Environmental Governance and a Poor Local Community:The Development of a Flood Control and Ecosystem Restoration Project in Hamilton City, California

AbstractIn recent years, it has become popular for some of countries and regions to adapt the system of governance to varied and complex issues concerned with regional development and the environment. Watershed management is possibly the best example of this. It involves flood control, water use management and river environment simultaneously. Therefore, comprehensive watershed-based management should be aimed at balancing those aims. The objectives of this study are to introduce the notion of environmental governance into the planning process, to establish a method for assessing the alternatives and to develop a procedure for determining the most appropriate plan for environmental governance. The planning process here is based on strategic environment assessment (SEA). To verify the hypothetical approach, the middle river basin in the Tokachi River, Japan was selected as a case study. In practice, after workshop discussions, it was found to have the appropriate degree of consensus based on the balance of flood control and environmental protection in the watershed.

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Results of Cultural Resources Survey for the Spring Lake Section 206 Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Project, Texas State University-San Marcos, Hays County, Texas

Index of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State ◽

10.21112/ita.2011.1.10 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2011 (1) ◽

pp. Article 10

Author(s):

Carole Leezer ◽

David Yelacic ◽

Jon Lohse ◽

Frederick Hanselmann

Keyword(s):

Aquatic Ecosystem ◽

Ecosystem Restoration ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

State University ◽

Restoration Project ◽

San Marcos ◽

Spring Lake

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Centering the Korle Lagoon: exploring blue political ecologies of E-Waste in Ghana

Journal of Political Ecology ◽

10.2458/v26i1.22988 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 448

Author(s):

Peter C Little ◽

Grace Abena Akese

Keyword(s):

Political Ecology ◽

Ecological Restoration ◽

Social Life ◽

Flood Control ◽

Risk Mitigation ◽

Dominant Role ◽

River System ◽

Toxic Waste ◽

Restoration Project ◽

Political Ecologies

<p>Among emerging studies of the global political economy and ecology of electronic waste (or e-waste), few directly explore the already complex waste trades and materialities in relation to the general political ecology of water, flood control, dredging, and neoliberal ecological restoration. Even fewer focus on how this political-ecological challenge is unfolding in a West African context where ocean-based e-waste trades have played a dominant role. This article engages this particular domain of blue economic critique by focusing on Ghana in general and what we shall call "blue political ecologies of e-waste" in particular. The article focuses on e-waste politics unfolding in and around the Korle Lagoon in Accra, Ghana. The Korle Lagoon is an urban marine space of intensive land use, toxic waste disposal, social life, and urban ecological restoration. Amidst heavy contamination, there are attempts to rehabilitate the lagoon through the Korle Lagoon Ecological Restoration Project, an ecological science and restoration project focused on the Lagoon and its river system in the metropolitan area of Accra. It showcases the neoliberal complexities of ecological restoration. Importantly, situated in a multi-use marine environment, the project also highlights, we argue, a political ecological moment that is both about things 'blue', like water quality concerns, but also about other things non-blue such as contestation over land and housing, 'green' international NGO intervention on e-waste risk mitigation, and desires for new urban ecologies. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted between 2015 and 2018, this article contributes to blue political-ecological research and critique in Africa by asking: how do e-waste politics leak into discussions of the blue economy along the Korle Lagoon in Ghana? What are the promises and prospects of a blue political ecology of e-waste in general, and in Africa in particular?</p><strong>Key Words</strong>: Political ecology, Ghana, e-waste, lagoon contamination, ecological restoration

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Re-habitation and changes in the genetic diversity of aquatic insects in a newly restored shoal type habitat created as the result of a nature restoration project in the central basin of the Chikuma-gawa River

Zoosymposia ◽

10.11646/zoosymposia.10.1.34 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 384-392

Author(s):

RIE SAITO ◽

KAZUKI SEKINÉ ◽

KOJI TOJO

Keyword(s):

River Basin ◽

Flood Control ◽

Large Scale ◽

Central Area ◽

Central Basin ◽

River Channels ◽

Restoration Project ◽

Nature Restoration ◽

Short Period ◽

The Impact

The channels of almost all rivers in Japan have been fixed through the construction of artificial riverbanks to control flooding. In addition, to prevent flooding, maintenance works including the removal of gravel from the channels must be conducted regularly. As a result, the level of most riverbeds within river channels has been lowered, and riverbanks have become far steeper. These large changes to riverside environments have significantly altered the type of habitats available to plants, causing the level of vegetation growth on the riverside to increase. To improve such flood control methods, a new excavation project has commenced in the central area of the Chikuma-gawa River basin, under the auspices of the newly commissioned “Government Nature Restoration Project”. As part of this project, a large shallow environment approximately 1 km in length along the river’s course was newly created. We have attempted to evaluate the impact of this project and the subsequent environmental response, focusing on two dominant benthos, Stenopsyche marmorata and Isonychia japonica, particularly the dynamics of their genetic structure and diversity. Following the excavation of riverbanks and channels, the population density reached the same levels as at the control site, in a relatively short period of time. This is because the research site was limited to a small area within the large-scale river basin, with robust habitats located both upstream and downstream. The two target species in this study represent typical dominant species in the central basin of this river, and occur at high density. In other words, they could be transferred smoothly from the surrounding robust habitats, especially by the flow from upstream.

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