Publ. no. 246, (1997) ISBN 1-901502-35-X, 364 + xii pages, price £50.00
This proceedings publication contains 39 papers selected for the FRIEND’97 Conference held in Postojna, Slovenia, from 30 September to 4 October 1997. The FRIEND—Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data—large research project within the framework of UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme (IHP) is an international collaborative study on regional hydrology. Since its inception in northern Europe in 1985 it has developed to embrace six major international groups worldwide with around 75 participating countries. The publication illustrates theoretical and applied links between regional hydrology and the integrated catchment management systems. The roster of issues ranges from hydrological processes and catchment modelling, through spatial and temporal variability, to hydrological extremes. In accordance with the name of the project, there are also several contributions devoted to variability of hydrological regimes which control our domestic, agricultural, industrial, energy and environmental use of water. The proceedings of the two previous FRIEND conferences have also been published as IAHS Red Books and are available from IAHS Press: IAHS Publ. no. 187 contains over 40 papers presenting the scientific results of the FRIEND project at the conference held in Bolkesjø, Norway (April 1989) and IAHS Publ. no. 221 contains 60 papers from the conference held at Braunschweig, Germany (August 1994).