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Watershed management involves protecting water, land, and vegetation while ensuring sustainable resource use. Learn the importance and role of watershed management in maintaining ecological balance and providing essential goods and services.
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What is the watershed management Watershed management not only deals with the protection of water resources but also the capability of land and vegetation. Watershed serves as a logical and practical unit for analysis, planning and management of multiple resources. • Activity: Read page 3-4 of Brooks, answer what is watershed management. Watershed management-- 2
General purposeof the watershed management (1)protection water resources (2)protection land capability and suitability (3)protection vegetation resource (4)production of goods and services Watershed management-- 2
Watershed management for hydrology and water recources (1)Balance demands for water with supplies (2)Avoid floods (3)Protect the quality of streams and lakes Watershed management-- 2
Watershed management for land resources (1) Land productivity and stability (2) Effects of land use and human activities on soil and water resources Watershed management-- 2
Watershed management for sustainable natural resource development (1)The linkage between upland use and downstream effects (2)The linkage between today’s use of resources and its effects on future generations Watershed management-- 2
What is the watershed management • Watershed management is an integrative way of thinking about all the various human activities on a given area of land that have effects on, or are affected by water. • Water and its interrelationship with other natural resources and their use is the key point for watershed management. Watershed management-- 2
What is the watershed management Somehow the physical facts of watersheds and the political realities have to be brought together. That is the focus of integrated watershed management. Watershed management-- 2
What is the watershed management Watershed managementis the process of guiding and organizing land and other resource use on a watershed to provide goods and services without affecting adversely soil and water resources. Embedded in the concept of watershed management is the recognition of the interrelationships among land use, soil, and water, and the linkages between uplands and downstream areas. 学而时习之,不亦悦乎 Watershed management-- 2
The role of the watershed management • Activity: read page 11, sum up the role of watershed management (1)To achieve the needed goods and services desired by society (2)To maintain sustainable land productivity for future generations Watershed management-- 2
The role of the watershed management (3)To avoid adversely impacting for downstream communities, such floods and water pollution, etc. (4) To protect vegetation resources and wild life (5)To balance the economic input and output between upland and downstream communities Watershed management-- 2