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WORKING WETLANDS: CLASSIFYING WETLAND POTENTIAL FOR AGRICULTURE
The trade-off between environmental
protection and development is most acute in fragile ecosystems
such as wetlands. Many wetland functions effectively “work” for
the benefit of people. However, social and economic factors often
result in pressure to make wetlands work harder, for example, through
their utilization for agriculture. The report presents a systematic
semi-quantitative method of evaluation, which enables the classification
of the “potential” of
using a working wetland for specified agricultural activities.
The approach is based on a form of multi-criteria analysis that
integrates biophysical and socioeconomic aspects of wetland utilization.
PLANNING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL WATER ALLOCATIONS:
AN EXAMPLE OF HYDROLOGY-BASED ASSESSMENT IN THE EAST RAPTI RIVER, NEPAL
Although the protection of the
aquatic environment is high on the world water resources agenda,
most developing countries still lack the technical and institutional
capacity to establish environmental water allocation practices
and policies. The existing methods of assessing environmental water
allocations are either complex and resource-intensive or not tailor-made
for the specific conditions of a particular country or region.
This report presents emerging concepts of environmental flow assessment
and management, focusing on their applicability in the specific
context of the East Rapti River basin, which features one of the
main tourist attractions of Nepal, the Chitwan National Park.
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