watershed management Articles
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Designing a model for integrated watershed management in Iran
This study, which designs a model for integrated watershed management in Iran, is based on qualitative research applying a grounded theory methodology. Interviewing was the main tool for gathering data. Using snowball sampling, we chose three categories of informants: (a) academics and experienced natural resource experts, (b) representatives of active environmental non-governmental ...
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Integrating multicriteria analysis and geographic information systems: the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) approach
The ordered weighted averaging (OWA) is a family of multicriteria combination (aggregation) procedures. The generality of OWA is related to its capability to implement different combination operators by selecting appropriate order weights. By specifying suitable order weights it is possible to change the form of aggregation from the minimum-type combination through all intermediate types ...
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Participatory watershed management (PWM): an approach for integrated development of rural India: a case study from Karnataka, southern India
Watershed management is an emerging concept for the efficient use of rain run-off in the rural areas of India. The approach to watershed management is participatory in nature, people friendly, location specific, processed based and geared to cater to the problems and needs of the rural communities. Operation of watershed management is ideal where the rainfall pattern is very short, uneven and ...
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Community Based Ecological Monitoring in Nova Scotia: Challenges and Opportunities
This article examines community-based ecological monitoring in Nova Scotia, with an emphasis on watershed stewardship groups. It discusses successes to date and future challenges, drawing on examples from the Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) and other community groups. The barriers to the generation of robust monitoring datasets and effective participation in watershed management are ...
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The Columbia River Treaty: the politics and possibilities for change
International watershed basins shared by two or more states cover nearly half the land surface of the earth and often present complex, interconnected management challenges. The Columbia River basin has long been considered a model case of international watershed management. The fiftieth anniversary of the Canada–United States treaty that governs the basin occurred in 2014, which was also the ...
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Semi–arid watershed management: the experimental farm and representative catchment of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula
The need for watershed management models in the Arab Republic of Egypt - particularly in the remote arid and semi–arid desert and mountain regions - surfaced once again as one of the very demanding instruments for socio–economic and socio–ecological sustainable development. Highland watershed management and mountainous agriculture are highly impacted under the aspects of climate change, reflected ...
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Collaboration as process: a case study of Michigan's watershed permit
Collaborative watershed management has been heavily promoted and widely implemented to address a variety of natural resource concerns, resulting in the adoption and adaptation of the approach to management by regulatory agencies. Although several characteristics or indicators of success for watershed partnerships have been identified in the literature, these often portray a direct cause and ...
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Sustainable Management of Headwater Resources: The Nairobi `Headwater` Declaration (2002) and Beyond
Abstract: Promoting integrated, self-sustainable management strategies for the management of the zero-to-first- order catchments, which provide the marginal areas of every river basin, is the goal of the 'Headwater Control' movement. Headwaters provide the source of fresh water resources and changes in their characteristics may affect the water resources in all areas downstream. Because of the ...
By IOS Press
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Handbook for developing watershed plans to restore and protect our waters
This handbook provides information on developing and implementing watershed management plans that help to restore and protect water quality. A watershed is the area of land that contributes runoff to a lake, river, stream, wetland, estuary, or bay. A watershed management plan defines and addresses existing or future water quality problems from both point sources and nonpoint sources of ...
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Feasibility of rural regeneration by cooperative watershed resources management in Japan
This study addresses multiple social issues in order to regenerate collapsing rural regions and realise environmentally friendly economic growth from a standpoint of watershed-based management. It is difficult for a single agricultural community to revitalise itself and therefore, such a community needs to seek cooperative management involving other regions and industrial sectors. In this case ...
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Seasonal water quality vs. flow relationships in a small regulated stream
The relationship of a water quality constituent with respect to flow measured at a stream monitoring station can give valuable information about the watershed and in-stream processes about the constituent in question. Seasonal dependency patterns often reveal relationships which would be unnoticed if all data are treated together. The aim of this study is to examine water quality constituent ...
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Effects of model segmentation approach on the performance and parameters of the Hydrological Simulation Program – Fortran (HSPF) models
Although models are one of the most powerful tools for watershed management, their effectiveness is limited by prediction uncertainties resulting from not only model input data but also spatial discretization. In this paper, Hydrological Simulation Program – Fortran (HSPF) models were constructed for the Linyi watershed according to three segmentation approaches including model segments ...
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Development of water scenarios for large lakes in Europe: the case of Lake Peipsi
Qualitative or quantitative description of the future by developing scenarios is a key method when taking a long-term view, e.g., up to 2050. Previously the time frames covered by the scenarios have usually been no more than 20 years. This period can be too short for achieving long-term goals when, for example, testing watershed management plans. This paper is an attempt to introduce and ...
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Phosphorus sorption and potantial phosphorus storage in sediments of Lake Istokpoga and the upper chain of Lakes, Florida, USA
Received for publication October 7, 2007. Phosphorus (P) can be an important nutrient in regulating primary productivity in lakes. The ability of lake sediments to retain P from external sources depends on the physiochemical characteristics of the sediment. To assess the P dynamics in Lake Istokpoga and the upper chain of lakes that drain into Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA, sorption properties of ...
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Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive: procedures and a simple model for the identification of the most cost-effective measures in eutrophicated catchments
According to the European Water Framework Directive (WFD), cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) should be used for measuring the cost and the environmental effectiveness of a measure in water quality management. The purpose of this paper is to argue that, beyond the calculation of the cost efficiency of the measures, additional information related to the cost and the environmental characteristics is ...
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Evaluation of AnnAGNPS and its applications in a semi–arid and semi–humid watershed in Northwest China
The main goal of this study was to evaluate the performance of AnnAGNPS (Annualised Agricultural Non–Point Source Pollution Model) in simulating runoff, sediment loading and nutrient loading in a semi–arid and semi–humid watershed of an area of 1481sq km, located in Northwest China. This model was first calibrated and tested by historic monitoring data and then the validated model was used to ...
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Project - Rouge River Watershed Management Plan
Client: Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. Don Ford, P.Geo. Manager, Hydrogeology, 5 Shoreham Drive, Downsview, ON M3N1S4 Tel:416-661-6600×5369 dford@trca.on.ca Key Personnel: Dirk Kassenaar and E.J. Wexler Building on earlier work on the Oak Ridges Moraine, Earthfx worked with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) to develop key surface water and ...
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Catchment delineation and morphometric analysis using geographical information system
The geographical information system (GIS) has emerged as an efficient tool in delineation of drainage patterns of watershed planning and management. The morphometric parameters of basins can address linear, areal and relief aspects. The study deals with the integrated watershed management of Baliya micro-watersheds, located in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, India. Morphometric analysis in ...
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Catchment delineation and morphometric analysis using geographical information system
The geographical information system (GIS) has emerged as an efficient tool in delineation of drainage patterns of watershed planning and management. The morphometric parameters of basins can address linear, areal and relief aspects. The study deals with the integrated watershed management of Baliya micro-watersheds, located in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, India. Morphometric analysis in ...
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Sustainable natural resource management through multi-regional cooperation
Management of natural resources has clear implications for local, national, and supranational territorial units because of diverse and fundamental implications linked to how and where they are managed. There is a strong need to go beyond local, regional or even national administrative borders, redesigning new geographical areas and starting cross-border cooperative actions for more sustainable ...
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