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Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Creator:: Eidem, Nathan T.
Abstract:: This research presents the Colorado River basin as a social-ecological system. Utilizing event data on cooperative and conflictive interactions over fresh water, the system is decomposed to look for evidence of outcomes of resilience enhancement. The Animas-La Plata Project in the upper San Juan basin is presented as a case...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: presented on March 8, 2012. Title: Enhancing Social-Ecological Resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

Creator:: MacQuarrie, Patrick R.
Abstract:: River basins provide essential services for both humans and ecosystems. Understanding the connections between ecosystems and society and their function has been at the heart of resilience studies and has become an increasing important endeavor in research and practice. In this dissertation, I define basin resilience as a river basin...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE. ENGINEERING RESILIENCE SEEKS TO OPTIMIZE AROUND A ONE DEFINED OPTIMUM, WHILE

What Lies Below: Options to Improve Sustainable Management of U.S./Mexico Transboundary Aquifers

Creator:: Welch, Christina, N.
Abstract:: Globally, as surface water quality and quantity diminishes there is increasing reliance on groundwater to buffer water demands of growing populations. Today in many arid regions around the world aquifer pumping rates far exceed recharge rates. Often the groundwater is nonrenewable, or thousands of years old. Despite the known hydrologic...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: economic, ecological and security interests at large (Schaefer, 2009). However current research predicts

A river loved : facilitating cooperative negotiation of transboundary water resource management in the Columbia River Basin through documentary film

Creator:: Watson, Julie Elkins
Abstract:: In transboundary water resources policy and management situations, such as the governance of the Columbia River Basin, complex social, ecological, and economic factors seem to be in irreconcilable competition with one another. However, cooperative negotiation provides an outlet for entities and stakeholders to "expand the pie" and develop creative alternatives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Columbia River Basin, complex social, ecological, and economic factors seem to be in irreconcilable

Cross-cultural and Sustainability Values in International Freshwater Management Institutions

Creator:: Porta, E. Lynn
Abstract:: In the process of building international water policies and management institutions, like international treaties and River Basin Organizations, States simultaneously signal the values that they view as most important in these different institutions. Examining expressed and acted-upon values for transboundary freshwater management are currently under-explored areas where overlapping lenses of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: begun to express more interest in the cultural and ecological dimensions of water; however, there is a

The impacts of mining legacy in a water-scarce South Africa : An environmental security perspective

Creator:: Hanlon, Thomas M.
Abstract:: Given the growing human security implications resulting from the high rates of change in social-ecological systems, the general question motivating this research is: how can the traditional security establishment respond to rising non-traditional threats? This question comes from the ongoing debate of whether military resources should be used in some...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: , Resilience, Social-ecological systems, Thresholds, Water Security, Environmental Security Given the growing

The benefits and burdens of flood control policy in the United States on humans and ecosystems : Can one policy allow humans and ecosystems to thrive?

Creator:: Winograd, Scott
Abstract:: Floods are beneficial to nature but can be destructive to humans. For centuries humanity has attempted to control nature and specifically rivers and their flooding. After looking at a history of river management in the United States, an examination of both the burdens and benefits of flood control policy in...
Resource Type:: Capstone Project
Full Text:: fact, “engineering projects and legal agreements have remade nearly every river in the United States

Resilience and adaptability of transboundary rivers : the principle of equitable distribution of benefits and the institutional capacity of the Nile Basin

Creator:: Iyob, Biniam
Abstract:: Biophysical, socioeconomic and geopolitical pressures from population growth and economic development are leading to an increase in tensions regarding the sharing of water within transboundary basins. Transboundary basins are surface rivers and groundwater resources that are shared among sovereign nations and autonomous regions. This dissertation focuses on surface water in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: 3.6.1 Article 6.1 (a): the geographic, hydrographic, hydrological, climatic, ecological

Transboundary river floods : vulnerability of continents, international river basins and countries

Creator:: Bakker, Marloes H. N.
Abstract:: Floods are the most frequent and damaging of all types of natural disasters and annually affect the lives of millions all over the globe. However, researchers seem to have overlooked the fact that floods do not recognize national boundaries. Therefore, the phenomena of shared, or transboundary floods occurring in international...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . They do not necessarily rely on traditional engineering remedies. The desired level of safety is a

The Role of Islam in Water Resources Management: Could it be Integrated into International Water Law Principles (IWLP) for the Islamic-dominated States?

Creator:: Loodin, Najibullah N.
Abstract:: Considering the negative impacts of climate change along with the rapid increase in population in Islamic dominated states, e.g., the Middle East, water tension among upstream and downstream states is increasing. Despite the importance of water in Islamic culture and studies, the role of religion has been under-valued and under-emphasized...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , climatic, ecological and other factors of a natural character; ii. The social and economic needs of the

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Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin

Resilience of large river basins : applying social-ecological systems theory, conflict management, and collaboration on the Mekong and Columbia Basins

What Lies Below: Options to Improve Sustainable Management of U.S./Mexico Transboundary Aquifers

A river loved : facilitating cooperative negotiation of transboundary water resource management in the Columbia River Basin through documentary film

Cross-cultural and Sustainability Values in International Freshwater Management Institutions

The impacts of mining legacy in a water-scarce South Africa : An environmental security perspective

The benefits and burdens of flood control policy in the United States on humans and ecosystems : Can one policy allow humans and ecosystems to thrive?

Resilience and adaptability of transboundary rivers : the principle of equitable distribution of benefits and the institutional capacity of the Nile Basin

Transboundary river floods : vulnerability of continents, international river basins and countries

The Role of Islam in Water Resources Management: Could it be Integrated into International Water Law Principles (IWLP) for the Islamic-dominated States?

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