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    56 results for "orinoco river":

    • How to Protect Free Flowing Rivers: The Bita River Ramsar Site as an Example of Science and Management Tools Working Together
      ...ee Flowing Rivers: The Bita River Ramsar Site as an Example of Science and Management Tools Working Together ... The Orinoco river basin is the third largest river in the world by volume. Its catchment encompasses 27 major sub-basins including the...
    • Celebrating World Rivers Day with our global partners
      ...osystem report cards for river ecosystems, including the Tuul River in Mongolia, the Verde River in Arizona, and the Orinoco River in Colombia. Each of these rivers is beautiful, unique, and essential to the landscapes they flow through. We unders...
    • What you can do to help - exploring tools for Raising the Grade!
      ...ynamics modelling and socio-ecological network analysis. Combining report cards with system dynamics modeling in the Orinoco River. Credit: IAN Press System dynamics modelling can describe how ecosystem functions, enabling varied management scenar...
    • Ecosystem health report card - how should we tell the story?
      ... Coastal Bay, Yucateca River Basin, Tennesse River Basin, Guanabara Bay, Laguna de Bay, Mississippi River Watershed, Orinoco River Basin and Chesapeake Bay. The Laguna de Bay report card showing the front page, flap and back. Credit: IAN Press Typ...
    • Building a Report Card: Getting Started
      ...main universal no matter how you may choose to individually grade your local river ecosystem. Grading schere for the Orinoco River Basin. Credit: Costanzo et. al. 2017. Practitioner's Guide to Developing River Basin Report Cards Obviously, the pro...
    • Don’t Hate, Integrate!
      ... by talking about several published report cards, including the Moreton Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River , and Orinoco River report cards. With each respective report card, new challenges were faced and refinements to the process were consid...
    • Orinoco River Basin — A Report Card Collaboration With WWF
      Orinoco River Basin — A Report Card Collaboration With WWF ... A summary of the Orinoco River Basin Report Card project in Colombia. ... Colombia, Orinoco, Basin, ReportCard, Report, Card, Basin, Watershed, Riv...
    • When to Go Big with Report Cards
      ...ous ground! For example, the Chesapeake Bay Report Card covers a 11,601km2 with a drainage basin of 166,534 km2. The Orinoco River Basin Report Card on the Colombian portion of the 2,150km long Orinoco River. Its 981,446 km2 basin spans two countr...
    • Healthy Rivers for All: December 2017 retreat
      ...rd. Reviewed partnership with Andrea Bassi to develop a system dynamics model for the Bita River, a tributary of the Orinoco River, Colombia . Reviewed our completed project, the Orinoco River report card , and discussed progress on our ongoing pr...
    • Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card
      ... is that it is expensive, time-consuming, and requires very specific expertise. This approach has been tested on the Orinoco River and the Mekong. Finally, social network analysis involves identifying both the defined goals for a basin and the rel...
    • Defining Report Card Indicator Thresholds to Achieve Healthy Outcomes
      ...onal judgment and collective wisdom of the stakeholder group to create basin-specific indicators and thresholds. The Orinoco River Basin report card engaged diverse stakeholders to identify basin values and corresponding indicators. One such examp...
    • Using Poetry to Deliver an “Ignite” Style Scientific Presentation
      ...e post our results on a report card website Highlighting places with problems and places that are all right From the Orinoco River to Chesapeake Bay And from the Willamette River to Guanabara Bay The website serves as report card aides Providing t...
    • Evolution of The Report Cards in Brisbane: Part One
      ...g. Predictably, our contributions to the conference were about ecosystem health report cards: Simon talked about the Orinoco River Basin Report Card, and my talk was on a recent shift in our thinking about the report card process. We also hosted,...
    • Developing a vision for an integrated Darwin Harbour report card
      ...ious report card innovations and developments in other locations like the Chesapeake Bay, Mississippi River, and the Orinoco River. I suggested improvements taken from these projects such as: Comprehensive report cards (ecological, social, economi...
    • The Road to Rio – The Release of the Guanabara Bay Report Card
      ...Brazil, and the second report card we have done in South America. The first report card in South America was for the Orinoco River in Colombia last year. For the Guanabara Bay Report Card, we partnered with PSAM (Environmental Sanitation Program o...
    • Scrooge and the Report Card
      ...uture. Chandet : Where would I find such a thing, Mr. Scrooge? Scrooge : Well, there is this group that produced the Orinoco River report card that my niece showed me. And then I dreamt about some System Dynamics Modelers who can back cast and for...
    • Future Earth's Coasts
      ...t through a participatory report card process in many areas, including  India , the Mississippi River , and the Orinoco River in Colombia, South America . In thinking through the Science Implementation plan, we outlined two papers to establis...
    • IAN's first report card in South America: the Orinoco River Basin
      IAN's first report card in South America: the Orinoco River Basin ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wide Fund (WWF) and...
    • Orinoco River Basin Report Card Methodology Report
      Orinoco River Basin Report Card Methodology Report ... This companion document to the report card contains information about the r...
    • Vichada River Report Card 2016
      ...card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of the Vichada River, a sub-basin in the Orinoco River Basin. In 2016, the overall grade for the Vichada River is a 61%, a B-. This means the Vichada is in moderately good...
    • Tuparro River Report Card 2016
      ...card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of the Tuparro River, a sub-basin in the Orinoco River Basin. In 2016, the overall grade for the Tuparro River is a 77%, a B+. This means the Tuparro is in moderately good...
    • Tomo River Report Card 2016
      ...rt card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of the Tomo River, a sub-basin in the Orinoco River Basin. In 2016, the overall grade for the Tomo River is a 84%, an A-. This means the Tomo is in good health. For fur...
    • Meta River Report Card 2016
      ...rt card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of the Meta River, a sub-basin in the Orinoco River Basin. In 2016, the overall grade for the Meta River is a 48%, a C. This means the Meta is in moderate health. For f...
    • Matavén River Report Card 2016
      ...s a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of the Matavén River, a sub-basin in the Orinoco River Basin. In 2016, the overall grade for the Matavén River is a 87%, an A. This means the Matavén...
    • Inírida River Report Card 2016
      ...ovides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of the Inírida River, a sub-basin in the Orinoco River Basin. In 2016, the overall grade for the Inírida River is a 68%, a B. This means the Inírida is in mo...