Beyond the ARK: A New Approach to U.S. Floodplain Management

Kusler, Jon A.; Larson, Larry

doi:10.1080/00139157.1993.9929099

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“…The largest decline of any wetland category was for forested freshwater wetlands, primarily riverine flood plains. Originally, flood plains covered 7%, or about 700 000 km 2 , of all land in the USA (Kusler & Larson 1993). Nowadays, pristine flood plains are primarily limited to Alaska, where about 50% of the extant flood plains occur.…”

Section: Drainage System/geographic Area Area (Km 2 ) a Major Flood Pmentioning

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Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends

2002

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Natural flood plains are among the most biologically productive and diverse ecosystems on earth. Globally, riverine flood plains cover > 2 × 106 km2, however, they are among the most threatened ecosystems. Floodplain degradation is closely linked to the rapid decline in freshwater biodiversity; the main reasons for the latter being habitat alteration, flow and flood control, species invasion and pollution. In Europe and North America, up to 90% of flood plains are already ‘cultivated’ and therefore functionally extinct. In the developing world, the remaining natural flood plains are disappearing at an accelerating rate, primarily as a result of changing hydrology. Up to the 2025 time horizon, the future increase of human population will lead to further degradation of riparian areas, intensification of the hydrological cycle, increase in the discharge of pollutants, and further proliferation of species invasions. In the near future, the most threatened flood plains will be those in south-east Asia, Sahelian Africa and North America. There is an urgent need to preserve existing, intact flood plain rivers as strategic global resources and to begin to restore hydrologic dynamics, sediment transport and riparian vegetation to those rivers that retain some level of ecological integrity. Otherwise, dramatic extinctions of aquatic and riparian species and of ecosystem services are faced within the next few decades.

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Section: Drainage System/geographic Area Area (Km 2 ) a Major Flood Pmentioning

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Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends

2002

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“…Beginning with the seminal Life and Death of the Salt Marsh (Teal & Teal, 1969), many publications and symposia have promoted public awareness of coastal wetlands as highly productive and diverse ecosystems, rather than merely as swamps and wastelands. While wetlands and natural hazards have seldom been viewed interactively, the recent report of the Federal Interagency Floodplain Management Task Force (1992) urges that the two objectives should be more closely linked (Kusler & Larson, 1993).…”

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Evolution of coastal hazards policies in the United States

Platt

1994

Coastal Management

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“…Floodplain reconnection illustrates many of the issues that must be addressed if widespread adoption of PES schemes is to be successful (Tables 1 and 2). There are approximately 72 million hectares of floodplains in the US (Kusler and Larson 1993); these areas support numerous ES, including C sequestration, water quality, habitat, and flood control (Tockner and Stanford 2002; Zedler and Kercher 2005). In recent decades, floods and hurricanes have underscored the importance of floodplains for floodwater storage and conveyance (Pinter 2005; Opperman et al .…”

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How to sell ecosystem services: a guide for designing new markets

Banerjee

Secchi

Fargione

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Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Payments for ecosystem services (PES) can improve environmental quality by aligning the incentives of individual landowners with societal interests in providing valuable ecosystem services such as carbon storage, water quality, flood control, and wildlife habitat. However, for this potential to be realized, many institutional details and technical challenges must be addressed. In this review, we discuss six critical issues for creating effective PES markets: using the appropriate type of market institution, defining suitable spatial and temporal scales for the market, promoting additionality (avoiding payments for services that would have been provided even in the absence of payments) so that payments result in increased services, offering incentives for projects that generate multiple ecosystem services, considering practice‐based versus performance‐based payments, and eliminating opportunities for strategic behavior aimed at “gaming the system”. We illustrate these issues with an example of how PES could be applied to floodplain restoration.

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Beyond the ARK: A New Approach to U.S. Floodplain Management

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Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends

Riverine flood plains: present state and future trends

Evolution of coastal hazards policies in the United States

How to sell ecosystem services: a guide for designing new markets

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