Using a Cognitive Mapping Approach to Frame the Perceptions of Water Users About Managing Water Resources: A Case Study in the Australian Capital Territory

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (9) ◽  
pp. 3441-3456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sondoss ElSawah ◽  
Alan Mclucas ◽  
Jason Mazanov
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Australian Capital Territory ◽  
Australian Capital ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Mapping Approach

scholarly journals Prediction of Daily Streamflow Using Various Kernel Function Based Regression: A Case Study in India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manish Kumar ◽  
Ahmed Elbeltagi ◽  
Ankur Srivast ◽  
Anuradha Kumari ◽  
Rawshan Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Polynomial Kernel ◽  
Daily Streamflow ◽  
Testing Period ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Total Data ◽  
Daily Discharge ◽  
Discharge Estimation

Abstract River daily discharge estimation and modeling considers an important step for scheduling and planning different water resources for sustainable socio-economic development. In the current work, four techniques of Gaussian processes regression (GPR): Polynomial Kernel, Radial Basis Function Kernel, Normalized Polynomial Kernel, and PUK Kernel, were used to model the daily discharge. Hydrological-datasets containing daily-stage (m) and discharge (m3/sec) were gathered over the period from 2004-2013. The datasets were divided into two sections: (i) models training containing 70% (2004-2010) of the total data and (ii) remaining 30% (2011- 2013) were for testing. Comparing all the four developed models, our findings show that the superlative model was the PUK-Kernel model with a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.96, MAE of 36.70 m3/s, RMSE of 90.92 m3/s, RAE of 17.50 %, RRSE of 26.05 % in the training period. Whereas, it performed equally well in the testing period with r = 0.97, MAE = 44.84 m3/s, RMSE = 95.05 m3/s, RAE = 17.98 %, RRSE = 24.94 % in the testing period. Our findings can be included that GPR-PUK was more accurate and stable than other models, and can be used to help water-users, decision-makers, development-planners for managing water resources and achieving sustainable development.

scholarly journals Exploration and Practice of Rigid Restraint System of Water Resources at County Level: A case study of Yongkang City

2021 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 01020
Author(s):  
Suchun Chen ◽  
Shiwu Wang ◽  
Jinxing Li
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Rigid Constraint ◽  
Promotion Mechanism ◽  
General Secretary

General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed to take water resources as the maximum rigid restriction, emphasize using water resources as its capacity permits, and actively explore new ways of high-quality development with regional characteristics. Yongkang is a water shortage county in the southern water-rich area. The contradiction between insufficient water supply and rapid economic and social development and continuous improvement of ecological environment is more prominent. In this paper, industrial water users are taken as the key control objects, and the added value of unit water consumption is taken as the rigid constraint index of water resources. It is incorporated into the reform of “heroes per acre” and integrated with the existing water resources management system to design the collaborative promotion mechanism framework of general rigid constraint of water resources. Then, the application practice in Yongkang is carried out, and the responsibilities of various administrative departments are clarified.

scholarly journals Herbivore management for biodiversity conservation: A case study of kangaroos in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (S1) ◽  
pp. 124-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Gordon ◽  
Melissa Snape ◽  
Don Fletcher ◽  
Brett Howland ◽  
Graeme Coulson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Australian Capital Territory ◽  
Australian Capital

Media coverage of lethal control: A case study of kangaroo culling in the Australian Capital Territory

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merryn McKinnon ◽  
Mizaan Ahmad ◽  
Meg Bongers ◽  
Rory Chevalier ◽  
Isabel Telfer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Australian Capital Territory ◽  
Lethal Control ◽  
Australian Capital

scholarly journals Sea Water Intrusion in a Coastal Aquifer: A Case Study for the Area Between Seeb and Suwaiq, Sultanate of Oman

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al Barwani ◽  
Tariq Helmi
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Coastal Aquifer ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Groundwater Occurrence ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Water Quality And Quantity

The Batinah Coastal plain, located between the Hajar mountains and the sea, from Muscat to the UAE border, is a favorable region for groundwater occurrence in Oman and the main source of fresh water in this coastal area. The coastal parts of the Batinah plain, particularly Barka and Suwaiq, have suffered from groundwater deterioration over the past 20 years. This paper reviews the monitoring activities of groundwater electrical conductivity in the Batinah coastal plain between Seeb and Suwaiq over the period 1984 to 2005, an area of approximately 394 km2. GIS and Auto-Cad techniques were applied to illustrate different salinity zones as the wells coordinates and their field EC were digitized on maps with contours. Zones of salinity ranges are identified and their areas were computed and compared to the total catchment area of each wadi. All samples were collected from the same upper gravel layer, ranging in depth 20-100 meters. There has been a substantial deterioration in water quality as indicated by a 7% reduction in areas of water suitable for agriculture use (2.000 – 6.000 μS/cm), reflecting a loss of 2,714 hectares of irrigated land. Also, a saline interface is reported 12 km inland at Wadi al Taww, Barka area, an indication of aquifer over-exploitation. It is therefore critical that monitoring of water quality and quantity is continued. It is recommended to improve implementation of the standard water resources management solutions to coastal aquifer saline contamination. Cooperation of different organizations and water users is essential to conserve these precious water resources. 

The Failure of Assessment: Critical Responses to the ASAT Debate

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-77
Author(s):  
Denise Meredyth
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equity ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude Test ◽  
Australian Capital Territory ◽  
Aptitude Test ◽  
Australian Capital ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude ◽  
Australian Education ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Modern Apparatus

Critical educational commentary on the problem of assessment has attempted to apply political and philosophical coherence to a dispersed collection of problems, by representing the field as polarised by absolute oppositions of principle. This paper attempts to set aside these global formulations, arguing that they bear little relation to the more piecemeal elements of the problems endemic to the modern apparatus of assessment. Drawing on recent Foucaultian work on Australian education, it explores these arguments via a case study of debates on the Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test and gender equity in the Australian Capital Territory. The conundrums arising from this example are treated as suggestive of some limitations of current forms of educational critique.

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