How Bad Governance Led to Conflict: The Case of Swat, Pakistan [PDF]
The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in fact bad ...
Adnan, Rasool
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Hydrologic Simulations of the Maquoketa River Watershed Using SWAT Working Paper 09-WP 49,June 2009 [PDF]
, 2009 This paper describes the application of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to the Maquoketa River watershed, located in northeast Iowa. The inputs to the model were obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency’s geographic information/
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بررسی تأثیر تغییر کاربری اراضی بر پاسخهای هیدرولوژی حوضه آبخیز (مطالعه موردی: حوضه آبخیز زنجانرود) [PDF]
پژوهشهای حفاظت آب و خاک, 2012 تغییر کاربری اراضی در یک حوضه آبخیز میتواند تأثیر قابلتوجهی بر چرخه هیدرولوژی و در نتیجه منابع آب حوضه داشته باشد، از اینرو شناخت آثار تغییر کاربری اراضی بر پاسخهای هیدرولوژی حوضه راهگشای تعیین استراتژی مناسب در توسعه پایدار منابع آب حوضههای آبخیز ...
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Addressing Uncertainty in TMDLS: Short Course at Arkansas Water Resources Center 2001 Annual Conference [PDF]
, 2001 Management of a critical natural resource like water requires information on the status of that resource. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported in the 1998 National Water Quality Inventory that more than 291,000 miles of assessed rivers ...
Matlock, Marty, Murawski, Matthew
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The City of Buffalo Police Department [PDF]
, 2017 This fact sheet was drafted by Sarah Wooton, a policy analyst at Partnership for the Public Good. It documents the history and demographics of the City of Buffalo Police Department, its recent activity, its organization and chain of command, the bodies ...
Wooton, Sarah
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Allocating Nutrient Load Reduction across a Watershed: Implications of Different Principles [PDF]
A watershed based model, the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), along with transfer coefficients is used to assess alternative principles of allocating nutrient load reduction in the Raccoon River watershed in central Iowa.
Feng, Hongli +2 more
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The Rule of The Jungle in Pakistan: A Case Study on Corruption and Forest Management in Swat [PDF]
Corruption in the forest sector of Swat, Pakistan is impairing the sustainable management of forest. We analyze corruption in a case study setting against the backdrop of the reform options that are most often cited as possible solutions. As we highlight
Lorenzo Pellegrini
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Changes in the Spatial Allocation of Cropland in the Ft. Cobb Watershed as a Result of Environmental Restrictions [PDF]
Pollution runoff estimates from SWAT are used in a mathematical programming model to optimally model site-specific crop and conservation practices for pollution abatement in the Ft. Cobb watershed in Southwestern Oklahoma.
Adams, David L. +2 more
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The Empirics of Environmental and Distributional Impacts of Conservation Targeting Strategies [PDF]
This study compares the environmental and economic effects of alternative targeting strategies (benefit, cost, and benefit-cost ratio targeting) for reducing nitrate-N water pollution in the Des Moines Watershed in Iowa.
Tanaka, Katsuya, Wu, JunJie
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Relationship between measures of muscular strength, endurance, and power to an occupational task among SWAT operators [PDF]
, 2019 Dawes, Jay +4 more
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