There are millions of watersheds in the world - 2,100 small ones in the United States alone [source: NatureServe]. However, a watershed is more than just a piece of land that collects the rainwater and dumps it into the river. Anything that ends up in a watershed ends up in a body...
A new world order has begun to appear since the early 1990s. The simplicity of interaction between individual states, based on the rivalry between the two superpowers, is gradually being replaced by new attitudes formed in a complex, uncertain and risky context. States still have a role, ...
There are substantial financial incentives for the “bundling” of watershed corporations and their assets around the world. 在把世界上的流域公司及其资产进行“打包”方面,提供了相当多的财政激励措施。 UN-2 The representative of the International Tropical Timber Organization said that data on the ro...
The reality and relevance of human population limits to fish-forestry interaction, and the contrasts and perceptions of fish-forestry interactions, are discussed. Additional geographic coverage of fish-forestry interaction are provided: southeastern USA, Central America, temperate South America, Russia and...
Hungarian cartographer Robert Szucs has shared an amazing collection of maps featuring the world's rivers and watersheds in vibrant colors.
Considering that per capita beef consumption in 2017 was estimated to be 57 pounds, by the numbers, federal and state lands ranching fed 13,842,105 people—more than the entire metropolitan area of Los Angeles. To put this into perspective, the world’s population is expected to grow to 9...
10. Populations in low- and middle-income countries make up almost 90% of the 1.8 billion people that are vulnerable to flood risks1. The World Bank has estimated that upgrading flood early warning systems in developing countries to the standards of developed countries would save an average ...
Spain is one of the world's countries with a large number of reservoirs per inhabitant. This intense regulation of the fluvial network during the 20th century has resulted in a decrease in flood events, a higher availability of water resources, and a high development of the irrigated crop area...
US30m, which is derived from the 30m NHDPlusV2.1 for the continental United States. 90m HydroSHEDS for the world between 60 degrees North and 56 degrees South, as well as some areas in Canada and Alaska north of 60 degrees. DataResolution—The data source resolution that was used in the ...
In order to examine the runoff generation processes in an extremely steep terrain underlain by relatively unweathered granite and shale, four small (0.78–7.1 ha) watersheds were monitored – two in shale and two in granite. The two shale watersheds exhibited distinctly different runoff responses ...