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标题：ASSESSING THE CAPACITY OF A NORTH AMERICAN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT REGIME TO SUPPORT ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
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作者：Juan Pablo Reig ; Jan Adamowski
期刊名称：Journal of Environmental Hydrology (ältere Jahrgänge)
印刷版ISSN：1058-3912
电子版ISSN：1996-7918
出版年度：2011
卷号：19
出版社：IAEH
摘要：The benefits of adopting an approach based on the principles of adaptive management to overcome water resources management challenges and uncertainties are becoming clearer within the scientific community. Ongoing changes in climate and watersheds increase the already complex scenario of trans-boundary watershed management and the associated level of uncertainty. In 2005, the European NeWater project identified a number of key features required for the successful management of trans-boundary river basins. These features were then incorporated into a framework to evaluate whether watershed management regimes were capable of supporting adaptive management, and this framework was then used to assess river basins in Europe, Africa and Central Asia. This paper makes use of the framework for the first time in the United States to evaluate the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed management regime. The outcomes of this research help evaluate the framework, characterize the existing management regime in the Chesapeake Bay, identify elements still missing, and provide material for future research. In addition, the results of this research should prove very useful for other watershed management regimes in the US in incorporating the principles of adaptive management into their trans-boundary basins.