Resilience and Adaptive Governance of Stressed Watersheds, an IGERT Program
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
- What are the societal and ecological dimensions of resilient management?
- How can adaptive management and governance build and enhance resilience in stressed watersheds?
- What are the critical thresholds to be avoided, and how do we identify them?
- What are the trade offs among increasing water demands for agricultural, ecological, industrial (ethanol) and urban uses?
- How have changing land-use patterns and the loss of structuring processes affected the provision of ecological goods and services?
- How do we build simple models of complex systems?
- How do we accomplish data mining of complex data sets across multiple spatial and temporal scales?
- How do we develop and implement land use policies which navigate the objectives of different interest groups?
