The scenic beauty of shelterbelts on the Great Plains

Cook, Philip S.; Cable, Ted T.

doi:10.1016/0169-2046(94)00171-x

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“…An advantage of the SBE procedure is that it provides measures of landscape beauty independent of the observer's scale of judgement. This method has been applied widely for the quantitative assessment of scenic quality (e.g., Arthur, 1977;Anderson, 1981;Schroeder and Daniel, 1981;Brown and Daniel, 1986;Jensen, 1993;Cook and Cable, 1995). However, it has been criticized because of the assumption of a normal distribution (Hull et al, 1984).…”

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“…In forestry, for example, the importance of outputs connected to the amenity of environment is constantly increasing (Pukkala, 1988). Innumerable scienti®c studies have assessed the scenic beauty, primarily, of forested regions and the effect of forest management on the appearance of forests (e.g., Savolainen and Kelloma Èki, 1981;Schroeder and Daniel, 1981;Brown and Daniel, studies have focused on the scenic beauty of agricultural landscapes (e.g., Ronningen, l993;Cook and Cable, 1995;Tahvanainen et al, 1996). There is a growing awareness that agriculture produces, usually as external effects of agricultural production, also environmental goods, like scenic beauty.…”

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Measures of the EU Agri-Environmental Protection Scheme (GAEPS) and their impacts on the visual acceptability of Finnish agricultural landscapes

Tahvanainen

Ihalainen

Hietala³

et al. 2002

Journal of Environmental Management

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measures of the EU Agri-Environmental Protection Scheme (GAEPS) and their impacts on the visual acceptability of Finnish agricultural landscapes

Tahvanainen

Ihalainen

Hietala³

et al. 2002

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…In the United States, for instance, the Great Plains' shelterbelts that reduced soil erosion have been in favor of making the lands available for cultivation and adding to the scenic beauty of the Great Plains landscape (Cook and Cable, 1995;McClure, 1998). In Israel, due to large-scale afforestation programs, the process of desertification did not profoundly affect the Negev region (Portnov and Safriel, 2004).…”

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“…Thus, many countries have instituted anti-desertification programs at a national level, such as Iran's National Action Program to Combat Desertification (Amiraslani and Dragovich, 2011), the Country Pilot Partnership for Integrated Sustainable Land Management in Namibia (Akhtar-schuster et al, 2011), the 22nd Country Master Plan in Israel (Portnov and Safriel, 2004), and the Great Plains Shelterbelt project in the United States. Of these, perhaps the most famous is the Great Plains Shelterbelt, which stretches over 29,000 km in a 160 km-wide zone from Canada to the Brazos River in the eastern Great Plains (Cook and Cable, 1995). However, the outcomes following the implementation of these programs have spurred intense international debate (McTainsh et al, 2011), with many observers concluding that they have been ineffective as desertification controls worldwide (Glenna et al, 1998).…”

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Does the Green Great Wall effectively decrease dust storm intensity in China? A study based on NOAA NDVI and weather station data

Tan

2015

Land Use Policy

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a b s t r a c tChina launched its "Green Great Wall" (GGW) program in 1978. However, the effects of this program are subject to intense debate. This study compares changes in the vegetation index in regions where the GGW program has been implemented with those where it has not. Subsequently, a definition to measure dust storm intensity (DSI) was proposed that better calculates the intensity of dust events; it considers the frequency, visibility, and duration of dust events. The results show that in the GGW region, vegetation has greatly improved, while it varied dramatically outside the GGW region. In the mid-1980s, DSI decreased significantly, different from the changes in dust storm frequency in the study region. By discounting the effects of climatic change and human pressures, the results show that the GGW program greatly improved the vegetation index and effectively reduced DSI in northern China.

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“…This recreation in shelterbelts can have important economic impacts . Moreover, shelterbelts have been shown to have a positive influence on landscape aesthetics (Cook and Cable 1995).…”

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Impacts of Sand Storms/Dust Storms on Agriculture

Sivakumar¹

Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture

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The drylands of the world are affected by moderate to severe land degradation from wind erosion and there is evidence that the frequency of sand storms/dust storms in increasing. Human induced change is by far the most significant factor in the alarming increase of sand storms in some regions. The definition of sand storms and dust storms were presented and the classifications currently in use were discussed. The occurrence of wind erosion at any place is a function of weather events interacting with soil and land management through its effects on soil structure, tilth and vegetation cover. The mechanics of sand and dust storms and their spatial and temporal distribution was described. The impacts of sand and dust storms were described in terms of crop damage, soil productivity losses, economic losses, mass migration, health impacts, and impacts on climate. Not all the impacts are negative and the positive impacts of sand and dust storms were described. Measures to combat sand and dust storms include reduction of the impact of wind speed through the use of live wind breaks or shelterbelts; protection of the loose soil particles through the use of crop residues or plastic sheets or chemical adhesives; and increasing the cohesion of soil particles by mechanical tillage operations or soil mulching. Future strategies for reducing the impacts of sand storms and dust storms must be based on communitybased approaches that integrate effective crop and land management strategies as well as policy interventions to promote more effective soil conservation measures at the national and regional scales.

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The scenic beauty of shelterbelts on the Great Plains

Cited by 44 publications

References 8 publications

Measures of the EU Agri-Environmental Protection Scheme (GAEPS) and their impacts on the visual acceptability of Finnish agricultural landscapes

Measures of the EU Agri-Environmental Protection Scheme (GAEPS) and their impacts on the visual acceptability of Finnish agricultural landscapes

Does the Green Great Wall effectively decrease dust storm intensity in China? A study based on NOAA NDVI and weather station data

Impacts of Sand Storms/Dust Storms on Agriculture

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