Local Policy Networks and Agricultural Watershed Management

Local Policy Networks and Agricultural Watershed Management

This article emphasizes the critical role of local policy networks for the implementation of agricultural watershed management and the adoption of environmental best management practices. Local networks facilitate diffusion of innovations, the development of social capital, and cultural change. All of these elements are essential for the ability of watershed management programs to successfully ...

Introduction of Local Knowledge on Watershed Management and Aquaculture in Iran (Case Study of Hormozgan Province)

Abstract Indigenous knowledge in the field of water and soil has attracted great attention due to its desirable functions, in particular ensuring high compatibility and maintaining ecological balance as well as attracting popular support and encouraging participation. The need for technology and knowledge that, while responding to the growing needs of societies, will also use the natural reso...

Policy windows, policy change, and organizational learning: watersheds in the evolution of watershed management.

Employing in-depth, elite interviews, this empirical research contributes to understanding the dynamics among policy windows, policy change, and organizational learning. First, although much of the research on agenda setting-how issues attract enough attention that action is taken to address them-has been conducted at the national scale, this work explores the subnational, regional scale. With ...

Policy and Strategy Forestry and Watershed Subsector

Binary Watershed Transform for Segmentationof Agricultural

Segmentation of agricultural products on a conveyor belt is a rst step for product inspection. We consider a new algorithm to achieve segmentation (locating each individual item and placing it in a separate le). We use X-ray images which provide useful internal information on the state of the product (good or bad). The product items considered vary in size, shape, gray-scale properties, and lie...