EARLY HEARING DETECTION AND INTERVENTION VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
MARCH 2-5, 2021

(Virtually the same conference, without elevators, airplane tickets, or hotel room keys)

<< BACK TO AGENDA

5/23/2019 | 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | HOW CAN A TOOLBOX SYSTEMATICALLY BUILD CAPACITY BUILDING FOR FRESHWATER MANAGEMENT? | 150 G

HOW CAN A TOOLBOX SYSTEMATICALLY BUILD CAPACITY BUILDING FOR FRESHWATER MANAGEMENT?

Over the past three years, Conservation International (CI) has led the application of the Freshwater Health Index (FHI) in seven countries across the globe to help inform freshwater management. Practically, FHI is a composite indicator system, under which monitored, surveyed and modelled data—covering freshwater ecosystems, human water uses, and, the role that governance and stakeholders—must be collated through a system of major and sub-indicators. Through the development of the FHI framework and its supporting toolkit, we work towards improving its effectiveness to disseminate information of the freshwater system, rank management actions on freshwater health, as well as, explore tradeoffs given projected environmental change. In this presentation, we share lessons learned and present our future direction, focusing on the desktop toolbox being developed to support application of FHI. With this desktop toolbox, we explore the idea of ‘software as a collaborative platform’ for engaging stakeholder with varying technical capacities in a systematic exploration of the freshwater system, while contributing to its knowledge base. This, we argue, plays a valuable role in bridging disciplines and domains across freshwater management systems and a direction to continue developing in.

Management
Monitoring
Environmental Regulation

Presentation:
This presentation has not yet been uploaded.

Handouts:
Handout is not Available

Transcripts:
CART transcripts are NOT YET available, but will be posted shortly after the conference

Presenters/Authors

Kashif Shaad (), Conservation International, kshaad@conservation.org;