Community DECISIONS: Stakeholder focused watershed planning

摘要: Successful watershed planning can be enhanced by stakeholder involvement in developing and implementing plans that reflect community goals resource limitations. Community DECISIONS (Community Decision Support for Integrated, On-the-ground Nutrient Reduction Strategies) is a structured decision process to help stakeholders evaluate strategies reduce nutrient imbalances. A accounting algorithm treatment database provide information on loadings costs of alternative loadings. Stakeholders were asked formulate the North Fork Shenandoah River Watershed Virginia select among achieve those goals. The Vector Analytic Hierarchy Process was used rank strategies. preferred Maximum strategy included point source upgrades, riparian buffers, no-till corn silage, wheat cover, bioretention filters developed areas. Participants generally agreed helped improve communication stakeholders, helpful planning, should TMDL (Total Daily Load) planning. suggested more attention paid ensuring all relevant issues are addressed needed make decisions available. with clear scientific about physical socioeconomic processes. However, processes must give adequate time consider may not have been existing models datasets.