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=== Our Partnerships with Lake Associations === | === Our Partnerships with Lake Associations === | ||
Revision as of 06:30, 6 April 2016
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CNH-L: Linking land-use decision making, water quality, and lake associations to understand human-natural feedbacks in lake catchments
Worldwide, people benefit greatly from the irreplaceable services provided by freshwater lakes, such as drinking water, recreation, and fisheries. However, human activities in lake catchments contribute to eutrophication and the growth of harmful algal blooms that threaten the very waters upon which people depend. This degradation can generate incentives for behavioral change. For example, lake associations can initiate citizen-driven actions to protect and improve water quality. But will this action come in time? And will it focus on the key drivers of water quality?
This project examines the linkages between land-use decision making, fate-transport of nonpoint source pollution to lakes, lake water quality, the effects of water quality on property values, and the community responses that stimulate changes in land uses. In three lake catchments that vary in the intensity of agriculture, forested land and residential development we build the linkages from land use to water quality to identify the key drivers of lake water quality.
The insights from the three focal catchments will inform the understanding of human-natural system dynamics across thousands of lake catchments spanning the northeastern and midwestern U.S. An understanding of the relationships between and lake water quality and land-use policies will be leveraged to support science-based monitoring, advocacy and volunteerism to develop effective programs to protect and enhance lake water quality.
News & Project Events
Check out the Virginia Tech press release about the project at this link.
Project Information
Our Multidisciplinary Team
This project builds on a strong collaboration among a diverse team of researchers from multiple disciplines and institutions, as well as citizen science groups. Our team's expertise spans the fields of freshwater ecology, environmental and resource economics, hydrology, and social science. Follow this link for a current directory of team members.
Research Objectives and Activities
See these pages for a description of:
Our Partnerships with Lake Associations
This project builds on an ongoing collaboration with our Lake Association partners in each of our focal lake catchments. These associations are civic organizations that engage in outreach and education within and among catchment communities. The lead for this portion of the project is Kathleen Weathers. More information on our lake association partners can be found at:
Acknowledgments
This work is supported as a grant from the National Science Foundation, Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) program, award number 1517823.
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