Pengarang: Martin Haigh

 Josef Krecek, Ph.D. is the founder and managing co-director of the UNESCO-recognized ‘International Association for Headwater Control‘, and former President of ‘EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds‘ . He is Associate Professor of Czech Technical Univerity in Prague, teaching courses on Applied Hydrology and Climatology. Josef’s current work includes research on hydrological processes related to impacts of the climate change and acid atmospheric deposition, as well as the participatory waterhsed management. He is experienced with several international projects in Europe and Asia, and coordinated a number of publications on watershed management and headwater restoration.  Martin Haigh, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. Formerly, he was (Vice-)President of the ‘World Association for Soil and Water Conservation’. He is a Co-Founder of the UNESCO-recognised ‘International Association for Headwater Control’ and co-organiser of most of its international conferences. He is a UK National Teaching Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2010, he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s ‘Taylor and Francis Award for Excellence in Geography Teaching (Higher Education)’. Martin’s current work includes environmental education as well as technical research in landslide prediction and landscape reconstruction in mining and mountainous areas. Thomas Hofer is Forestry Officer and leader of the Watershed Management and Mountains Team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Since 2006, he serves as the secretary of the ‘EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds‘. He has vast field project experience in Asia and Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. He has coordinated the development of a number of flagship publications on watershed management, sustainable mountain development and forest hydrology. Eero Kubin, Ph.D. is former president of ‘EFC/FAO Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds‘, and Management Committee Member of EU COST Action 725. Over 15 years he served as director of the Muhos Research Unit of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, and he is leader of long term research projects on phenology, and environmental aspects of forestry practices. As docent of the Oulu University and Helsinki University he is lecturer on forest ecology and superviser of several doctoral thesis.     Catrin Promper is employee at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management working on natural hazard risk management. She holds a Ph D in Geography from university of Vienna and gained international work experience in the Watershed Management and Mountains Team at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). v>