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Linking Watershed Management and Ocean Management with Internet-based Mapping Tools
California's long and diverse coastline is the ocean edge of even larger and more diverse watersheds that drain to the ocean through numerous waterways. There is increasing agreement that land and water use within the watershed, essentially watershed management of the planned and unplanned varieties, has a major role in determining water quality in the waterways and along the coastline. Translating this general agreement into a broadly agreed upon description of the problems, possible interventions, and probable effectiveness often founders on three problems: the conflicting watershed `world views' of different departments, misapplication of reasonable solutions to the wrong places, and the difficulty of integrating the stochastic nature of hydrologically driven processes that drain landscapes into rule based regulations. Given that the effectiveness of watershed management for protecting ocean water quality is proportional to how well the interventions are matched to underlying conditions, there is a need for more intuitive and informative tools to identify conditions and the reasonable hypotheses about watershed resource use and downstream water quality interactions.
Linking Watershed Management and Ocean Management with Internet-based Mapping Tools
California's long and diverse coastline is the ocean edge of even larger and more diverse watersheds that drain to the ocean through numerous waterways. There is increasing agreement that land and water use within the watershed, essentially watershed management of the planned and unplanned varieties, has a major role in determining water quality in the waterways and along the coastline. Translating this general agreement into a broadly agreed upon description of the problems, possible interventions, and probable effectiveness often founders on three problems: the conflicting watershed `world views' of different departments, misapplication of reasonable solutions to the wrong places, and the difficulty of integrating the stochastic nature of hydrologically driven processes that drain landscapes into rule based regulations. Given that the effectiveness of watershed management for protecting ocean water quality is proportional to how well the interventions are matched to underlying conditions, there is a need for more intuitive and informative tools to identify conditions and the reasonable hypotheses about watershed resource use and downstream water quality interactions.
Linking Watershed Management and Ocean Management with Internet-based Mapping Tools
Stewart, William (author) / Keithley, Chris (author) / Lockwood, Jeremy (author) / Saving, Shawn (author) / Spry, Eric (author)
California and the World Ocean 2002 ; 2002 ; Santa Barbara, California, United States
California and the World Ocean '02 ; 387-390
2005-03-16
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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