Do the following exercise on page 222 of Ecosystem Management exercise 10.1 ( go

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Do the following exercise on page 222 of Ecosystem Management exercise 10.1

( go go to this website to get the book http://base.dnsgb.com.ua/files/book/Agriculture/Management-in-Agriculture/Ecosystem-Management-Adaptive-Community-Based-Conservation.pdf) THE EXEXCISE 10.1 WHICH IS

Suppose you are concerned about restoring the eco- logical integrity in a small sub-watershed. The sub- watershed has a mix of public forest and parklands, private agricultural lands, and developed urban/sub- urban areas. It suffers from poor water quality and degraded riparian habitat due to generally poor agri- cultural land-use practices, suburban runoff, and housing construction. A recent scientific study showed that the largest single problem, contributing 30% of the non-point-source pollution, came from one particular landowner.

Discuss the socioeconomic difficulties of ecosys- tem management in such a mixed-ownership water- shed and the possible ways to overcome those diffi- culties. If the landowner contributing 30% of the pollution were a family-owned farm that was eco- nomically marginal and whose pastures and barnyard drained into the river, how would you approach the problem? Identify strategies for helping the farmer im- prove his or her farming practices and the people and organizations you would contact. How would your approach change if the problem were caused by storm water runoff from a wealthy golf course and condominium development?

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The socioeconomic difficulties of ecosystem management in such a mixed-ownership watershed ecosystem:

The major problem would face that the arrangement of prescribed zones for forest, private agricultural lands and parklands. Farmers do not want to move any other area while they are earning through their current agricultural lands. If we try to cut forest zone for making them agricultural lands for farmers with objective to make zones for them, the environmental control bodies will object over that. If we move parklands to other area or try to develop them into farm lands or minimize their zone, the urban population will object them.

Poor water quality needs to be treated by developing water treatment system for whole area. Farmers generally relied upon the riparian area for producing maximum yields. So they will not allow leaving that area. The riparian zone is needed to develop into water treatment system by making a dam over the river.

We can solve these situations by providing the solutions:

People need work for earning. So when we go to do ecosystem management, we need to start all developing work simultaneously. That will provide work for those who are leaving their zone and the suburban development will also tend to develop.

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