Title:	Land, water and development: Sustainable management of river basin systems
Authors:	Malcolm Newson
Keywords:	Livelihood
Issue Date:	1997
Publisher:	Routledge
Description:	‘It stands to reason’, said the farmer, ‘we’ve only had these quick, high floods since the foresters ploughed those hills up there.’ This man’s knowledge of, dependence on, and reaction to his local river made his reasoning easy. Yet to a government hydrologist, as was the author at the time of the conversation, proof of a link between preparing upland soils for successful afforestation and a change in the unit hydrograph for the basin would take a decade of expensive research. After its completion the logical outcome of the proven link, between land there and water here, i.e. modifying forestry practice, compensating the farmer or afforesting a less sensitive hillside, would not translate into public policy. There were simply no river- related land planning policies in many countries; the UK was no exception.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26642
ISBN:	0-203-44352-7
Appears in Collections:	Gender Studies

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