A selection of 45 of the more action-oriented papers on recognizing, measuring, and mitigating pressure on headwaters from pollution, externally imposed policies, shortages of scientific and technical expertise, land use conflicts that pit local against national priorities, weak local economic systems, and rural depopulation. The topics include acidification processes in high alpine lakes, biofilms as a dynamic component for the sorption of inorganic and organic pollutants in fluvial systems, the runoff regime in small watersheds with different degrees of forest cover, erosion and runoff in Beni-Chougrane's Mountains, sediment yield modeling in the catchments of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, soil bioengineering methods for bank protection, and human and institutional dimensions of sustainable headwater management. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. Read Less