Preface.- Headwater Wetlands.- Mapping Wetlands in European Headwater Areas;.- The Role of Forest on the Hydrology of Headwater Wetlands.- Role of Grassland Ecosystems in Protection of Forested Wetlands.- The Effect of Peat Land Drainage and Afforestation of Runoff Dynamics: Consequences on Floods in the Glomma River.- Impact of Herbaceous Vegetation on Recovery of a Harvested Headwater Catchment.- Leaching of Nitrogen from Upland Forest-Regeneration Sites into Wetland Areas.- Hydrology of Disturbed Peat-Land, Heads of the Valleys, Wales.-Estimation of Water Budget in the Forested Peatlands of Western Ireland.- Role of the Planktonic Communities in the Regulation and Indication of Eutrofication Processes in Shallow Mountain Wetlands.- New Wetland Formation in Subsidence Hollows of Western Donbass, Ukraine.- Integrating Wetlands into Watershed Management: Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands to Reduce Impacts from Urban Stormwater.- Disasters and Climate Change - Their Relation to Wetland Headwaters.- The Alleghe Lake (Dolomites, Italy): Environmental Role and Sediment Management.- Alpine Wetlands from Ecological Network to Land Based Risk Prevention: The Case of Pian Di Spagna, Italy.- Headwater Resources and Headwater Hazards - The Perspective of Environmental Education. Case Study Galtür, Austria.- Hydrology of Wetlands in the Headwaters of Great African Rivers.- Headwater Wetlands in Eastern and Southern Africa. The Evolving Debate.- Economic Contribution of Headwater Wetlands. Experience from western Ethiopia.- The Lake Kinneret Drainage Basin: Headwater Discharges, Hydrology and Nutrient Dynamics in the Hula Valley Wetland.- Environmental Change in Headwater Peat Wetlands, UK.- Environmental Problems of Headwater Wetlands in Hungary.- Headwater Wetlands in the Czech Republic.- Analysis of the Water Balance of Small Páramo Catchments in South Ecuador.- Summary Reports: Wetlands in Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Belarus and Canada.- Headwater and Wetland Protection: The Italian Legal Framework.- Next Generation of Watershed Management Programmes: Objectives and Expected Results.- Conclusion - Wetlands in Context.- List of Contributors.- Participants.- Index.-
