Assessing Resilience in Stressed Watersheds
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Assessing Resilience in Stressed Watersheds
Although several frameworks for assessing the resilience of social-ecological systems (SESs) have been developed, some practitioners may not have sufficient time and information to conduct extensive resilience assessments. We have presented a simplified approach to resilience assessment that reviews the scientific, historical, and social literature to rate the resilience of an SES with respect ...
متن کاملAssessing water erosion in small watersheds using WEPP with GIS
Three different approaches using geographical information systems (GIs) and digital elevation models (DEMs) are described and evaluated for applying the Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model to assess water erosion in small watersheds. The first approach describes a typical application of the watershed version of WEPP using GIs only as an aidfor construction of required input files. The...
متن کاملAssessing gender in resilience programming: Uganda
• Reducing gender inequality and empowering women, men, boys and girls is critical to the success of the BRACED Mercy Corps project and its ability to ‘improve the well-being of households, by building the absorptive, adaptive and transformative resilience capacities needed to manage the shocks and stresses of climate extremes and disasters at the individual, household, community and systems sc...
متن کاملResilience through training - assessing cognition in teams
Breakdowns in team cognition are accepted as an explanation for system collapses, especially in complex environments. In the nuclear industry, training for system collapses is a part of the job for control room teams. Such training focus both on improving skills required for recognising and solving disturbances and on improving team processes. This paper presents an approach to team training fo...
متن کاملAIDS and Watersheds: Understanding and Assessing Biostructural Interventions
Introduction Over the past 15 years, evidence has accumulated of how HIV/AIDS impacts rural people who depend for their food and livelihood on agriculture and the management of natural resources. Evidence is also available, though less extensive, of how changes in the rural environment influence the dynamics of HIV/AIDS. It is striking , however, how little this understanding has yet to contrib...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1708-3087
DOI: 10.5751/es-06156-190134