Social and ecological system dynamics : characteristics, trends, and integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia / Krystyna Stave, Goraw Goshu, Shimelis Aynalem, editors.
2017
HC79.E5
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Title
Social and ecological system dynamics : characteristics, trends, and integration in the Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia / Krystyna Stave, Goraw Goshu, Shimelis Aynalem, editors.
ISBN
9783319457550 (electronic book)
3319457551 (electronic book)
9783319457536
3319457535
3319457551 (electronic book)
9783319457536
3319457535
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Language
English
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HC79.E5
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.70963
Summary
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. Lake Tana Basin outflows of water, sediments, nutrients, and contaminants affect water that flows downstream in the Blue Nile across international boundaries into the Nile River; the lake and surrounding land have recently been proposed as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve; the basin has been designated as a key national economic growth corridor in the Ethiopian Growth and Transformation Plan. In spite of the Lake Tana Basin's importance, there is no comprehensive, integrated, system-wide description of its characteristics and dynamics that can serve as a basis for its sustainable development. This book presents both the social and ecological characteristics of the region and an integrated, system-wide perspective of the feedback links that shape social and ecological change in the basin. Finally, it summarizes key research needs for sustainable development.
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AESS interdisciplinary environmental studies and sciences series.
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