This Action Plan reflects the Mississippi river watershed nutrient task force's commitment to improve the 2001 Action Plan, track progress, update the science, and adapt actions to improve the effectiveness of the efforts throughout the Basin. The improvement of the 2001 Action Plan focuses on adaptive management approach and on the following six major policy themes: 1) acknowledgement of the social, political and economic changes and of emerging issues and policies; 2) ensuring greater specificity and accountability and tie to funding strategies; 3) tracking programmes and environmental progress; 4) adaptation to new scientific findings; 5) maximisation of opportunities for stakeholder involvement; 6) reexamination of roles and responsibilities of Task Force partners. This Action Plan identifies three goals: coastal goal, in order to reduce the annual discharge of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Gulf of Mexico; within basin goal, in order to restore and protect the waters of the 31 States and Tribal lands within the Mississippi River Basin; quality of life goal, in order to improve the communities and economic conditions across the Mississippi River Basin, in particular the agriculture, fisheries and recreation sectors, through improved public and private land management and a cooperative, incentive-based approach. The Action Plan also focuses on actions to accelerate the reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus and actions to advance the science, track progress and raise awareness of the efforts to address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
Соединенные Штаты Америки · 2008-01-01