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Effective implementation of watershed management
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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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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Multijurisdictional watershed management in Virginia: experiences and lessons learned
… emerged as an effective way to manage Virginia’s watersheds. These agreements generally result in the development of goals and objectives for the watershed environment, and the implementation of various strategies designed to achieve these goals. Successful agreements often result in stabilized or …
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Web-enabled Spatial Decision Support System for Interdisciplinary Watershed Management
The development and use of web-enabled tools for watershed modeling and decision-making have gained popularity lately with the increase in internet speed and accessibility. Most of the web-enabled tools available today address the watershed problems related to a narrow discipline like hydrology, or …
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Low impact development in urban areas for integrated watershed management across scales
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Optimal Land Use for Watershed Management—a Case Study in the Feitsui Watershed
Watershed management has always been a crucial issue, especially in developing regions where watershed residents are comprised of low-income farmers. The Feitsui Watershed in Taiwan is one such agricultural watershed. Traditionally, the watershed management policy targets only pollution abatement, …
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Effectiveness of Municipal Collaboration for Watershed Management in the Southern Colorado River Basin
… public goods and services. Specifically, the management of a watershed, which can be categorized as a common pool resource, is generally implemented at the local government scale via National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) permits as …
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Agent-based models to couple natural and human systems for watershed management analysis
… environmental models with human factors for watershed management analysis. Using an agent-based modeling framework, two approaches, one based on optimization and the other on data mining-are applied to modeling farmers' pumping decision-making processes in the High Plains aquifer within the …
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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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Conflict and cooperation in watershed management : case study of metropolitan Boston's water supplies
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Aid to the gatekeepers : design principles for technical assistance under coastal nonpoint source watershed management
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Assessment of SWAT to Enable Development of Watershed Management Plans for Agricultural Dominated Systems under Data-Poor Conditions
Modeling is an important tool in watershed management. In much of the world, data needed for modeling, both for model inputs and for model evaluation, are very limited or non-existent. The overall objective of this research was to enable development of watershed management plans for agricultural …
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Integrated Modeling and Optimization of Stormwater Control Measures for Sustainable Watershed Management Under Urbanization and Changing Rainfall Patterns
… are particularly pronounced in mixed urban–rural watersheds, where diverse land uses complicate hydrologic modeling and stormwater planning. To improve resilience in these complex systems, coupled models are essential. While SWAT and SWMM are widely used for runoff simulation, neither can …
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Resident Participation in Watershed Management: Preference for Riparian Landscapes, Attitudes, and Behaviors- Case Study of Cedar River Watershed, Washington
Lower Cedar River Basin is an urban watershed that shares the problem of urbanization and flooding with many other riparian ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. Restoration of the watershed is not only beneficial to the ecological health of the River, but to the flood mitigation of private …
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The Development of a Stream Restoration Decision Support Tool for the County of Henrico Stream Assessment and Watershed Management Program
… are currently developing and implementing watershed programs. While programmatic goals and objectives vary, all seek to incorporate stream restoration project work. Decision support tools exist for many aspects of watershed and water resources management, however, there are currently no …
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Public Health Governance at the Watershed Scale: Exploring Opportunities for Multi-sector Governance to Advance Planetary Health in Northeastern Massachusetts
… geopolitical contexts. Despite the fact that watershed management influences regional public health outcomes through impacts to water quality, water quantity, and climate resilience measures, the organizations focused on watershed management do not have influence that matches the power of …
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Comparing Frontline Managers' Perceptions of Local Capacity for Integrating IWM: A Case Study in Cyanobacteria
Watershed management is a complex process, with a myriad of stakeholders that need to work collaboratively to achieve desired results. Ontario endorses an integrated watershed management (IWM) approach to address water quality issues. Many water quality issues, including cyanobacteria blooms that …
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