MAPPING MODEL FOR WATERSHED MANAGEMENT

Authors

  • Julio César Moraga-Peralta Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Costa Rica

Keywords:

Watershed, GIS, geospatial model, land use planning

Abstract

Human activities have caused major impacts on the environment and therefore in the watershed. In Costa Rica during the last decades, watershed management has aroused great interest due to the increase in the number and intensity of environmental problems that they have generated, it is important to make proposals to guide strategies to reverse the degradation environmental and natural resource depletion, caused by population growth that continues to consume natural resources. In this paper we propose an integrated model-assisted Geographic Information Systems (GIS) oriented to the management and watershed management. GIS for its systemic approach to fit the context of watersheds and allow you to integrate and manage large volumes of data for spatial analysis. Today has been recognized and this use has spread to the most diverse disciplines, becoming strong support systems for decision-making space character.

Author Biography

Julio César Moraga-Peralta, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

Académico, Julio César Moraga Peralta pertenece a la Escuela de Ciencias Geográficas, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Heredia, Costa Rica.

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Moraga-Peralta, J. C. (2013). MAPPING MODEL FOR WATERSHED MANAGEMENT. Geographical Journal of Central America, 2(49), 39-72. https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/geografica/article/view/5008

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Vol. 2 No. 49 (2012): Revista Geográfica de América Central No.49

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Theory, Epistemology, Methodology (Evaluated by peers)

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Moraga-Peralta, J. C. (2013). MAPPING MODEL FOR WATERSHED MANAGEMENT. Geographical Journal of Central America, 2(49), 39-72. https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/geografica/article/view/5008

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