Sustainable Management of Water and Land in Semiarid Areas

 

Günter Gunkel, José A. A. da Silva & Maria C. Sobral (eds.)

 

Content:

 

Introduction                                                                                                                         11     

Chapter 1

Reservoir as a tool in water quantity management                                                         13

 

Water Reservoirs: Worldwide distribution, morphometic characteristics and
thermal stratification processes

Florian Selge & Günter Gunkel                                                                                            15

 

Simulation of hydraulic interaction between Ico Mandantes bay and
São Francisco river, Brazil
Ilhan Özgen, Sandra Seemann, Ana Lúcia Candeias & Reinhard Hinkelmann                   28

Chapter 2

Reservoirs biodiversity and aquatic ecosystem Function                                                39

 

First approach to retrieve chlorophyll-a using remote sensing techniques in
Itaparica reservoir, semiarid of Pernambuco, Brazil 
Helio Lopes, Maria C. Sobral, Günter Gunkel Ana Lúcia Candeis & Gustavo Melo         41

 

Phytoplankton Diversity and Succession in Brazilian and German lakes

Melissa Baptista, Brigitte Nixdorf & Günter Gunkel                                                           60

 

Carbon Cycle and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Maricela Rodriguez & Peter Casper                                                                                    79

 

Capacity capacity of Itaparica reservoir in net cage fish aquaculture.  

Günter Gunkel, Jan Steemann & Maria C. Sobral                                                              99

 

Sustainable water purification at Itaparica - Closing water cycles.
Stephan Pflugmacher, Ronaldo F. Silva, Michal Zymelka, Peter D. Hansen
& Jorge L. A. Silva                                                                                                                  118

Chapter 3

Biodiversity and land use in the Caatinga                                                                     127

 

The use of lands from small watershed of Riacho Itacuruba (PE)

Sebastiao  C. de Souza & Vládia. P. V. de Oliveira                                                           129

 

Mathematical modeling of macronutrients (N, P and K) uptake contents of two
 species of the Caatinga in the semiarid of Pernambuco, Brazil
José A. Aleixo da Silva, Jadson Coelho de Abreu & Rinaldo L. C. Ferreira                 144

 

Analysis and uses of shrub and trees by the Indians in an area of Caatinga in the
municipiality of Floresta, Itaparica region of Pernambuco, Brazil 
José S. F. Ferraz, Rinaldo L. C. Ferreira &, José A. Aleixo da Silva                             165

 

Structure evaluation of the Caatinga vegetation for sustainable forest
management  in the municipality of Floresta, Pernambuco, Brazil

Francisco T. Alves Jr., Rinaldo L. C. Ferreira, R. L. C. Marangon, José A.
Aleixo da Silva & Hugo G. C. Gutterez                                                                           186

 

Chapter 4

Socio-economic analysis of the water reservoir and
reservoir basin management                                                                                         203

 

Environmental indicators for irrigation projects: collection and use of the
Indicator of Sustainability Perceptions on Family Farming (IPSAF)

Renata M. C. M. O: Carvalho, Maria C. Sobral, José A. A. Silva &
Gustavo L. Melo                                                                                                               205

 

Multitemporal Analysis of Albedo, NDVI and Temperature in the
surroundings of Itaparica’s Reservoir – PE, Brazil: years of 1985 and 2010 
Rafaella C. de Moura Matos, Ana Lúcia B.  Candeias, José R. G. Azevedo,
Fred F. Hattermann, Hagen Koch & Birgit  Kleinschmit                                 228

 

Macroeconomic aspects of the micro-regions São Francisco and Itaparica

José Ferreira Irmão, Heinrich Hagel,  Reiner  Doluschitz, Christa Hoffman,
Ana Paula Amazonas & Anderson Flávio                                                                        245

 

Driving forces and barriers for a sustainable management of the Itaparica
reservoir region - basic milestones towards a Constellation Analysis

Verena Rodorff, Guilherme José Ferreira de Araújo, Edvânia Tôrres de
Aguiar Gomes, Johann Köppel, Marianna Siegmund-Schultze, Maria do
Carmo Sobral                                                                                                                            265

 

Spatial decision support system for river basin management incorporating hydroeconomic model for optimal water allocation

Marcia M. G. Moraes, Bruno E. M. Albuquerque  Filho, Carlos A. G. A. Filho
& G. S. Silva                                                                                                                     280