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explicit approach to examine fields within a watershed and explores the conditions under which the agricultural land in the … watershed can meet the demand of a biorefinery. Costs of two dedicated energy crops, switchgrass and miscanthus, are compared … production and pollution constraints in the Wildcat Creek Watershed in Indiana, USA. The process of using a genetic algorithm to …
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of watershed for prioritization purpose. Average annual sediment yield data on grid basis was estimated using Universal …In the present study, Karso watershed of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand State, India was divided into 200 × 200 grid cells and … average annual sediment yields were estimated for each grid cell of the watershed to identify the critical erosion prone areas …
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This article report is a condensed version of “The On-Site and Downstream Costs of Soil Erosion,” PIDS Technical Report 87-04 of the Upland Resource Policy Program. It estimates the economic costs arising from indiscriminate exploitation of the uplands. It also offers a practical methodology...
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This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses the degree of soil erosion in various watersheds based on classified descriptive parameters. It also proposes land use planning and allocation scheme.
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<Para ID="Par1">As the need for energy is increasing, the challenges in the future are to operate existing large hydraulic schemes in more sustainable ways and to develop future water resources projects that are able to achieve a better balance between environmental and socio-economic demands. In this context,...</para>
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The study was conducted in district Swat during 2007 to assess the degree of inequalities existing among rural rice …
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The study was conducted in the mountainous areas of district Swat in the year 2010 to assess the causes of drop outs in …
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(SWAT) model, keeping other input data unchanged to isolate the land use change impacts on surface runoff and water yield …
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implementation costs and the optimal distribution of these practices throughout the watershed is also explored. Results from this …
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The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan …
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