Ecological–economic modeling as a tool for watershed management: A case study of Lake Qionghai watershed, China

Ecological–economic modeling as a tool for watershed management: A case study of Lake Qionghai watershed, China

This paper presents an ecological–economic model for a lake and its watershed systems. We describe the linkage between the watershed system and the lake aquatic ecosystem and the modeling process. The lake–watershed system was divided into six subsystems: social system, economic system, terrestrial ecosystem, lake water system, pollutant system, and lake aquatic ecosystem. The model equations w...

Watershed Modeling - A Case Study

The paper presents applications and models which are beneficial to watershed management in various areas. The intention is to inform about the current capabilities of soft computing, hydrologic analysis modules, and distributed hydrologic models, and to provide an initial guide on implementing soft computing. Watershed is not simply the hydrological unit but also socio-political-ecological enti...

Assessment of Watershed Catchment Ecological Power with Taxonomy Method for Watershed Comprehensive Management (Case Study: Watershed Zydasht, Taleghan)

Nowadays watershed catchments have been introduced as the main point of permanent development in many management discussions. Watershed catchments ecological power assessment and their rankings according to different Ethological criteria is one of the important factors in watershed catchments planning and management. Taxonomy method is one of the most comprehensive planned systems for assessing...

Water-energy-food nexus as a new approach for watershed resources management: a review

Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (agwa): a Gis-based Hydrologic Modeling Tool for Watershed Management and Landscape Assessment

The Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA, see: www.tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa) tool is a GIS interface jointly developed by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wyoming to automate the parameterization and execution of the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and KINEmatic Runoff and EROSion (KINER...