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Can conservation covenants help sustain nature and livelihoods? Factors associated with conservation covenant adopters in Australia

open access: yesPeople and Nature
Biodiversity conservation on privately owned land often relies on the actions of individual landholders, such as participating in conservation covenant programs.
Carla L. Archibald   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grasslands, wetlands, and agriculture: the fate of land expiring from the Conservation Reserve Program in the Midwestern United States

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2016
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest agricultural land-retirement program in the United States, providing many environmental benefits, including wildlife habitat and improved air, water, and soil quality.
Philip E Morefield   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation Easement Amendments: A Landowner\u27s Guide

open access: yes, 2022
Conservation easements are designed to protect land in perpetuity, but some conservation easements can be changed, or amended, under certain circumstances.
Waters, Andrew
core   +1 more source

Internalizing Externalities when there are Significant Private Non-Market Rents [PDF]

open access: yes
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Bastian, Christopher T.   +2 more
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The Agricultural Act of 2014: conservation easement programs, the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP)

open access: yes, 2014
The ACEP is a new program for 2014 that serves as a consolidation of the all previous major easement programs. Despite the amount of change the new Farm Bill brings to conservation easement programs, there should be minimal disturbance to participants of GRP, WRP and FPP.
Villar, Daniel, author   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Applying Optimization and the Analytic Hierarchy Process to Enhance Agricultural Preservation Strategies in the State of Delaware [PDF]

open access: yes
Using agricultural preservation priorities derived from an analytical hierarchy process by 23 conservation experts from 18 agencies in the state of Delaware, this research uses weighted benefit measures to evaluate the historical success of Delaware’s ...
Messer, Kent D., Allen, William L., III
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Rain generated surface runoff water quality and quantity monitoring of bottomland hardwood forests: A review of designs, challenges, and research needs

open access: yesAgrosystems, Geosciences & Environment
The Mississippi River Basin has been extensively altered with levees, channelization, and agricultural land conversion. Much of the disturbed land was historically bottomland hardwood forests (BHF) and wetlands.
Leighia Eggett   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of Floodplain Forest Structure on Overbank Sediment and Phosphorus Deposition in an Agriculturally Dominated Watershed in Iowa, USA

open access: yesHydrology
This study sought to estimate the potential impact of floodplain forest vegetation on sediment and phosphorus loading along the Iowa River in Iowa, USA.
Sierra Geer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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