...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...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
...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...
... 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...
...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...
...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...
...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,...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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 ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wide Fund (WWF) and...
...ience Visualization, Ecological Forecasting in Practice), rolling out new Chesapeake Bay websites, and finishing the Orinoco River report card. ... Bill Dennison...
...r Report Card Workshop. This was the third workshop in Colombia to develop report cards for three tributaries of the Orinoco River. Along with Simon, Sarah Freeman , Catherine Blancard , and Michele Thieme from the WWF office in Washington DC, als...
Bita River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wil...
The Meta River Report Card Workshop - The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia ... This blog is part of the Basin Report Card Initiative: a partnership between the World Wil...
...ards) for rivers of the world. WWF and IAN are currently partnering on a report card for the Colombia reaches of the Orinoco River , but both organizations are quite interested in expanding our approach to other rivers of the world. WWF has a part...
Our first report card in South America – The Orinoco River Basin, Colombia ... This February, I headed further south in America than I have ever before…..to Colombia in...
...ally scheduled to attend this workshop, but we swapped trips and he went to Cali, Columbia for a WWF workshop on the Orinoco River so that I could attend an UMCES Executive Council meeting and join my Science for Environmental Management class via...
