Hydrographic Coordinates in the Waldzell Canon

A Waldzell Forum Essay [in preparation]

Last modified: Fri 3/7/97 1700 PST

Sources

• Bob Lozar's Global Watershed Research page
• Lozar, Robert C. (1992) "Global climatic change management by watershed basin units", Proceedings of the XVII International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Washington, DC.
• Lozar, Robert C.; Ehlschlaeger, C.; Jahn, Paul (1993) "Hydro-environmental zones: The key unit for global change monitoring", Proceedings of the GRASS User Group Conference, National Park Service, Denver, CO, March 1992. Published as Tech Report NPS/HRGISD/NRTR-93/13 August 1993.

Notes

Political boundaries seem to be a rather odd way to divide up the surface of the Earth for the purpose of hierarchically grouping people together who have common concerns deriving from geographical proximity. In the Waldzell Canon, the primary frame of reference should be the planet's hierarchical system of watersheds (aka river basins), not the ephemeral political tesselation existing at some particular moment in human history. The ever-changing, largely arbitrary political boundaries should be related back to the watersheds, not the other way around.