Nutrient balances in African land use systems across different spatial scales: A review of approaches, challenges and progress

JG Cobo, G Dercon, G Cadisch - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2010 - Elsevier
Nutrient balances are useful tools as indicators of potential land degradation and for
optimizing nutrient use, and are thus highly relevant in the African context. A comprehensive …

The effects of scales, flows and filters on property rights and collective action in watershed management

BM Swallow, DP Garrity, M Van Noordwijk - Water policy, 2002 - Elsevier
Research and policy on property rights, collective action and watershed management
requires good understanding of ecological and socio-political processes at different social …

Root zone soil moisture assessment using remote sensing and vadose zone modeling

NN Das, BP Mohanty - Vadose Zone Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture is an important hydrologic state variable critical to successful hydroclimatic and
environmental predictions. Soil moisture varies both in space and time because of spatio …

Spatial analysis of socioeconomic issues: Gender and GIS in Nepal

S Brown - Mountain Research and Development, 2003 - BioOne
Spatial patterns in socioeconomic data reveal issues and trends that would otherwise be
missed by data aggregation to political or other units. Geographic Information System (GIS) …

The challenges of inclusive cross-scale collective action in watersheds

B Swallow, N Johnson, R Meinzen-Dick… - Water …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing attention to watershed management is part of an international policy trend toward
integrated water resource management. Integration is multidimensional—across sectors …

Socio-economic and environmental aspects of farming practices in the peri-urban hinterlands of Nepal

GD Bhatta, W Doppler - Journal of Agriculture and Environment, 2010 - nepjol.info
Spatial location of the farm households shapes farming practices and livelihoods of the
farmers. Many socio-economic variables have strong spatial relations that would otherwise …

Integrated coastal zone and river basin management: a review of the literature, concepts and trends for decision makers

MA Massoud, MD Scrimshaw, JN Lester - Water Policy, 2004 - iwaponline.com
River management has frequently been associated with water supply and resource
management, whereas coastal zone management has been more concerned with marine …

Increasing uptake of low impact urban design and development: The role of sustainability assessment systems

B Frame, R Vale - Local Environment, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract 'Market transformation'of the significant urban development industry towards more
sustainable practices is not moving at great pace. Design and assessment systems that may …

Virtual water: A framework for comparative regional resource assessment

EK Schendel, JR Macdonald, H Schreier… - Journal of …, 2007 - World Scientific
New developments in water resource allocation techniques range from local management of
green water to international trade in water. A further extension of this is through the virtual …

GIS and remote sensing applications for watershed planning in the Maumee River Basin, Ohio

K Czajkowski, PL Lawrence - Geospatial Tools for Urban Water Resources, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Maumee River watershed is the largest drainage basin that discharges into the
Great Lakes. Although the watershed is largely a rural landscape, several major urban …