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The 6th International Conference on Headwater Control (IHC6) was held in Bergen in 2005. This meeting on Headwaters belongs to a tradition established at the first international conference in Prague, 1989 (Krecek et al., 1989) and developed through subsequent meetings (Krecek and Haigh, 1992; Singh and Haigh, 1995; Haigh et al., 1998). Much of any progress made is built upon the foundations of these predecessors and, hopefully, will provide the building blocks from which future headwater understanding will be constructed. IHC6's immediate antecedent was IHC5—'The International Conference on Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources'. This was organised in Nairobi in September 2002 (Jansky et al., 2006; Haigh, 2004). The aim of this extended report is to provide a record for those who did not make the journey to Nairobi and an aide memoire for those who did (Jansky et al., 2006).
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Haigh, M.J. (2010). Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources. In: Integrated Watershed Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3769-5_1
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