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WATERSHEDDS: Water, Soil, and Hydro-Environmental Decision Support System

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Provides information about the Water, Soil, and Hydro-Environmental Decision Support System (WATERSHEDDS), a decision support system jointly designed by North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Pennsylvania State University. The system is intended to help watershed managers and land treatment personnel identify their water quality problems and make the appropriate land management and land treatment decisions. Offers an overview of the system, details of its components, a glossary, an annotated bibliography of nonpoint source literature, and selected case studies. Includes pointers to other water management and environmental sites on the Internet.



Agricultural Water Management

Author : National Research Council

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 16,52 MB

Release : 2007-03-20

Category : Science

ISBN : 0309179254

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This report contains a collection of papers from a workshopâ€"Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunisia. Participants, including scientists, decision makers, representatives of non-profit organizations, and a farmer, came from the United States and several countries in North Africa and the Middle East. The papers examined constraints to agricultural production as it relates to water scarcity; focusing on 1) the state of the science regarding water management for agricultural purposes in the Middle East and North Africa 2) how science can be applied to better manage existing water supplies to optimize the domestic production of food and fiber. The cross-cutting themes of the workshop were the elements or principles of science-based decision making, the role of the scientific community in ensuring that science is an integral part of the decision making process, and ways to improve communications between scientists and decision makers.





Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher : National Academies Press

Page : 423 pages

File Size : 46,23 MB

Release : 2020-12-04

Category : Science

ISBN : 0309679702

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New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.



Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development

Author : Gregory E. Kersten

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 423 pages

File Size : 42,49 MB

Release : 2006-03-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0306475421

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In recent years, much work has been done in formulating and clarifying the concept of sustainable development and related theoretical and research issues. Now, the challenge has shifted to designing and stimulating processes of effective planning and decision-making, at all levels of human activity, in such a way as to achieve local and global sustainable development. Information technology can help a great deal in achieving sustainable development by providing well-designed and useful tools for decision makers. One such tool is the decision support system, or DSS. This book explores the area of DSS in the context of sustainable development. As DSS is a very new technique, especially in the developing world, this book will serve as a reference text, primarily for managers, government officials, and information professionals in developing countries. It covers the concept of sustainable development, defines DSS and how it can be used in the planning and management of sustainable development, and examines the state of the art in DSS use. Other interested readers will include students, teachers, and analysts in information sciences; DSS designers, developers, and implementors; and international development agencies.





Sustainable Watershed Management

Author : I. Ethem Gonenc

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 10,2 MB

Release : 2014-09-09

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1138000183

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This proceedings volume contains papers and extended abstracts presented at the International Conference on Sustainable Watershed Management (SuWaMa 2014). The Conference was the second in a series of Sustainable Watershed Management Conferences. The objective of the Conference Series was to present and discuss advanced environmental models and contemporary decision support tools for the sustainable use and development of watersheds. Contributions cover the following topics: sound watershed management practices (case studies and examples from various countries including lessons learned from implementation of both successful and deficient management scenarios), decision support tools (such as monitoring, GIS, ecological economics, cost/benefit analysis and decision making models), integrated environmental model applications for management (including watershed, air-shed, coastal, and living resource models), trans-boundary environmental issues (air pollution, climate change, coastal oceans at regional, continental, and global scales) and global watershed sustainability. This multidisciplinary volume will benefit natural and social scientists, engineers, managers and other professionals as well as stakeholders with an interest in water resources and their management.