1.State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences,100085,Beijing;2.Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences,100039,Beijing;3.Upper and Middle Reaches Bureau of Yellow River,710021,Xi'an: China
Abstract：The effective watershed management is one of the key measures to tackle the problem of soil erosion and to achieve the sustainable development in the Loess Plateau of China which is an area with the fragile eco-system and suffers the severest soil erosion.The participatory watershed management(PWM) has been extensively used worldwide in natural resource conservation and proved an effective approach to coordinate the rural development and resource conservation.In this paper,the results and impacts of participatory watershed management are analyzed through a case study in Jiajiyu Watershed.The results show that those threaten factors toward the local community development can be identified through the semi-structured interview and problem tree,which also can help us to find an effective approach to figure out different management models and implement the project of the control of soil erosion.The results also reveal that the PWM helps the local rural community to achieve the social and economic development and improve the ecologic quality as well.
2009, Vol. 7 
