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Institutional Concerns in Watershed Management Role of Geographic Information System (GIS)

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dc.contributor.author Pandit, K.N. en_US
dc.contributor.author Schweik, Charles M. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:35:23Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:35:23Z
dc.date.issued 1994 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-01-27 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-01-27 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1245
dc.description.abstract "Watershed management problems have become extremely acute in developing countries where growing populations are exerting intense pressure on increasingly scarce land and water resources. Traditionally, watershed management was viewed as a bio-physical engineering problem, however, more recent thoughts consider watershed management as an integrated process whereby a natural resource is managed in conjunction with human use to produce a series of goods and services. A watershed is a topographically delineated area that is drained by a stream system. Drainage basin and catchment area are synonymous terms to define a watershed. A watershed may contain numerous natural resources such as arable land, forest, grazing land, streams/rivers, occupants/users etc. These resources may be utilized collectively by one group of people but more likely, diverse group of people may all be utilizing different watershed components with varying levels of use activities. As Hewlett (1993) rightly points out that in the context of drainage basin morphology, managerial activities permissible on one part of a basin may not be permissible on another; the efficiency of management in time, money and manpower is directly affected by the spatial pattern of operations. The rules defining when, where and how an individual's allotted resource units can be harvested or how many labor days(in terms of investment) are required also vary considerably across cases." en_US
dc.subject forest management en_US
dc.subject water resources en_US
dc.subject irrigation en_US
dc.subject sustainability en_US
dc.subject GIS en_US
dc.subject Workshop en_US
dc.title Institutional Concerns in Watershed Management Role of Geographic Information System (GIS) en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.subject.sector Water Resource & Irrigation en_US
dc.subject.sector Forestry en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Mini-Conference of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates April 30-May 2, 1994 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Bloomington, IN en_US


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