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Forward-looking farmers owning multiple potential wetland restoration sites: implications for efficient restoration

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  • Svetlana Schroder (Kushch)

    (University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences)

  • Zhengxin Lang

    (University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences)

  • Sergey Rabotyagov

    (University of Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences)

Abstract

Wetland restoration can increase the provision of multiple non-market ecosystem services. Environmental and socio-economic factors need to be accounted for when land is withdrawn from agriculture and wetlands are restored. We build multi-objective optimization models to provide decision support for wetland restoration in the Le Sueur river watershed in Southern Minnesota. We integrate environmental objectives of sediment reduction and habitat protection with socio-economic factors associated with the overlap of private land with potential wetland restoration sites in the watershed and the costs representing forward-looking farmers voluntarily taking land out of agricultural production in favor of wetland restoration. Our results demonstrate that the inclusion of these factors early on in the restoration planning process affects both the total costs of the restoration project and the spatial distribution of optimally selected wetland restoration sites.

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  • Svetlana Schroder (Kushch) & Zhengxin Lang & Sergey Rabotyagov, 2018. "Forward-looking farmers owning multiple potential wetland restoration sites: implications for efficient restoration," Environmental Management, Springer, vol. 61(4), pages 577-596, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envman:v:61:y:2018:i:4:d:10.1007_s00267-018-1002-0
    DOI: 10.1007/s00267-018-1002-0
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