Linking people to watershed protection planning with a gis: A case study of a central American Watershed
作者:
Steven Shultz,
Fernando Saenz,
Glenn Hyman,
期刊:
Society & Natural Resources
(Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 11,
issue 7
页码: 663-675
ISSN:0894-1920
年代: 1998
DOI:10.1080/08941929809381110
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
关键词: Central America;farm‐level ownership and production data;GIS;land use and degradation;soil conservation
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
In the Pacuare River Watershed in Costa Rica, farm size, ownership, and production data were collected and spatially referenced through global positioning surveys and farmer assessments of property boundaries in relation to cadastral maps and air photographs. Using geographic information system (GIS) based spatial overlays, these data were integrated with previously collected land use and land degradation data. The resulting integrated database allowed for land use and degradation data to be classified by alternative farm sizes in order to assess the individual needs and relative priority of a soil conservation program for different farms. In spite of limited funding and many technical and data constraints in Central America, such GIS‐based methodologies linking farms and people to biophysically based land use and degradation are seen as a feasible and cost‐effective approach to plan and implement soil conservation and other types of natural resource management projects.
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