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Watershed Management

• Prof. Baoyuan Liu
• School of Geography
• Beijing Normal University
• Beijing, P. R. China
• 2005.2

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• Credit2
• Class length36 hours
• Location Room 201, Chemical Building
• Instructor Baoyuan Liu
• Office Room 336, Bio-Geo Building
• Tel[phone]
• Emailbaoyuan_at_bnu.edu.cn

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Class objectives
(1)   To present a rational framework for the
development of watershed management
strategies. (2)   To provide an introduction to
the technical elements and tools of watershed
management.
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Class objectives
(3)   To understand and develop watershed
management programs. (4)   To improve
specialized English. (5) To familiarize foreign
text book.
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Test

• Notes 20
• Homework 20
• Final test 60

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Required Text Books

• Course package
• Brooks, K. N., P.F. Ffollitt, H.M. Gregersen,
  J.L. Thames. 1996. Hydrology and the Management
  of watersheds. Iowa State University Press/Ames.

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References

• Heathcote, I.W. 1998. Integrated Watershed
  Management Principles and Practice. John Wiley
  and Sons, Inc.
• Rees, J.A., 1990. Natural Resources Allocation,
  Economics and Policy. Second Edition.

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References
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Journals
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Resources Bulletin Journal of soil and Water
Conservation
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Contents

• Class 1
• Arrangement of course
• Objectives of the course
• References
• Definition of Terms

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Contents

• Class 2
• Chapter 1   Introduction
• 1.1 What is the watershed management
• 1.2 Why we need the watershed management
• Class 3
• 1.2 Why we need the watershed management
• Class 4
• 1.3 How we can do for the watershed
  management

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Contents

• Class 5
• Chapter 2  The watershed management
  inventory
• 2.1 Climate
• Class 6
• 2.2 Geology and landforms
• Class 7
• 2.3 Soil

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Contents

• Class 8
• 2.4 Hydrology
• Class 9
• 2.5 Land use and vegetation
• Class 10
• 2.6 Social and economic systems
• Class 11
• Chapter 3   Water erosion and its control
  practices

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Contents

• Class 12
• Chapter 3   Wind erosion and its control
  practices
• Class 13
• Chapter 4   Gully erosion, sand dunes, and
  soil mass movement
• Class 14
• Chapter 5 Sediment yield

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Contents

• Class 15
• Chapter 6 Water quality
• Class 16
• Chapter 7 Watershed management in the
  multiple use concept
• Class 17
• Chapter 8 Planning and appraising watershed
  management

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Contents

• Class 18
• Chapter 19 The economics of watershed
  practices and management

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How we will study this course?

• Part 1 introduction, read text book carefully,
  answer four questions
• Part 2 inventory, text book as a reference, learn
  how to use different knowledge comprehensively
• Part 3 sedimentation, learn the new knowledge and
  how to do the research
• Part 4 planning, knowledge expanding by read text
  book
• Part 5 economics, self study

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Definition of Terms

• Hydrology is the science of water that is
  concerned with the origin, circulation,
  distribution, and properties of waters of the
  earth.

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Definition of Terms

• Watershed is a topographically delineated area
  that is drained by a stream system, that is the
  total land area above some point on a stream or
  river water drains past that point.

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Definition of Terms

• Watershed an area of land within which all
  waters flow to a single river system.
• River basin is similarly defined as watershed
  but is of a larger scale. For example, the
  Mississippi River Basin and Amazon River Basin.

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Definition of Terms

• Watershed management is the process of guiding
  and organizing land and other resource use on a
  watershed to provide goods and services without
  affecting adversely soil and water resources.

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Definition of Terms

• Watershed management practices are those changes
  in land use, vegetative cover, and other
  nonstructural and structural actions that are
  taken on a watershed to achieve watershed
  management objectives.