Journal of Water and Sustainable Development

An Integrated Indicator Based on Basin Hydrology, Environment, Life, and Policy: The Watershed Sustainability Index(Translated in Persian)

Document Type : Applied Article

Author

MAHSA RAHMANI

ferdowsi university of mashad

https://doi.org/10.22067/jwsd.v6i2.70209
Abstract
Several issues impact the water sustainability of a river basin. Among them are the social, economic, and environmental aspects. However, they are often treated separately, and not as an integrated, dynamic process. In order to integrate the hydrologic, environmental, life and policy issues, as well as the existing pressures and policy responses in one quantitative, dynamic, and aggregated indicator, a watershed sustainability index (WSI), which uses a pressure–state–response function, was developed and is proposed in this paper. Applied to a 2,200 km2 Unesco–HELP demonstration basin in Brazil (SF Verdadeiro), the value obtained for WSI was 0.65, which represents an intermediate level of basin sustainability.

Keywords

hydrology
Environment
life
policy
watershed sustainability index
SF Verdadeiro
HELP basin
ترجمه از:
Chaves, Henrique & Alipaz, Suzana. 2007. An Integrated Indicator Based on Basin Hydrology, Environment, Life, and Policy: The Watershed Sustainability Index. Water Resources Management, 21: 883-895. 10.1007/s11269-006-9107-2.
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Journal of Water and Sustainable Development
Volume 6, Issue 2 - Serial Number 13
Water-Food-Energy Nexus
Autumn 2019
Pages 69-76

  • Receive Date 22 November 2019

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