TY - BOOK AU - Geheb,Kim AU - Bossio,Deborah ED - C.A.B. International, ED - International Water Management Institute. ED - Challenge Program on Water and Food. TI - Conserving land, protecting water T2 - Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series AV - S494.5.W3 C66 2008eb U1 - 631.4/5 23 PY - 2008/// CY - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK PB - CABI, in association with CGIAR Challenge Program on Water & Food, International Water Management Institute KW - Land degradation KW - Water-supply, Agricultural KW - Water conservation KW - Water Resources KW - Land Resources KW - Pollution and Degradation KW - Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000) KW - Environmental degradation KW - cabt KW - Environmental management KW - Land management KW - Land resources KW - Land use KW - Socioeconomics KW - Water management KW - Water resources KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Learning from bright spots to enhance food security and to combat degradation of water and land resources / Frits Penning de Vries, Herbert Acquay, David Molden, Sarah Scherr, Christian Valentin and Olufunke Cofie -- Land degradation and water productivity in agricultural landscapes / Deborah Bossio, Andrew Noble, David Molden and Vinay Nangia -- Land degradation, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder Farmers in Makanya Catchment, Tanzania / Line J. Gordon and Elin I. Enfors -- The political ecologies of bright spots / Kim Geheb and Everisto Mapedza -- Large-scale fluxes of crop nutrients in food cause environmental problems at sources and at sinks / Frits Penning de Vries -- Carbon sequestration, land degradation and water / Antonio Trabucco, Deborah Bossio and Oliver van Straaten -- Local innovation in 'green water' management / William Critchley, Girish Negi and Marit Brommer -- Sustainability and resilience of the urban agricultural phenomenon in Africa / Pay Drechsel, Olufunke Cofie and Seydou Niang -- Safeguarding water resources by making the land greener : knowledge management through WOCAT / Hanspeter Liniger and William Critchley -- Bright basins : do many bright spots make a basin shine? / Francis Gichuki and David Molden -- The influence of plant cover structures on water fluxes in agricultural Landscapes / Lech Ryszkowski and Andrzej Kȩdziora -- Investments in collective capacity and social capital / Jules Pretty -- Bright spots : pathways to ensuring food security and environmental integrity / Andrew Noble, Deborah Bossio, Jules Pretty and Frits Penning de Vries -- Ecosystem benefits of 'bright' spots / Deborah Bossio, Andrew Noble, Noel Aloysius, Jules Pretty and Frits Penning de Vries; Access limited to subscribing institution; Also available in print format N2 - This volume follows from a project of the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture that brought together experts in fields ranging across the social sciences, ecology, agricultural sciences, soil and water science, political science and development studies to examine examples of success in reversing land degradation, understand their importance, and explore the essential relationships and linkages between land use and water management within them. This book aims to improve our understanding of these linkages, and examines the relationships between land, water and social systems, emphasizing that it is only such an integrated view that will yield a better understanding of how positive outcomes can be generated. There are 14 chapters divided into three sections. The first section briefly reviews the literature on the status of the world's ecosystems with respect to land and water resources and global patterns of land and water degradation, and then focuses on newer insights into how we view the impact of degradation, the essential linkages between the management of land and water, and the social processes that determine land-use decision making and their interaction with land degradation. The second section of the book explores improved management options, both in theoretical contexts and through practical case studies focusing on the integration of land and water within social contexts and management frameworks at larger scales. Section three presents in detail a large compilation of successful case studies gathered under the 'bright spots' project UR - https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781845933876.0000 ER -