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13 Understanding and Assessing Community Vitality
13 Understanding and Assessing Community Vitality
Pages 361-368
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Yet the potential outcomes and benefits of these programs, irrespective of their potential contribution to community well-being, are largely cast in terms of effects on water quality, filtration avoidance milestones, and regulatory requirements. The implicit assumption appears to be that when money is expended by the Watershed Protection Program, watershed communities benefit (directly or indirectly)
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It also requires systematic analyses of potential relationships -- both positive and negative -- between community well-being and water quality protection activities, even if such contributions are not emphasized in Watershed Protection Program goals and outcomes. Examples of potential relationships might be (1)
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Researchers could use these data and information resources to characterize how watershed communities are faring economically and how they have changed over time. In addition, it would be helpful to compare watershed communities with reference communities of equivalent size and biophysical characteristics but outside of the NYC water supply system to explore the potential effects "with and without" the Watershed Protection Program (directly analogous to the paired watershed studies used to quantify land use and/or watershed management effects discussed in Chapters 5 and 9)
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Some of the perceived conflict between yearround and sometimes maligned second homeowners is based on differences in these meanings (see Armstrong and Stedman, 2013) , as the idea of the region providing both clean water and a playground for wealthier NYC residents, although historically consistent, has challenged the meanings held by some watershed residents for many generations.
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Second, the Watershed Agricultural Program offers technical and financial assistance for best management practices, along with the protection of riparian buffers through the federal Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. The degree to which Watershed Agricultural Program efforts support farm viability should be acknowledged as promoting and sustaining rural agricultural landscapes (even if doing so is not the primary program mission)
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Comprehensive social and economic analyses are needed to update earlier work, test working hypotheses, fill critical gaps in knowledge, and establish baseline conditions to provide a foundation for understanding future programmatic effects. These socioeconomic projects are needed if the full potential of the Watershed Protection Program and the intent of the MOA -- enhancement of water quality protection and community vitality -- are to be fully realized.
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1999. West-of-Hudson Economic Development Study for the Catskill Watershed Corporation: Final Economic Study for the Catskill Fund for the Future.
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