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Watershed management field manual Slope treatment measures and practices

FAO Conservation Guide 13/3

Year of publication 1986

Author Forest Products Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Category Manual / guide

Series title FAO Conservation Guide

Series number 0259-2452

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This document constitutes the proceedings of an expert meeting on strategies, approaches and systems in integrated watershed management held in Kathmandu, Nepal, from 25 February to 1 March 1985. The meeting was organized jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and the East-West Center, Environment and Policy Institute (EAPI).

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