Toward A Watershed Approach
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Toward A Watershed Approach
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
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Toward A Watershed Approach
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
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New Strategies For America S Watersheds
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1999-04-28
New Strategies For America S Watersheds written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-04-28 with Science categories.
Emergence of a toxic organism like pfisteria in tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay has focused public attention on potential hazards in our water. More importantly, it has reminded us of the importance of the entire watershed to the health of any body of water and how political boundaries complicate watershed management. New Strategies for America's Watersheds provides a timely and comprehensive look at the rise of "watershed thinking" among scientists and policymakers and recommends ways to steer the nation toward improved watershed management. The volume defines important terms, identifies fundamental issues, and explores reasons why now is the time to bring watersheds to the forefront of ecosystem management. In a discussion of scale and scope, the committee examines how to expand the watershed from a topographic unit to a framework for integrating natural, social, and economic perspectives as they share the same geographic space. The volume discusses: Regional variations in climate, topography, demographics, institutions, land use, culture, and law. Roles and interaction of federal, state, and local agencies. Availability or lack of pertinent data. Options for financing. The committee identifies critical points in watershed planning to ensure appropriate stakeholder involvement and integration of science, policy, and environmental ethics.
Global Lessons For Watershed Management In The United States
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Author : J. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Release Date : 2004-09-30
Global Lessons For Watershed Management In The United States written by J. Goldstein and has been published by IWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Science categories.
Water resource management in the United States is evolving in the face of continuing challenges to protect water quality, provide adequate quantities of water for competing uses, and protect habitat and other natural resources. In many jurisdictions and agencies this evolution is increasingly leading toward adoption of watershed management. This approach is characterized by planning and decision making on a watershed scale, integration of a variety of competing water resource priorities and goals, cooperation of multiple stakeholders and governmental agencies, and increased levels of public participation. This report identifies the most promising watershed planning and management approaches from around the world; evaluates how they operate, their benefits and limitations; and assesses the degree to which these approaches could be successfully adapted to the U.S. context. Drawing on this international experience, the report is intended to inform policy makers and practitioners and to promote the implementation of integrated watershed management approaches that are most likely to succeed. This report: Provides a decision-making framework of watershed management efforts at all scales in the United States. Evaluates past U.S. watershed management experience and identifies key characteristics for success as well as major challenges and opportunities for improving the watershed approach. Summarizes and evaluates international case studies where innovative watershed management techniques have been used. Identifies ten key lessons for sustainable water management, including the role of water/wastewater utilities based on the experience of the international case study watersheds.
Stepping Toward Better Watershed Management In Nebraska
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Author : Audrey Heisey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Stepping Toward Better Watershed Management In Nebraska written by Audrey Heisey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Water quality management categories.
Swimming Upstream
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Author : Paul A. Sabatier
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005-04-29
Swimming Upstream written by Paul A. Sabatier and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-29 with Political Science categories.
In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative approach of negotiation and problem solving. Rather than focusing on specific pollution sources or specific areas within a watershed, this new process considers the watershed as a whole, seeking solutions to an interrelated set of social, economic, and environmental problems. Decision making involves face-to-face negotiations among a variety of stakeholders, including federal, state, and local agencies, landowners, environmentalists, industries, and researchers. Swimming Upstream analyzes the collaborative approach by providing a historical overview of watershed management in the United States and a normative and empirical conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating the process. The bulk of the book looks at a variety of collaborative watershed planning projects across the country. It first examines the applications of relatively short-term collaborative strategies in Oklahoma and Texas, exploring issues of trust and legitimacy. It then analyzes factors affecting the success of relatively long-term collaborative partnerships in the National Estuary Program and in 76 watersheds in Washington and California. Bringing analytical rigor to a field that has been dominated by practitioners' descriptive accounts, Swimming Upstream makes a vital contribution to public policy, public administration, and environmental management.
Towards Sustainable Watershed Management
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Author : Kaveh Madani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Towards Sustainable Watershed Management written by Kaveh Madani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Watershed management categories.
Within watersheds, social, economical, political and physical subsystems interact. While making decisions, decision makers should be aware of such interactions as any new policy will not only affect one subsystem. To see if a specific management policy is proper, an integrated study is needed of complicated water management system in the basin, considering major physical, social, economical and political aspects of it. System Dynamics provides a unique framework for integrating the disparate physical and social systems important to water resource management and can be used to comprehend the interaction of different drivers of the problem. Here, this approach is used to find, for different scenarios, how various options of demand management and population control can be more effective when combined with transbasin water diversions, increasing water storage capacity and controlling of groundwater withdrawal in the river basin. A simulation model is built based on Causal Loop Diagrams of the watershed problem to comprehend the dynamic and interrelated characteristic of the system, and convey experiences, lessons learned, and perceptions gained through the model development process.
Winning The Water Wars
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Author : Antonio P. Contreras
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Winning The Water Wars written by Antonio P. Contreras and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Watershed Management
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Author : Robert J. Reimold
language : en
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Release Date : 1998
Watershed Management written by Robert J. Reimold and has been published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Nature categories.
Covers the watershed approach to managing water resources in a sustainable fashion with case studies to show how the concept of watershed management is being implemented. Modelling is used to show how systems can be successfully managed in the future. Useful for students on water supply and management courses as well as those already in the field.
Towards Watershed Governance
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Author : Christopher Edward Rose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Towards Watershed Governance written by Christopher Edward Rose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Watershed management categories.
"This research project explores watershed governance approaches in British Columbia in order to assess the implications of the watershed scale for the governance of local water resources. Specifically the research objectives are to: characterize watershed governance approaches in selected communities as exemplified in (though not limited to) recent watershed management planning activities in British Columbia; analyze and compare selected examples in terms of governance changes, as well as barriers and enabling factors to watershed governance, and; explore the implications of the watershed scale for governance, including its relevance to water governance principles and a conceptual framework. The Cowichan, Kiskatinaw, and Nicola River watersheds were selected for this study, and data gathered through a document review and key informant interviews in each case study watershed. The data were subsequently analyzed using a content analysis approach, and findings presented and discussed in relation to the literature. Major barriers identified in the research include restricted local mandates (for water management) and/or a lack of mechanisms for local collaboration and input into decision-making, as well as funding constraints and access to watershed-specific information. Enabling factors identified included leadership from local governments, community and stakeholder groups, as well as cooperation from stakeholders and the provincial government through resourcing and partnerships. The watershed scale was found to have complicated inhibiting and enabling roles in governance approaches, which are discussed, as are its implications for commonly accepted water governance principles. Additional governance considerations for watershed-based approaches are proposed in relation to a conceptual framework."--Leaf vii.