A5056390855- Water resources management and optimization
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water Resource Management and Quality
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Agricultural and Food Sciences
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Business, Innovation, and Economy
Conservation International
2021
Water crises in Latin America are more a consequence of poor management than resource scarcity. Addressing water issues through better coordination, identification problems and solutions, agreement on common objectives to operationalize integrated resources (IWRM) could greatly improve governance the region. Composite indices have great potential help overcome capacity information challenges while supporting IWRM. We applied one such index, Freshwater Health Index (FHI) three river basins...
Abstract Quantitative assessments have long been used to evaluate the condition of natural environment, providing information for standard setting, adaptive management, and monitoring. Similar approaches developed measure environmental governance, however, end result (e.g., numeric indicators) belies subjective normative judgments that are involved in evaluating governance. We demonstrate a framework makes this transparent, through an application Freshwater Health Index three different river...