Cultural Eutrophication Impacts on New River in Northern Belize: A Community Capitals Assessment
by
Kristin Drexler
and
Ed Boles
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Abstract
Watershed health and integrity are essential to human and ecosystem health and well-being. New River watershed communities in northern Belize, Central America are vulnerable to annual ‘cultural eutrophication’ - natural eutrophication exacerbated by human activity. Human-caused pollution from agriculture, septic effluent, and industrial drainage, in combination with extended drought and the slow flow of New River, has caused more frequent and prolonged periods of eutrophication. In this qualitat [...]