Enhancing the Integration of Watershed Management

Abstract:

The development of integrated watershed management has become an important issue among the most urgent priorities. For a well developed watershed management system, it is crucial to generalize the information from policy drivers as well as natural and social scientists. Our work mainly focuses on development of watershed management strategies in framework of multidiscipline and multi-stakeholder decision making process. In order to integrate information at multiple levels of applied process, the adaptive approaches are particularly studied. Some important integration strategies for watershed management are further discussed in the last part. Based on the available projects, it can be concluded that a well enhanced integration of watershed management will obtain remarkable economic, social and ecological benefits.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 113-116)
• Pages: 1243-1249
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.113-116.1243
• Online since: June 2010
• Authors: Yao Cheng, Fang Ma, Cong Du
• Keywords: Adaptive Approaches, Integration, Multidiscipline, Science Policy, Sustainable Watershed Management

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