scholarly journals Using communication research to gather stakeholder preferences to improve groundwater management models: a South Texas case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. A02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ric Jensen ◽  
Venkatesh Uddameri
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
South Texas ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Environmental Models ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Stakeholder Preferences

There is a compelling need to ensure that the points of view and preferences of stakeholders are fully considered and incorporated into natural resources management strategies. Stakeholders include a diverse group of individuals in several sectors that have an interest in how natural resources are managed. Typically, stakeholders with an interest in groundwater resources include groups who could be affected by the manner in which the resource is managed (e.g., farmers who need water for irrigation; municipalities and individuals who need drinking water, agencies and organizations that want to maintain in-stream flows to support ecosystems, etc.) Refugio County in South Texas provides an interesting case study since several groups of water users in the region are working with researchers at Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) to develop decision-support models that incorporate stakeholder concerns. The focus of this paper is to provide a series of arguments and approaches about the ways in which stakeholder issues have recently been incorporated into environmental models, to briefly describe some of the TAMUK efforts to develop groundwater models that incorporate stakeholder inputs, and to present and discuss a method in which communication research can be used to obtain stakeholder preferences input into modeling efforts.

scholarly journals Groundwater Modelling in Urban Development to Achieve Sustainability of Groundwater Resources: A Case Study of Semarang City, Indonesia

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1395
Author(s):  
Weicheng Lo ◽  
Sanidhya Nika Purnomo ◽  
Dwi Sarah ◽  
Sokhwatul Aghnia ◽  
Probo Hardini
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Modeling ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Transient State ◽  
Deep Wells ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Observation Wells ◽  
Control Management

Since 1900, Semarang City has been meeting its industrial water needs by pumping groundwater through its underlying aquifers. The trend toward exploiting groundwater resources has driven the number of deep wells and their production capacity to increase, and therefore leads to the water table to drop from time to time, which has been marked as one of the primary causes of land subsidence there. The main aim of the current study was to numerically model the temporal and spatial evolution of groundwater table under excess abstraction so that a groundwater management strategy can be accordingly drawn up for ensuing the sustainability of groundwater resources in the future. A series of numerical simulations were carried out to take into account hydrogeological data, artificial and natural discharges of deep wells, and boundary effects in Semarang City. The groundwater modeling is calibrated under two flow conditions of the steady state from 1970 to 1990 and the transient state from 1990 to 2005 for six observation wells distributed in Semarang City. Four scenarios that reflect potential management strategies were developed, and then their effectiveness was systematically investigated. The results of our study indicate that the implementation of proper groundwater control management and measure is able to restore the groundwater level to rise back in Semarang City, and in turn achieve the sustainability of groundwater resources.

‘Sustainable’ water abstraction: catchment abstraction management strategies in England and Wales

Water Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 647-667
Author(s):  
Cindy Warwick
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Environmental Flows ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Water Quantity ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Water Abstraction ◽  
Water Users ◽  
The Status

Sustainability of water quantity management is largely associated with the provision of environmental flows. However, the implementation of environmental flows has been problematic, particularly when water needed for the environment has already been allocated to other uses. The potential rebalancing of allocations brings other aspects of sustainability to the fore, namely distributional and procedural justice. This paper reviews the Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies (CAMS) programme established in England and Wales in 2001 with the aim of creating a ‘sustainable’ balance between water users and the environment. A review of CAMS outcomes from the first 4 years of implementation found that the ‘sustainable’ balance achieved broadly equates to maintenance of the status quo. This is in part because, without appreciation of the inequities in abstraction rights and the lack of tools for their management, constrictions on environmental improvement remain. Increased transparency of these inequities and constraints is proposed as a priority for procedural justice and as a basis for further decision making regarding allocations. The case study has shown that to move beyond the platitudes of sustainability to real changes for environment and society, the history and institutions of environmental management, distributive justice and procedural justice must be critically reviewed and challenged.

scholarly journals Socio-ecological transformations within the Mayan area of Yucatan, Mexico: Past and present of a water oriented complex society

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Groundwater Pollution ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Government Regulation ◽  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Groundwater System

This research deals with the extensive environmental problems with groundwater resources in Yucatan, Mexico, and some of the ways to cope with these issues. The problems we are referring to are associated to a particular case study in the Mayan area of Yucatan. In this place, where groundwater is the only source of freshwater, the inhabitants have to deal with water problems such as resource scarcity, groundwater pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource degradation. Further, it revealed that one way to improve conservation is to ensure the inclusion of cultural values between people and their environment and this is of significance for evolving strong relations with nature. We examined socio-ecological groundwater relations in contemporary Mayan society by analysing how the ancient Maya obtained freshwater, and how and why contemporary local Mayan communities of Yucatan, Mexico, have transformed the groundwater system by intensify groundwater pollution problems. Several authors have attempted to improve the understanding of complex processes underlying the Maya collapse, and the interactions of this society with nature. But, if the demise of the Mayan populations in the past was the result of complex social and ecological factors, then what are those relations, at present, and how they are conceptualized? What kind of government regulation is necessary, and how can communities make decisions to ensure solutions for conservation, at a time when cultural values, worldviews and traditional practices are being lost? To answer those questions, we review the background to the groundwater problem, and the historical and cultural context of Yucatan groundwater system. We use the Mayan society as a case study to elucidate this and of the induced collapse, exacerbated by the overuse of natural resources in a non- sustainable way. Nevertheless, a very complex traditional ecological knowledge and general worldview of the use of natural resources in Yucatan have significantly shaped the socio-environmental conditions in the region, in particular freshwater resources.

2018 Fiji Election Results: Patterns of Voting by Provinces, Rural-Urban Localities, and by Candidates

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haruo Nakagawa
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
The Political ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Election Results

Akin to the previous, 2014 event, with no data on voter ethnicity, no exit polls, and few post-election analyses, the 2018 Fiji election results remain something of a mystery despite the fact that there had been a significant swing in voting in favour of Opposition political parties. There have been several studies about the election results, but most of them have been done without much quantitative analyses. This study examines voting patterns of Fiji’s 2018 election by provinces, and rural-urban localities, as well as by candidates, and also compares the 2018 and 2014 elections by spending a substantial time classifying officially released data by polling stations and individual candidates. Some of the data are then further aggregated according to the political parties to which those candidates belonged. The current electoral system in Fiji is a version of a proportional system, but its use is rare and this study will provide an interesting case study of the Open List Proportional System. At the end of the analyses, this study considers possible reasons for the swing in favour of the Opposition.

IMPACT OF THE SOUTH-TO-NORTH WATER DIVERSION PROJECT ON GROUNDWATER RESOURCES: A CASE STUDY IN PINGGU BASIN, BEIJING, CHINA

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 2239-2247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guomin Li ◽  
Haizhen Xu ◽  
Ming Li ◽  
Shouquan Zhang ◽  
Yanhui Dong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Resources ◽  
Water Diversion ◽  
The South ◽  
Water Diversion Project ◽  
North Water ◽  
Beijing China

Kelembagaan Masyarakat dan Struktur Agraria serta Keberlanjutan Sumberdaya Alam di Kawasan Capa

Agrotek ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mecky Sagrim
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Property Right ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Group Property ◽  
Young Shoot ◽  
Agrarian Structure

Aim of the research as follows: (1) inquisitive about variation of laws in regulating agrarian resources use, (2) function of traditional law in regulation at used of natural resources and related with existence on natural preservation-in formal law, and (3) inquiring influence outsider intervention to local institutions with the agrarian structure and relationship between expectation agrarian conflict. The unity of the study is Arfak community-as much as local community- was that administrative limited seatle in certain locations around natural preservation area of the Arfak Mountain. The trategy of the research is case study, while analysis of the data with qualitative manner. Result of the research is in the locations study beside property right of local community and movement of Arfak community from high land include at the resettlement programme. Not a problem related with economic subsistence with economic un-security because group property right community give free to the movement community for use to agriculture developing. For developing concept of forest sustainable as nit side to one side, income several NGO as well as role as institution relationship (young-shoot autonomy) for accommodation importance various party supra-village in relationship with existence natural preservation area of the Arfak Mountain and the party of local community in related of security in economic subsistence.

Toward a Philosophical Approach of the Hermeneutics of the Qur’an

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34
Author(s):  
Aliaa Ibrahim Dakroury
Keyword(s):  
Modern Technology ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
True Meaning ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

Although claims questioning whether religious sacred books can be “translated” or not have been heard for quite some time, they have increased with the emergence of globalization and the increasing openness and flow of information due to modern technology. In the context of the relationship between hermeneutics and communication, one could argue that interpreting the Qur’an is an interesting case study for many reasons. Among them is the number of debates and discourses that have been raised both for and against its translation. Another reason, perhaps one of the largest barriers according to some religious Muslim groups, is that the Qur’an is fundamentally revealed and written in Arabic, and, therefore, its true meaning cannot be translated into another language. Certain verses, such as “It is a Qur’an in Arabic, without any crookedness (therein): in order that they may guard against evil” (28:39), have been presented to support this argument.

Investigation of a New Approach to Predict Water Quality Extremes with a Case Study of Chemical Determinands in Stream Water

1991 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
A. J. Jakeman ◽  
P. G. Whitehead ◽  
A. Robson ◽  
J. A. Taylor ◽  
J. Bai
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Probability Distributions ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Hybrid Modelling ◽  
Trend Model ◽  
Environmental Extremes ◽  
Modelling Approach

The paper illustrates analysis of the assumptions of the statistical component of a hybrid modelling approach for predicting environmental extremes. This shows how to assess the applicability of the approach to water quality problems. The analysis involves data on stream acidity from the Birkenes catchment in Norway. The modelling approach is hybrid in that it uses: (1) a deterministic or process-based description to simulate (non-stationary) long term trend values of environmental variables, and (2) probability distributions which are superimposed on the trend values to characterise the frequency of shorter term concentrations. This permits assessment of management strategies and of sensitivity to climate variables by adjusting the values of major forcing variables in the trend model. Knowledge of the variability about the trend is provided by: (a) identification of an appropriate parametric form of the probability density function (pdf) of the environmental attribute (e.g. stream acidity variables) whose extremes are of interest, and (b) estimation of pdf parameters using the output of the trend model.

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