How healthy is your ahupua'a?

Lihla Noori; Scott Atkinson; E. Anders; John Parks; Christian P. Giardina; Kawika Winter; Manuel Mejia; Christine Feinholz; Tiffany Mathews

Treesearch

How healthy is your ahupua'a?

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Lihla Noori, Scott Atkinson, E. Anders, John Parks, Christian P. Giardina, Kawika Winter, Manuel Mejia, Christine Feinholz, Tiffany Mathews

Year:

2018

Type:

Guidebooks

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

Community Watershed Snapshot Guidebook

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Abstract

Hawaii Conservation Alliance's Community Watershed Snapshot Project is a first step to understanding, analyzing and addressing humanity's relationship with its environment as part of the solution to taking care of Hawai`i. The Community Watershed Snapshot Project is a participatory and collaborative process to answer the burning question, “How healthy is your ahupua`a (watershed)?” Completing the snapshots gave our communities the opportunity to produce game plans aimed at improving ridge-to-reef ecosystems by addressing some of the priority issues that currently exist. Through this snapshot process and cooperatively developed communications tools (poster, fact sheet with infographics and PowerPoint presentation), we have a greater ability to proceed on watershed scale resource management as a unified community.

Keywords

Hawaii, watershed management, traditional knowledge

Citation

Noori, Lihla; Atkinson, Scott; Anders, E.; Parks, John; Giardina, Christian; Winter, Kawika; Mejia, Manuel; Feinholz, Christine; Mathews, Tiffany. 2018. How healthy is your ahupua'a? Community Watershed Snapshot Guidebook. Honolulu, HI: Hawai'i Conservation Alliance. 130 p.