A WATERSHED PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS

This research develops a blueprint for a watershed management system, conceived for the South River Watershed in Virginia, that could be used in making decisions about the future development of any similar large urbanizing watershed. The investigation analyzes the problem of land-use planning and management, particularly the need for a system providing long-term rational management and allowing achievement of complex human goals and objectives. Twenty-two tenets of land-use management are cited as fundamental to the design and implementation of such a system, and major phenomena that have obscured or halted comprehensive management efforts in the past are analyzed.

• Corporate Authors:

  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg

  Department of Agronomy
  Blacksburg, VA  United States  24061

  Office of Water Resources Research

  C Street between 18th and 19 Sreets, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20242
• Authors:
  • Giles, RHJ
• Publication Date: 1977-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 141 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Attitudes; Computer programming; Decision making; Design; Economic impacts; Environmental impacts; Flow charts; Heat loss; Jurisprudence and judicial processes; Land use; Land use planning; Management; Mathematical models; Optimization; Public participation; Strategic planning; Systems analysis; Transportation; Urban areas; Watersheds; Wildlife
• Uncontrolled Terms: Management systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Flow charting; South river
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Design; Economics; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Law; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00169671
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: VPI-VWRRC-BULL-102, OWRT-A-064-VA(1)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 14 1978 12:00AM