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The Adaptive WatershedTraining program for inclusive,
ecosystem-based watershed
management
Module 2The Watershed and its
Socioeconomic Context:
A sense of time and place
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Learning objectives
After completing this module, you will be able to:
1. Describe the principal characteristics of the watershed
(e.g., land use distribution, major economic activities)
by identifying the main land uses and economic
activities in/around the watershed, and understand how
ecosystem services support these livelihoods.
2. Identify a range of methods that help characterize and
analyze activities in the watershed that will be important
in planning for a sustainable future.
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Key questions
• What are the principal resources of the watershed, and
how do we interpret the word “principal”?
• What are the major land use and economic activities
practiced in the watershed (e.g., energy, fishing, crop
farming, livestock, tourism)?
• What management methods can we apply to be better
prepared for an uncertain future?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Tools for understanding your
watershed
Geographic Information
Systems (GIS)Community based monitoringRemote Sensing (for e.g.,
Landsat images from https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/)
Tools for understanding your
watershed (continued)
Participatory mappingAvailable databases
(for e.g., FAO Aquastat)
Activity: Groups build a watershed map (20 min)
• Discuss and describe how you see the watershed
• What are the principal resources and the principal
attributes you feel people should know about our local
watershed?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Presentation: (Insert the
name of the watershed)
Module 1: Introduction: Structure, expectations, goals
In this space, the facilitator would place a Google Earth/Maps image of the local watershed
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Our watershed
• What is the surrounding landscape where we live and work?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Biophysical resources
• What are the major land uses?
• How are they distributed?
• How have they changed in the last 20 years?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Things to understand
• Who are the stakeholders and how do they view their resource requirements?
• What and where are economic activities?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Surrounding landscape
• What landscape condition surrounds major centres?
• What are the valuable aspects in the surroundings (e.g.,
wildlife, forestry, water)?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Climate change makes us rethink agricultureShort video:
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Here the facilitator would include the cover image of the video selected – relevant to the region; ideally it could be inserted into the Presentation so all that has to be done is click play.
Wild places in and around the catchment
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
What native wildlife is in the watershed? What is their value?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Activity: Developing a conceptual model (40 min)
• Same groups
• Refine your map to create a conceptual model of resource flows for the watershed (20 min)
• Elect a member of the group to present the map, highlighting uncertainties (10 min)
• Each group presents its map; peer review by one other group (10 min)
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Do not head into your group until we go over the following four slides
Thinking about your map
• How do water and energy flow through the landscape?
• How do people use and influence those flows?
• Consider quality, quantity and timing of resources
• Consider land characteristics and land management
• In your map, include:
• Biophysical attributes of the watershed
• Stakeholders
• Ownership (i.e., the institutional setting that controls
flows)
• Resource relationships and pathways
• How would you express relationships in a way that allows
you to explain them clearly to someone else?
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Context for the map
• You represent an advisory team guiding the future of the
watershed
• Your goal is to show resources in a map that shows how
the watershed functions, so someone can evaluate
management actions
• Ask the facilitators any questions you choose
• Elect a spokesperson to present your work
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
A map example
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
We’ll use exemplary cultural and natural resources map of the place we are offering the workshop.
Before you begin
• Is anything unclear?
• Is there anything you would like to ask before you begin?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place
Plenary session (20 min)
• Each groups is assigned:
• An order in which to present
• A group to peer review
• Presentations are 2 minutes
• Peer Review: Ask at least one question and identify one
element of the map that could be more clear
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Synthesis
• What overall patterns have we seen, what have we learned
and where do your curiosities lie now?
Module 2: The Watershed and Its Socioeconomic Context: A sense of time and place