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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Watershed Planning"”.
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Infrastructural Landscapes: The Technopolitics of Watershed Planning in Asia
… dissertation examines the technopolitics of watershed management in shaping infrastructure and landscapes in Asia. Technopolitics describes the co-production of power and technologies and how these processes manifest in the physical and social world. Using this conceptual framework, each …
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Spatial and Temporal Resource Allocation Methods for Agricultural Watershed Planning
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Power and Science in Participatory Watershed Planning: A Case Study From Rural Mexico
… study characterizes citizen participation in watershed management and examines the validity of explicit and implicit assumptions that participatory watershed planning models are based upon. Contrary to the claims of participatory watershed planning, consensus-based decision-making did not …
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An integrated modular watershed planning model applied to the Upper South River watershed, Waynesboro, Virginia
… the model is applied to the Upper South River watershed, Waynesboro, Virginia. The following three alternative development plans are evaluated: 1. To permit no additional population growth and preserve the area for agriculture and recreation. 2. To permit concentrated development in the form of …
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Improving Wetland Mitigation in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina With the Watershed Planning and Mitigation Banking Aspects of the New Mitigation Rule
… to provide guidance on the integration of the watershed planning and mitigation banking aspects of the 'New Mitigation Rule' into the wetland mitigation framework of South Carolina. This project performed a watershed-scale wetland condition assessment, assessed wetland conditions in two Coastal …
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Evolution and Application of Urban Watershed Management Planning
The development of Watershed Management Plans (WMPs) in urban areas aids municipalities in allocating resources, engaging the public and stakeholders, addressing water quality regulations, and mitigating issues related to stormwater runoff and flooding. In this study, 63 urban WMPs across the …
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Starting from the River Again. Community Processes to Regenerate Spoiled Ecosystems
… the world. The Dissertation focuses on how watershed planning and management can be enhanced with the purpose of improving the relationship of human communities and natural ecosystems. This work is located within the growing debate, in the field of environmental planning, focused on the …
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How Does VR Enhance or Detract from the Value of Interactive Visualization Tools for Planning and Stakeholder Engagement?
… and virtual reality formats, in supporting watershed planning and stakeholder engagement. Using the Millstream Creek Watershed as a case study, the visualization tools were created using the Unity game engine, and these tools consisted of representations of existing conditions and potential …
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Application of multi-state financial data for use with the USDA Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework
… issues, spatially targeted conservation and watershed planning tools, such as the Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework (ACPF), can bring new and relevant information to conservation efforts. The main goal of this research was to develop and test datasets and methodologies to be used …
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Rethinking Drought: Planning for Water Scarcity and Climate Variability in the Clark Fork Basin of Montana
… These findings could be used to inform drought planning in the Clark Fork River Basin and to guide basin-wide drought planning in the American West. This thesis challenges the assumption of using drought to frame the issue of water deficiency. Deficiencies in precipitation, as a product of …
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Rethinking Drought: Planning for Water Scarcity and Climate Variability in the Clark Fork Basin of Montana
… These findings could be used to inform drought planning in the Clark Fork River Basin and to guide basin-wide drought planning in the American West. This thesis challenges the assumption of using drought to frame the issue of water deficiency. Deficiencies in precipitation, as a product of …
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Evaluation of Conservation Planning in Mexico: A Stakeholder Analysis Approach
A conservation planning protocol based on components from successful conservation projects in Mexico and other countries was developed to evaluate conservation planning practices and to serve as a template to guide future conservation planning efforts in Mexico. My research specifically explored …
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Modeling watershed management with an ecological objective - a multi-agent system based approach
Watershed management is a practice that administers water and land resources within a watershed context for different users under spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability. Meeting water demands for both human and ecosystem and maintaining the harmonic balance between those two is one of the …
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Ecosystem services in planning practice for urban and technologically advanced landscapes
… approaches have been integrated or ignored into watershed management? (2) What is the relationship between technological innovation and the value of ecosystem services? (3) Can the restoration of ecosystem structures and functions influencing stream temperature provide valuable ecosystem services …