Projects

Ethnoecology: Stakeholder Perceptions and Use of Andean Landscape Maps and Models

The ethnoecology project seeks to describe and analyze perceptions and understandings of the landscape for people in two communities in Ecuador (Nanegal and Cotacachi) and to […]

Institutions and Natural Resource Management in the Andes: Organizational Capacity and Social Capital in Four Ecuadorian Indigenous Secondary Level Organizations (SLOs) and in Colonization Communities in Nanegal Parish, Pichincha, Ecuador

The overall purpose of this project is to increase the sustainability of Andean landscapes and lifescapes through improved natural resource management partnerships and decisions. The research […]

Institutions and Natural Resource Management in the Andes: Advocacy and Action Coalitions Research in Ecuador and Peru

The overall purpose of this project is to increase the sustainability of Andean landscapes and lifescapes through im- proved natural resource management partnerships and decisions. The […]

Water Resources Management and Environmental Education in Two Andean Watersheds

Water quality and quantity have been getting more attention as indicators of land use. Degradation of water quality due to increases in population, waste disposal and […]

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  • Project Code: AND 99-05
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Sustainable Mountain Futures: Linking People and Information for Effective Landscape Decision-Making in the Andes

The purpose of this activity is to design a research strategy and methodologies that involve local populations (and related stakeholders) in the integration,testing, ground-truthing and adapting […]

Environmental Management Planning and Development Policy Analysis Using a Watershed-Community Model in Lantapan, Philippines

The goal of this activity is to engage in integrated natural resources planning and development policy analysis for the municipality of Lantapan. Research directed at learning […]

Integrated Watershed Modeling for Decision Support and Policy Planning

Watershed protection is an important economic and environmental policy concern throughout Southeast Asia (APO, 1995; Doolette and Magrath, 1990). This research work plan is predicated on […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-24
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Water Resources Management and Education

Citizens were trained in water quality monitoring methods at a workshop in July 1994. This was followed by scores of workshops, meetings, and the establishment of […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-25
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Bio-Economic Modeling of Changes to Traditional Vegetable Production Practices in the Manupali Watershed with Extensions to Other Southeast Asian Watersheds

Land degradation across the high- lands of Southeast Asia is accelerating largely due to the expansion of high value annual cropping. Much of the expansion is […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-26
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Adapting and Transferring Lessons Learned from Manupali to Other Critical Watersheds in Southeast Asia

With the goal of identifying and testing decision support tools and ap- proaches from a portfolio developed from SANREM-Philippines in other critical watersheds in Southeast Asia […]

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  • Project Code: SEA 99-32
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