2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/22/2018 | 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENTS | 330 A
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND SOCIAL CAPITAL FOR FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENTS
Freshwater ecosystems are imperiled due to competing uses and threats, including agricultural demands, recreational use, pollution, and climate change. Legal protections for freshwaters are largely encompassed in the Clean Water Act of 1972, which mandates the maintenance and restoration of ecological integrity. Beyond this legal framework, however, the social and management capital that is available to implement protections, management, and conservation action is not well understood. To assess the current status of knowledge exchange and social capital, we conducted a social network analysis on the authors and publications related to freshwater assessments for wetlands, lakes, streams, riparian areas, and watersheds.
Despite dominance of academic institutions in the literature, these studies and authors exhibit only a medium degree of network connectedness. Conversely, authors at national laboratories and research stations are highly connected, supporting the leadership role of federal agencies in water quality research. Connectivity between ecosystem types is relatively rare, with riparian and watershed-type assessments exhibiting the lowest connectivity. We explore how the current configuration of knowledge exchange and social capital in the freshwater assessment community could be strategically optimized to better support and improve freshwater management and conservation goals.
- Collaborations
- Conservation
- Network
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Lauren Kuehne
(), University of Washington, lauren.kuehne@gmail.com;
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Julian Olden
(), University of Washington, olden@uw.edu;
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