Leveraging Environmental Data to Promote Cooperation Toward Integrated Watershed Management in the Hebron/Besor Watershed

[...]while in the past the watershed management program might have been facilitated by local governments, today a watershed management program is more likely to act as facilitator and supporter, with the local government as a stakeholder.5 This science-based approach is an iterative process of data...

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Published in:Palestine-Israel journal of politics, economics, and culture economics, and culture, 2014-01, Vol.19/20 (4/1), p.56
Main Authors: Holzer, Jennifer, Albrecht, Tamee, Westheimer, Natasha, Lipchin, Clive
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Collaboration
Decision making
Management decisions
Watershed management
Watersheds
Workshops
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Summary:[...]while in the past the watershed management program might have been facilitated by local governments, today a watershed management program is more likely to act as facilitator and supporter, with the local government as a stakeholder.5 This science-based approach is an iterative process of data collection, centralized data management and data analysis, leading to informed decision making and, ultimately, integrated watershed management practices, as represented in Figure 1. Scenario modeling using computer-based tools such as GIS has been extremely useful in supporting watershed decisionmaking.6 Maps and other graphical representations, quantitative results and detailed scenario modeling can help stakeholders to better understand the implications of potential decisions.7 Research has shown that by including stakeholders early in the modeling process, they are more likely to share their existing knowledge, increase their understanding of the watershed and agree on strategies to address the primary problems in the watershed.8 The process of watershed research and analysis is a method for identifying cooperative projects as well as constituting a cooperative project itself.
ISSN:0793-1395