Download or read book Development of a Low flow Hazard Model for the Fraser Basin British Columbia written by Martin Carver and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epicentre of the mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak at this time is in the Fraser River drainage basin in British Columbia. Due to the infestation's area and associated salvage harvest options, the potential exists for widespread and significant local and regional hydrologic impacts within the basin. This paper discusses a low-flow hazard model that was developed for third-order catchments within the Fraser River watershed. Baseline and mountain pine beetle-infestation and harvest scenarios were modeled for seven catchments for direct comparison with the Variable Infiltration Capacity modeling results. The model is to be used in risk-based hydrology modeling to produce a comprehensive knowledge of mountain pine beetle-infestation effects on the hydrology of the Fraser River watershed and its major sub-basins in British Columbia, Canada.--Document.
Download or read book Development and Application of a Peak flow Hazard Model for the Fraser Basin British Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development and Application of a Peak flow Hazard Model for the Fraser Basin British Columbia written by Martin Carver and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epicentre of the mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreak at this time is in the Fraser River drainage basin in British Columbia. Due to the infestation's area and associated salvage harvest options, the potential exists for widespread and significant local and regional hydrologic impacts within the basin. The main objective of this paper is to estimate impacts from land-cover change on average peak flows for all third-order (1:50,000) watersheds in British Columbia because peak flows are a major concern for flood hazard, erosion and sedimentation impacts, and other hydrologic consequences. The goal is to provide a model that can be applied to all watersheds and, in particular, ungauged basins throughout the province.--Includes text from document and publisher's website.
Download or read book Perspectives on Sustainable Development in Water Management written by Anthony H. J. Dorcey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Institutional and Policy Analysis of River Basin Management written by William Andrew Blomquist and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors describe and analyze a nongovernmental, multi-stakeholder, consensus-based approach to river basin management in the Fraser River basin in Canada. The Fraser River drains 238,000 km2 of British Columbia, supporting nearly 3 million residents and a diverse economy. Water management issues include water quality and allocation, flood protection, and emerging scarcity concerns in portions of the basin. The Fraser Basin Council (FBC) is a locally-initiated nongovernmental organization (NGO) with representation from public and private stakeholders. Since evolving in the 1990s from earlier programs and projects in the basin, FBC has pursued several objectives related to a broad concept of basin "sustainability" incorporating social, economic, and environmental aspects. The NGO approach has allowed FBC to match the boundaries of the entire basin, avoid some intergovernmental turf battles, and involve First Nations communities and private stakeholders in ways governmental approaches sometimes find difficult. While its NGO status means that FBC cannot implement many of the plans it agrees on and must constantly work to maintain diverse yet stable funding, FBC holds substantial esteem among basin stakeholders for its reputation for objectivity, its utility as an information sharing forum, and its success in fostering an awareness of interdependency within the basin. This paper--a product of the Agricultural and Rural Development Department--is part of a larger effort in the department to approach water policy issues in an integrated way. The study was funded by the Bank's Research Support Budget under the research project "Integrated River Basin Management and the Principle of Managing Water Resources at the Lowest Appropriate Level: When and Why Does It (Not) Work in Practice?"
Download or read book Information Forestry written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Istitutional and Policy Analysis of River Basin Management the Fraser River Basin Canada written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Management and Floods in the Fraser River Basin written by W. R. Derrick Sewell and published by Chicago : Department of Geography, University of Chicago. This book was released on 1965 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fraser Basin Initiative and Integrated Water Resource Management as a Model for River Basin Management Globally written by Dennis W. Balogh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Freshwater resources above and below ground worldwide are deteriorating due to overconsumption and abuse. In the wake of this increasing deterioration, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has come to the fore as a leading process for dealing with freshwater management issues. The Fraser Basin Council (FBC), a river basin management organization in British Columbia, Canada, has been asked to present their basin management model, which operates on IWRM principles, to different countries around the globe through their International Outreach Program. Through reviewing the tenets of IWRM, the various aspects of the FBC, and select freshwater indicators in the Fraser Basin, this thesis analyzes whether the FBC is effective at managing the Fraser River Basin, and if the RBC process is applicable to other basins. Our findings indicate that although the FBC is somewhat effective at managing the Fraser Basin, the FBC model is not necessarily applicable to other basins given the FBC's lack of authority to enforce its own decisions and its reliance on government and stakeholders for action and enforcement."--Page ii
Download or read book Rivers of North America written by Arthur C. Benke and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AWARDS:2006 Outstanding Academic Title, by CHOICEThe 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Best Reference 2005, by the Library JournalRivers of North America is an important reference for scientists, ecologists, and students studying rivers and their ecosystems. It brings together information from several regional specialists on the major river basins of North America, presented in a large-format, full-color book. The introduction covers general aspects of geology, hydrology, ecology and human impacts on rivers. This is followed by 22 chapters on the major river basins. Each chapter begins with a full-page color photograph and includes several additional photographs within the text. These chapters feature three to five rivers of the basin/region, and cover several other rivers with one-page summaries. Rivers selected for coverage include the largest, the most natural, and the most affected by human impact. This one-of-a-kind resource is professionally illustrated with maps and color photographs of the key river basins. Readers can compare one river system to another in terms of its physiography, hydrology, ecology, biodiversity, and human impacts. * Extensive treatment provides a single source of information for North America's major rivers* Regional specialists provide authoritative information on more than 200 rivers* Full-color photographs and topographical maps demonstrate the beauty, major features, and uniqueness of each river system* One-page summaries help readers quickly find key statistics and make comparisons among rivers
Download or read book Seeking Sustainability in the Lower Fraser Basin written by Westwater Research Centre and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Seeking Sustainability in the Lower Fraser Basin, 33 authors from the natural, social and medical sciences analyze the prospects for sustainable development in the lower Fraser basin."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Risk Governance written by Urbano Fra.Paleo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-19 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk. The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, diversity and change. The discussion includes chapters on The problem of governance in the risk society; Making sense of decentralization; Understanding and conceptualizing risk in large-scale social-ecological systems; The disaster epidemic and Structure, process, and agency in the evaluation of risk governance. Part II, focused on governance in regions and domains of risk, includes nine chapters with discussion of Climate governance and climate change and society; Climate change and the politics of uncertainty; Risk complexity and governance in mountain environments; On the edge: Coastal governance and risk and Governance of megacity disaster risks, among other important topics. Part III discusses directions for further advancement in risk governance, with ten chapters on such topics as the transition From risk society to security society; Governing risk tolerability; Risk and adaptive planning for coastal cities; Profiling risk governance in natural hazards contexts; Confronting the risk of large disasters in nature and Transitions into and out of a crisis mode of socio-ecological systems. The book presents a comprehensive examination of the complexity of both risk and environmental policy-making and of their multiple—and not always visible—interactions in the context of social–ecological systems. Just as important, it also addresses unseen and neglected complementarities between regulatory policy-making and ordinary individual decision-making through the actions of nongovernmental actors. A range of distinguished scholars from a diverse set of disciplines have contributed to the book with their expertise in many areas, including disaster studies, emergency planning and management, ecology, sustainability, environmental planning and management, climate change, geography, spatial planning, development studies, economy, political sciences, public administration, communication, as well as physics and geology.
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization written by Karin Kemper and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a worldwide survey of river basin organizations and in-depth studies of eight river basins in a variety of locations around the globe, this book examines how institutional arrangements for managing water resources at the river-basin level have been designed and implemented, the impetus for these arrangements, and what institutional features appear to be associated with greater or lesser success in river basin management.
Download or read book Planning on the Edge written by Penny Gurstein and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vancouver is heralded around the world as a model for sustainable development. In Planning on the Edge, nationally and internationally renowned planning scholars, activists, and Indigenous leaders assess whether this reputation is warranted. While recognizing the many successes of the “Vancouverism” model, the contributors acknowledge that the forces of globalization and speculative property development have increased social inequality and housing insecurity since the 1980s in the city and the region. By evaluating policies at the local, provincial, and federal levels and taking reconciliation with Indigenous peoples into account, Planning on the Edge highlights the kinds of policies and practices needed to reorient Vancouver’s development trajectory along a more environmentally sound and equitable path.
Download or read book Strategic Plan for the Fraser Basin Management written by Fraser Basin Management Board (Canada) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debris flow Hazards and Related Phenomena written by Matthias Jakob and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-26 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With climate change and deforestation, debris flows and debris avalanches have become the most significant landslide hazards in many countries. In recent years there have been numerous debris flow avalanches in Southern Europe, South America and the Indian Subcontinent, resulting in major catastrophes and large loss of life. This is therefore a major high-profile problem for the world's governments and for the engineers and scientists concerned. Matthias Jakob and Oldrich Hungr are ideally suited to edit this book. Matthias Jakob has worked on debris flow for over a decade and has had numerous papers published on the topic, as well as working as a consultant on debris flow for municipal and provincial governments. Oldrich Hungr has worked on site investigations on debris flow, avalanches and rockfall, with emphasis on slope stability analysis and evaluation of risks to roads in built-up areas. He has also developed mathematical models for landslide dynamic analysis. They have invited world-renowned experts to joint them in this book.
