Optimal policies for aggregate recycling from decommissioned forest roads

Environmental Management

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 297-309

  Thompson, Matthew ^a   Sessions, John ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate recycling; Aquatic habitat; Forest roads; Mixed integer programming; Optimization; Road decommissioning; Transportation planning; Watershed restoration

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE RECYCLING; AQUATIC HABITAT; AQUATIC HABITATS; COST SAVINGS; CRUSHED ROCK; ECONOMIC INCENTIVES; ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES; FOREST ROADS; MAINTENANCE COSTS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MIXED INTEGERS; OPTIMAL LEVELS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMIZATION; PRIVATE LANDS; PROCUREMENT COSTS; REAL-WORLD; REDUCED COSTS; ROAD DECOMMISSIONING; ROAD NETWORKS; ROAD SURFACES; SALMONID HABITAT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; WATERSHED RESTORATION; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

AGGLOMERATION; AGGREGATES; DECOMMISSIONING (NUCLEAR REACTORS); DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAND USE; MAINTENANCE; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; OCEAN HABITATS; RECYCLING; SULFATE MINERALS;

ROADS AND STREETS;

AGGREGATE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECOMMISSIONING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INCENTIVE; OPTIMIZATION; RECYCLING; ROAD; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; POLICY; RECYCLING;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; TRANSPORTATION; TREES; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

SALMONIDAE;

EID: 49849085598     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-008-9136-0     Document Type: Article

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