Social and Ecological System Dynamics

SECTION I: Overview.- 1. Introduction: Regional Challenges and Policy Questions.- 2. Problem Overview of the Lake Tana Basin.- 3. System Dynamics as a Framework for Understanding Human-Environment Dynamics.- 4. Bahir Dar and the Lake Tana Basin: Historical Phases of Growth and Ecology. SECTION II: Ecosystem Characteristics.- 5. Climate of Lake Tana Basin. 6. Temporal and spatial climate variability and trends over Abay (Blue Nile) river basin.- 7. Overview of the hydrogeology and groundwater occurrence in the Lake Tana basin, Upper Blue Nile river basin.- 8. Characterization, Classification and Mapping of Soils of Agricultural landscape in Tana basin, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia.- 9. Hydrology of Lake Tana Basin.- 10.- Water quality of Lake Tana basin, Upper blue Nile, Ethiopia: A review of available data.- 11. Plankton of Lake Tana.- 12.- The Fish and the Fisheries of Lake Tana.- 13. Birds of Lake Tana Sub-Basin.- 14. Herpetofauna and Mammals.- 15. Forest Resources in Amhara: Brief Description, Distribution and Status.- 16. Wetlands of the Lake Tana watershed.- 17. Exotic and Invasive plants: Water hyacinth.- SECTION III: Socioeconomic System Characteristics and Land Use.- 18.Demographic Characteristics of the Lake Tana Basin.- 19. Gender and Rural Livelihood in the Lake Tana Basin.- 20. Examining the characteristics of stakeholders in Lake Tana Sub-basin resource use, management and Governance.- 21. Lake Tana Subbasin's Economy and The Role of Natural Resources.- 22.Land Use Distribution and Change in Lake Tana Sub Basin.- 23. Agriculture in the Lake Tana Sub-Basin of Ethiopia.- 24. Challenges and opportunities for increasing farm animal productivity in the Lake Tana Basin.- 25. Urban Areas in the Lake Tana Region.- SECTION IV: Management.- 26. Environmental Protection in the Lake Tana Basin.- 27. Institutional Analysis of Environmental Resource Management in Lake Tana Sub- Basin.- 28. Land use and watershed management practices in Lake Tana basin.- 29. Establishment of the Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve within the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves.- 30. Water -Induced Shift of Farming Systems and Value Addition in Lake Tana Sub-Basin: The Case of Rice Production and Marketing in Fogera District, Northwestern Ethiopia.- 31. Trends and driving forces of eucalyptus plantation by smallholders in the Lake Tana Watershed of Ethiopia.- 32. Waste management in Lake Tana basin - Case of rapidly urbanizing Bahir Dar city.- SECTION V: Synthesis.- 33. Problems, Efforts and Future Directions of Natural Resources Management in Western Amhara Region of the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia: Review.- 34. Participatory System Dynamics Mapping for Collaboration and Socioecological Integration in the Lake Tana Region.