Capacity for Watershed Cumulative Effects Assessment and Management: Lessons from the Lower Fraser River Basin, Canada

摘要: This study examines the capacity to support cumulative effects assessment and management for watersheds. The research is set in Lower Fraser River Basin, a densely populated sub-watershed British Columbia's lower mainland. Eight requirements or requisites watershed are applied evaluate current implementation Fraser, identify areas need of development. Results show that advancing requires not only good science but also leadership coordination monitoring programs, ensuring appropriate incentives penalties engagement nonengagement. lack this regard result existing governance structures arranged around political boundaries, which have produced over time multiple agencies jurisdictional fragmentation. Notwithstanding this, we argue most scale assessing managing complex ecosystems.