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Balancing land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy. [PDF]

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Brock C   +19 more
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Managing forest plantation landscapes for water conservation

Forest Ecology and Management, 2013
Abstract Forest ecosystems play an important role in water conservation yet forest plantations are considered detrimental because of their high water use. The current worldwide trends of reduction in natural forest and expansion of forest plantations increases the need for forest managers to contribute to water conservation, implementing management ...
Silvio F B Ferraz   +2 more
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Conformity and Conservation: Evidence from Home Landscaping and Water Conservation

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021
How do consumers value conformity, and what are the implications for conservation policy? In this article, we study conformity in homeowners’ landscaping choices—which have important consequences for water consumption—for housing parcels throughout a large arid American city.
Jesse Burkhardt   +3 more
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Water Conservation Through Facilitation on Residential Landscapes

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2011
Plants can have positive effects on each other in numerous ways, including protection from harsh environmental conditions. This phenomenon, known as facilitation, occurs in water-stressed environments when shade from larger shrubs protects smaller annuals from harsh sun, enabling them to exist on scarce water. The topic of this paper is
Rhonda Hoenigman   +2 more
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Saving Water With a Landscape Water Conservation Rebate Program

Journal AWWA, 2021
Key TakeawaysIn response to severe drought in the state of California, local, regional, and state water agencies implemented rebate programs to encourage reductions in water use.The Valley Water Landscape Rebate Program encourages residents and businesses to convert high‐water‐use landscape to approved low‐water‐use landscape, and to retrofit existing ...
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