Riverine threat indices to assess watershed condition and identify primary management capacity of agriculture natural resource management agencies

Environmental Management

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 567-582

  Fore, Jeffrey D ^a,b   Sowa, Scott P ^b   Galat, David L ^a   Annis, Gust M ^a   Diamond, David D ^a   Rewa, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

^c NRCS Resource Assessment Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural conservation; Management capacity; Missouri river basin; Threat assessment; Threat index; Watershed condition

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; INVESTMENTS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RIVER POLLUTION; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL CONSERVATION; AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT; MISSOURI RIVERS; NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICES; THREAT ASSESSMENT; THREAT INDEX; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES;

AGRICULTURE;

ARTICLE; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GOVERNMENT; INVESTMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER BASIN; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WATER POLLUTION; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84898549139     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0222-6     Document Type: Article

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