| 项目编号: | 1360276
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| 项目名称: | WSC-Category 1: Decision Processes, Climate Change, and Water Resources in the Agricultural Midwest |
| 作者: | Adam Ward
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| 承担单位: | University of Iowa
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| 批准年: | 2013
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| 开始日期: | 2014-07-01
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| 结束日期: | 2015-01-31
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| 资助金额: | USD599383
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Earth Sciences
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| 英文关键词: | climate
; change
; water quality
; decision-making
; land management
; watershed management authorities
; agricultural land manager
; decision-making forum
; clean water
; watershed governance
; agricultural midwest
; agricultural practice
; local decision
; research
; policy decision
; water system
; decision-making process
; water resource governance structure
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| 英文摘要: | Covering approximately 40% of the world's landscape, modern agriculture feeds a growing human population and has undeniable impact on Earth's water system. Agriculture affects the supply of clean water to support human activities and ecosystems. A changing climate is a further compounding factor that directly impacts agricultural practices and consequently water quality and quantity. This research will quantify how decision-making by agricultural land managers is influenced by local governance organizations, such as Watershed Management Authorities, and will model the impact of these organizations on water quality and quantity. The research team will construct numerical models to examine the consequences of future scenarios of climate, land management, and land use. Model results will be made accessible to focus groups on a web-based platform, and decision-making forums. To inform future planning, the research team will develop narratives about the social-economic drivers and model-based consequence, strategies for involving governance organizations, advocacy groups, and the general public in policy decisions. This project will integrate teaching and research through the Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities. The public will be engaged through decision-making forums and by crowdsourcing hydrologic data. Outcomes from this research will inform local decision making through partnerships with Watershed Management Authorities and directly sharing results with state legislators in multiple forums. A web-based interface will be created for stakeholders to interact with data and models, which is an experiment that can be extended to other regions.
The overall scientific objective of this research is to project future scenarios for the agricultural Midwest given changes in climate, land management practices, and local governance. The central hypothesis poses that water resource governance structure and economic concerns supersede changes in climate, flooding, drought, or water quality in influencing land management practices and resultant environmental outcomes. The specific research plan includes quantifying how land management activities affect human and environmental outcomes under a changing climate, assessing the influence of watershed governance in the decision-making process by agricultural land managers, and identifying future scenarios for the region in response to changes in land management and climate. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/96601
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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Adam Ward. WSC-Category 1: Decision Processes, Climate Change, and Water Resources in the Agricultural Midwest. 2013-01-01.
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