- 20. Examining the characteristics of stakeholders in Lake Tana Sub-basin resource use, management and Governance -- 21. Lake Tana Subbasin's Economy and The Role of Natural Resources -- 22.Land Use Distribution and Change in Lake Tana Sub Basin -- 23. Agriculture in the Lake Tana Sub-Basin of Ethiopia -- 24. Challenges and opportunities for increasing farm animal productivity in the Lake Tana Basin -- 25. Urban Areas in the Lake Tana Region -- SECTION IV: Management -- 26. Environmental Protection in the Lake Tana Basin -- 27. Institutional Analysis of Environmental Resource Management in Lake Tana Sub- Basin -- 28. Land use and watershed management practices in Lake Tana basin -- 29. Establishment of the Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve within the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves -- 30. Water -Induced Shift of Farming Systems and Value Addition in Lake Tana Sub-Basin: The Case of Rice Production and Marketing in Fogera District, Northwestern Ethiopia -- 31. Trends and driving forces of eucalyptus plantation by smallholders in the Lake Tana Watershed of Ethiopia -- 32. Waste management in Lake Tana basin - Case of rapidly urbanizing Bahir Dar city -- SECTION V: Synthesis -- 33. Problems, Efforts and Future Directions of Natural Resources Management in Western Amhara Region of the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia: Review -- 34. Participatory System Dynamics Mapping for Collaboration and Socioecological Integration in the Lake Tana Region. 
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