Lakes and society: The contribution of lakes to sustainable societies

Klessig, Lowell L.

doi:10.1046/j.1440-1770.2001.00131.x

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“…Citizen involvement is essential in broadening the conceptualization of the values of natural resources (i.e. lakes, wetlands, forests) and in implementing integrated management plans (Klessig ; Sheil & Liswanti ; Gurung ; Conrad & Daoust ; Romanelli et al . ).…”

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Degradation of Lake Ziway, Ethiopia: A study of the environmental perceptions of school students

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Lake Ziway in Ethiopia is a freshwater lake supporting multitude uses, including irrigation, fishing, water supply and recreation. However, the lake is being degraded primarily because of various land-and water-use activities in its watershed. Recognizing these human impacts on the lake's water quality and quantity, the perceptions of school students were surveyed under the belief that the future of the lake is largely dependent on this younger generation. The goal of this study was to better understand how students actually recognize the extent to which various human activities impact the water quantity and quality of Lake Ziway. As major stakeholders in their communities, the perceptions of school students from four high schools regarding the changes to the lake over time were investigated. Students were contacted by purposive sampling, based on criteria of student academic performances, and their proximity to the lake. Their perceptions were studied on the basis of an interview survey. The majority of students indicated that high levels of human activities, especially water abstractions and water pollution, were the main lake impacts. Students believe there is a lack of sustainable utilization and protection of the lake. They suggested coordinated activities among all lake stakeholders in the participation and decision-making process to properly manage the lake. Provision of awareness to both local administrations and local communities, concern for establishing an appropriate regulatory body and allocating a sufficient budget, and strict controls on flower farm practices in the lakeshore, also was considered to be of high priority as a means of conserving the sustainability of the lake. The result derived from this survey has important implications for facilitating improved school curricula, and for federal, regional and district level water resource management authorities, in setting priorities and developing policies for the sustainability of Lake Ziway.

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Degradation of Lake Ziway, Ethiopia: A study of the environmental perceptions of school students

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“…The services provided by hydrological ecosystems, especially rivers, are a source of society development (Klessig ). These services can be divided into four large categories (Brauman et al .…”

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Social preferences and economic valuation for water quality and river restoration: the Segura River, Spain

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Martínez‐Paz

Martínez-Carrasco

2011

Water & Environment J

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The Water Framework Directive (WFD) aims at improving the ecological status of the water bodies in Europe. In this context, some rivers are currently being restored and, in accordance with this Directive, the restoration actions have to be evaluated from a socio‐economic approach. This work applies the Choice Modelling method to the WFD provisions for river restoration. This method proves to be useful for the economic valuation of the restoration measures, as well as a very important tool for people's public participation. In this sense, the water quality improvement has been defined as a priority action from a social point of view. Moreover, the method used has provided answers to both basic questions included in the WFD: the calculation of the economic value of the Segura River's ecological flow, the decrease of which would pose an environmental cost, and the estimation of the environmental income generated by this river.

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“…There is also a growing appreciation among scientists, administrators and policy-makers in those nations that successful fisheries management in the Great Lakes' ecosystem requires that decisions are made in both ecological and social contexts (i.e. economic, cultural and political; Castillo & Toledo 2000;Klessig 2001). Binational cooperation nothwithstanding, success in Great Lakes' fisheries management will depend ultimately on the implementation of strategies at regional and local scales.…”

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Sustainable fisheries management in the Great Lakes: Scientific and operational challenges

McCrimmon

2002

Lakes & Reservoirs

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Fisheries managers seek to sustain Great Lakes' fish populations in a large, complex lake‐watershed ecosystem responding to often competing issues: non‐indigenous species, resource allocation and environmental quality. Within the past 200 years, human activity has caused dramatic changes in the character of this ecosystem. Before the 1900s, the offshore fish communities in each of the Great Lakes were dominated by the piscivorous lake trout and burbot. The current fish fauna of the Great Lakes' basin includes 179 species representing 29 families in 18 orders and two classes of fish. Twenty‐five non‐indigenous fish species have established populations in the Great Lakes' ecosystem. Sustainable management of Great Lakes' fisheries depends on social, economic and ecological factors. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent annually to protect and preserve Great Lakes' fisheries and their associated ecosystems. Management of Great Lakes' fisheries on a species‐by‐species basis is pointless. Recreational fishing provides larger economic benefits on the Great Lakes, compared to commercial fisheries. Further, quota management, even when practiced at levels well below maximum sustainable yield, does not lead to stable fish communities. Management will be constrained more by ecological reality than by economic forces, but ultimately a managed system comprised of both indigenous and non‐indigenous fishes is a logical objective.

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Lakes and society: The contribution of lakes to sustainable societies

Cited by 17 publications

References 2 publications

Degradation of Lake Ziway, Ethiopia: A study of the environmental perceptions of school students

Degradation of Lake Ziway, Ethiopia: A study of the environmental perceptions of school students

Social preferences and economic valuation for water quality and river restoration: the Segura River, Spain

Sustainable fisheries management in the Great Lakes: Scientific and operational challenges

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