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Floodplain influence on the cost of riparian buffers and implications for conservation programs

Journal of soil and water conservation, 2007-01, Vol.62 (1), p.33-39 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2007 INIST-CNRS ;COPYRIGHT 2007 Soil & Water Conservation Society ;COPYRIGHT 2007 Soil & Water Conservation Society ;Copyright Soil and Water Conservation Society Jan/Feb 2007 ;ISSN: 0022-4561 ;EISSN: 1941-3300 ;CODEN: JSWCA3

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Title:
Floodplain influence on the cost of riparian buffers and implications for conservation programs
Author: Frimpong, E.A ; Lee, J.G ; Ross-Davis, A.L
Subjects: Agricultural economics ; agricultural watersheds ; Agronomy. Soil science and plant productions ; Biological and medical sciences ; Conservation ; Conservation of natural resources ; conservation programs ; cost analysis ; Economic aspects ; Environmental aspects ; Environmental protection ; Farming ; Floodplain management ; Floodplains ; forested watersheds ; Forests ; Freshwater ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Indiana ; land values ; Landowners ; Methods ; Natural resource conservation ; Quality management ; Riparian buffers ; River basins ; Soil science
Is Part Of: Journal of soil and water conservation, 2007-01, Vol.62 (1), p.33-39
Description: This study demonstrates an approach to estimating riparian buffer costs based on differences in prices between floodplain and off-floodplain land and the probability that a stream of a given order is located in a floodplain. Applying this approach to the Upper Wabash River Basin in north-central Indiana, we show that riparian buffers are less costly with increasing stream order because of increasing susceptibility of land to flooding and corresponding decrease in land price. The current distribution of forest in the watershed supports this conclusion, showing higher-order streams are buffered more completely compared to lower-order streams. We recommend the following: 1) that greater attention be focused on non-floodplain landowners along lower-order streams who tend to farm to stream banks; 2) that programs such as the Conservation Reserve Program, Environmental Quality Incentives Program, and the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program consider explicitly incorporating flood risk in determining agricultural land values for rental payments; and 3) that large scale riparian restoration projects consider flood risk as a potentially significant component of the opportunity cost of taking riparian land out of agricultural production.
Publisher: Ankeny, IA: Soil and Water Conservation Society
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0022-4561
EISSN: 1941-3300
CODEN: JSWCA3
Source: ProQuest Central

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Floodplain influence on the cost of riparian buffers and implications for conservation programs

2007 INIST-CNRS ;COPYRIGHT 2007 Soil & Water Conservation Society ;COPYRIGHT 2007 Soil & Water Conservation Society ;Copyright Soil and Water Conservation Society Jan/Feb 2007 ;ISSN: 0022-4561 ;EISSN: 1941-3300 ;CODEN: JSWCA3

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