The use of eco-engineering in a watershed management program in Southern Patagonia

• Autorzy: Gavino Novillo J.M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A drastic land use change and environmental degradation take place in Southern Andean Patagonia steep watersheds, especially upstream the urbanized areas. The paper presents a synthesis of environmental degradation assessment due erosion at Trabunco-Quitrahue watershed, near the top ski resort of San Martín de los Andes (Argentina). In order to evaluate the degradations processes, a combination of methods is applied by means of GIS techniques with detailed field work. In order to mitigate the soil erosion and land degradation, a Watershed Management Program (WMP) was implemented from interdisciplinary and horizontal cooperation point of view. The WMP includes a set of structural and non structural management measures with the use of eco-engineering techniques. The results demonstrate a growing acceptance of use of "soft measures" combined with traditional ones, in order to mitigate the degradation process. After four years of soft measures implementation the results are very good.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Argentina; flood; Watershed Management Programme; Southern Patagonia; urban area; development; natural risk; environment degradation; management; ecohydrology; water resource; watershed

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: International Journal of Ecohydrology and Hydrobiology
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: 02
• Numer: 1-4
• Opis fizyczny: p.105-112,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Gavino Novillo J.M.

• University of La Plata, 47 No 200[1900], La Plata, Argentina