SPATIAL PLANNING FOR INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

Integrated Spatial Data of a Watershed for Planning

Hari Shanker Gupta Department of Geography University College, M.D. University Rohtak PIN-124001 (Haryana) INDIA PHONE : ++91-1262-59076 ® ++91-1262-74955 (O) FAX : ++91-1262 –74640 E-MAIL:[email protected] / ABSTRACT Geographic Information System (GIS) coupled with Remote Sensing has proved as a powerful tool in the field of land evaluation and managem...

Integrated and Problem-Based Management of the Watershed using Strategic Planning Framework

The study aimed to provide a pilot plan to integratedly manage the Barar-rud Watershed in Mazandaran Province based on existing problems. Accordingly, various strategies and their prioritizations were developed for the watershed. Towards that, SWOT was developed through field observation and face-to-face interviews with local stackeholders. The SWOT and quantitative strategic planning matrix we...

Integrated Computing Environments for Watershed Management

This paper describes a new computing paradigm known as a problem solving environment ~PSE!, explores the role this new paradigm might play in watershed management and land use change analysis, and compares PSEs to similar technologies such as decision support systems and geographic information systems. A prototypical watershed management PSE organizes and unifies the diverse collection of softw...

Development of a National Mega Research Project on the Integrated Watershed Management for Iran

Proposed policies for integrated watershed management in order to combat desertification in Euphrates and Tigris basin

Desertification of the arid and semi-arid lands of the world has been proceeding for more than a thousand years.Human-induced degradation in these areas is regularly cited as one of the principal causes of desertification.Euphrates and Tigris Basin as the case study of this research in some aspects is almost unique in the world. But thisbasin has been confronted to progressive desertification. ...