Title:
Environmental indicators: tracking the status of Georgia’s waters

dc.contributor.author Cowie, Gail
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia. Environmental Protection Division en_US
dc.contributor.editor Carroll, G. Denise en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-05-17T15:15:51Z
dc.date.available 2013-05-17T15:15:51Z
dc.date.issued 2009-04
dc.description Proceedings of the 2009 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 27, 28, and 29, 2009 Athens, Georgia. en_US
dc.description.abstract Since 1997, the Georgia Environmental Protection Division has published a periodic report titled Georgia’s Environment. That report has highlighted current issues or pressures affecting the major environmental media (air, water, and land) and presented data on a small number of indicators to illustrate trends related to those pressures. As part of a broader environmental indicators project, the scope of the report has been expanded to provide a more comprehensive presentation on the state of Georgia’s environment, focusing on three primary objectives for environmental management. The revamped report is intended to serve a public outreach and information function, similar to that of the earlier publication. In addition, the 2006 report, along with related work on environmental indicators, is expected to also highlight emerging issues, potential policy needs, and critical data and information gaps. Development of the 2008 report started with a conceptual model that relates environmental conditions to major human activities that affect those conditions, followed by systematic identification of the indicators feasible to include in a comprehensive assessment of the state of Georgia’s environment. This paper will present the basic outline of the 2008 report, discuss constraints imposed by data availability and current approaches to data collection, and summarize results for select indicators of the condition of Georgia’s water resources. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Sponsored by: Georgia Environmental Protection Division U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Water Science Center U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Water Resources Institute The University of Georgia, Water Resources Faculty en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibility This book was published by Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2152. The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of The University of Georgia, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Research Institutes Authorization Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-307) or the other conference sponsors. en_US
dc.embargo.terms null en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 0-9794100-1-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/46942
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.publisher.original Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, The University of Georgia en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries GWRI2009. Integrating science and policy en_US
dc.subject Water resources management en_US
dc.subject Environmental indicators en_US
dc.title Environmental indicators: tracking the status of Georgia’s waters en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Proceedings
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local.contributor.corporatename Georgia Water Resources Institute
local.contributor.corporatename School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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