Introduction: Payment for watershed ecosystem services (PWES), a policy instrument for
compensating for the externality of watershed ecosystem/environmental services, has …

A reliable system simulation to relate socioeconomic development with water environment
and to comprehensively represent a watershed's dynamic features is important. In this study …

Intensive tillage (IT) in potato crops is considered as one of the main non-point sources
(NPS) of local water eutrophication in the Fuquene Lake of Colombia. Therefore, the local …

In the Andes, demand for water is growing and upland land-use changes are increasing.
Water quality, quantity and seasonal flow have thus also become environmental services …

Many Andisols of the Andes have been disturbed by traditional potato-based rotation
agriculture disrupting soil structure, water retention capacity and organic matter content. This …

Abstract Study Region The Lenguazaque River Basin is a 290 km 2 headwater catchment of
the Fuquene Lake Watershed in the Colombian Andes. Regional stakeholders are …

In the coming 25–30 years global food production will have to be doubled in order to
maintain food security at the global level. With respect to this to a certain extent the …

The objective of this paper is to review the state of art on integrated water resources
management (IWRM) approaches for sustainable irrigation at the basin scale under semi …

Water quality is a major concern globally and in headwater catchments of developing
countries it is often poorly managed. In these catchments, having scarce and heterogeneous …

This study applies the concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM) to a river
basin in Iran, and in so doing, proposes a framework for implementing IWRM principles …