TY - GEN
T1 - A multiple index environmental quality evaluation and management system. Application to a golf course
AU - Thien, Steve
AU - Starrett, Steve
AU - Robel, Robert
AU - Shea, Patrick
AU - Gourlay, Dave
AU - Roth, Cal
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - A method for evaluating environmental quality of large-scale landscapes that bridges scientific research and public use is in great demand. Resource managers, industry and community planners, government policy-makers, and scientists all support an improved environment, but connections between processes, remediation, and management aren't always readily available or understandable to such a diverse community. This paper describes a versatile, simplified, science-based system for making environmental quality assessments and linking outcomes to remedial management. This complex goal becomes attainable by: establishment and use of appropriate scientific databanks, determination of targets for acceptable and unacceptable impact on critical ecosystem functions, simplified visual integration of many indicators, and linkage to management databases. The process is being developed by a multi-disciplinary study of a grassland ecosystem converted for use as a golf course. The system can be easily customized to local conditions and has wide-range application to many types of natural and managed ecosystems. Copyright ASCE 2004.
AB - A method for evaluating environmental quality of large-scale landscapes that bridges scientific research and public use is in great demand. Resource managers, industry and community planners, government policy-makers, and scientists all support an improved environment, but connections between processes, remediation, and management aren't always readily available or understandable to such a diverse community. This paper describes a versatile, simplified, science-based system for making environmental quality assessments and linking outcomes to remedial management. This complex goal becomes attainable by: establishment and use of appropriate scientific databanks, determination of targets for acceptable and unacceptable impact on critical ecosystem functions, simplified visual integration of many indicators, and linkage to management databases. The process is being developed by a multi-disciplinary study of a grassland ecosystem converted for use as a golf course. The system can be easily customized to local conditions and has wide-range application to many types of natural and managed ecosystems. Copyright ASCE 2004.
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U2 - 10.1061/40569(2001)348
DO - 10.1061/40569(2001)348
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:75649087448
SN - 0784405697
SN - 9780784405697
T3 - Bridging the Gap: Meeting the World's Water and Environmental Resources Challenges - Proceedings of the World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2001
BT - Bridging the Gap
T2 - World Water and Environmental Resources Congress 2001
Y2 - 20 May 2001 through 24 May 2001
ER -