Watershed management and the web
- Univ. of Maryland, Solomons, MD (United States). Inst. for Ecological Economics
Watershed analysis and watershed management are developing as tools of integrated ecological and economic study. They also assist decision-making at the regional scale. The new technology and thinking offered by the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web is highly complementary to some of the goals of watershed analysis. Services delivered by the Web are open, interactive, gas, spatially distributed, hierarchical and flexible. The Web offers the ability to display information creatively, to interact with that information and to change and modify it remotely. In this way the Internet provides a much-needed opportunity to deliver scientific findings and information to stakeholders and to link stakeholders together providing for collective decision=making. The benefits fall into two major categories: methological and educational. Methodologically the approach furthers the watershed management concept, offering an avenue for practical implementation of watershed management principles. For educational purposes the Web is a source of data and insight serving a variety of needs at all levels.
- OSTI ID:
- 696779
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 56, Issue 4; Other Information: PBD: Aug 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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