Linking people to watershed protection planning with a gis: A case study of a central american watershed

Steven Shultz; Fernando Saenz; Glenn Hyman

doi:10.1080/08941929809381110

Linking people to watershed protection planning with a gis: A case study of a central american watershed

Steven Shultz, Fernando Saenz, Glenn Hyman

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Abstract

In the Pacuare River Watershed in Costa Rica, farm size, ownership, and production data were collected and spatially referenced through global positioning surveys and farmer assessments of property boundaries in relation to cadastral maps and air photographs. Using geographic information system (GIS) based spatial overlays, these data were integrated with previously collected land use and land degradation data. The resulting integrated database allowed for land use and degradation data to be classified by alternative farm sizes in order to assess the individual needs and relative priority of a soil conservation program for different farms. In spite of limited funding and many technical and data constraints in Central America, such GIS-based methodologies linking farms and people to biophysically based land use and degradation are seen as a feasible and cost-effective approach to plan and implement soil conservation and other types of natural resource management projects.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	663-675
Number of pages	13
Journal	Society and Natural Resources
Volume	11
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08941929809381110
State	Published - 1998
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Central America
Farm-level ownership and production data
GIS
Land use and degradation
Soil conservation

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Development
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science

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