TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking people to watershed protection planning with a gis
T2 - A case study of a central american watershed
AU - Shultz, Steven
AU - Saenz, Fernando
AU - Hyman, Glenn
N1 - Funding Information:
Received 28 October 1996, accepted 22 July 1997. This research was initiated when the authors were assistant professor, MSc candidate, and visiting researcher, respectively, in the Watershed Management Area of CATIE and were primarily funded by the USAID-RENARM Project. However, the opinions contained in this article are those of the authors, who are also solely responsible for any potential errors. Address correspondence to Steven Shultz, Agricultural Economics Department, North Dakota State University, P.O. Box 5636, Fargo, ND 58105, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Central America
KW - Farm-level ownership and production data
KW - GIS
KW - Land use and degradation
KW - Soil conservation
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U2 - 10.1080/08941929809381110
DO - 10.1080/08941929809381110
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031725856
SN - 0894-1920
VL - 11
SP - 663
EP - 675
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
IS - 7
ER -