Ecohealth and watersheds

"The Watersheds as Settings for Health and Well-Being Project explored connections between watershed governance and human health in five watershed organizations serving a variety of scales across Canada: the Fraser Basin Council (BC), Cowichan Watershed Board (AB), Save Our Seine River Environment Inc. (MB), Otonabee Region Conservation Authority (ON) and Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority (ON). The application of a systemic framework known as the Watershed Governance Prism informed the development of case studies of these five watershed organizations ... Specifically, the Prism framework provided a basis for the watershed organizations to (a) identify and prioritize different types of relationships among watersheds, ecosystems, social systems and health, and (b) make a systematic analysis of how their watershed organization programs interact with determinants of health and well-being"--P. 1.