A VSA-Based Strategy for Placing Conservation Buffers in Agricultural Watersheds

Environmental Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-311

  Qiu, Zeyuan ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit cost analysis; Conservation buffers; Landscape planning; Variable source areas; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FLOOD CONTROL; SOILS; WATER QUALITY; WETLANDS;

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

WATERSHEDS;

BUFFER; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BUFFER ZONE; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOOD TIDE; HABITAT QUALITY; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE; POLLUTION; PREDICTION; RECREATION; REVIEW; SOIL; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED; WEATHER; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER POLLUTION;

RIPARIA;

EID: 0345689493     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-2910-0     Document Type: Review

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