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Louisiana wetlands require careful management to allow exploitation of non-renewable resources without destroying …
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Wetland mitigation banks are already in existence in the United States, and the number is increasing. To date, most of these banks have been created and operated for mitigation of impacts arising from highway or commercial development and have not been associated with the oil and gas industry....
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's impacts on wetlands and how to manage operations so that impacts can be minimized or eliminated. The objective of the first … assess the floral and faunal communities on existing rights-of-way (ROWs) that pass through numerous types of wetlands across …
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.g., wetlands mitigation banking). The potential for effluent trading in the energy industries and in other sectors would be …
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A new turn in the research agenda of environmental valuation is under way. Rather than treating stated preference (SP) and revealed preference (RP) as competing valuation techniques, analysts have begun to view them as complementary, where the strengths of each approach can be used to provide...
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Human activities have resulted in the loss of about half of the original 221 million acres of wetlands in the …, they encouraged and subsidized the draining and filling of wetlands, the flooding of wetlands behind dams, and the … diversion and alteration of streamflows to riparian wetlands. More recently, federal policies have been directed to conserving …
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Despite wetlands being amongst the Earth’s most productive ecosystems, they have been degraded and lost at an … and improvement of the remaining wetlands. This paper aims to assist policy makers in formulating efficient, effective and … be combined with private use values of wetlands, and weighed against the costs of alternative wetland management …
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Yala wetlands. Descriptive statistics were used to understand the socio-economic characteristics of papyrus harvesters and …
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Ecological functions of wetlands and streams provide valuable services to humansocieties, but conflicting societal … objectives at times place greater value on conversionor destruction than on preservation of wetlands. Therefore, it is imperative …
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Wetlands are highly productive, multifunctional ecosystems, providing a large numberof products and services to mankind … affected by many regulations by law, whichcontribute to a distortion of land prices offering incentives to convert wetlands … in favor ofreestablishing wetlands and simultaneously abating damages from floods are examined inconsideration of …
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