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LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
卷 12, 期 5, 页码 387-415出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.461
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soil erosion; sedimentation; sediment yield; sediment delivery; sediment budget; floodplain; river basin management; Zambia; Cs-137
In many developing countries, the management of sediment-related environmental problems is severely hampered by a lack of information on sediment mobilization and delivery in river basins. The sediment budget concept represents a valuable framework for assembling such information, which can, in turn, be used to assist with the design and implementation of soil erosion and sediment control policies, However, the information necessary to construct a catchment sediment budget is difficult to assemble. Against this background, an integrated approach to establishing a catchment suspended sediment budget, involving a river monitoring station, the use of Cs-137 measurements to estimate soil erosion and deposition and floodplain accumulation rates within the catchment, and sediment source fingerprinting, has been developed and tested in the 63 km(2) catchment of the upper Kaleya River in southern Zambia. The approach developed not only provides detailed information on individual components of the suspended sediment delivery system, but also permits the establishment of the overall catchment sediment budget. A sediment budget for the upper Kaleya catchment is presented and both its key features and its wider implications for catchment management are discussed. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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