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Salt Management Strategy: Environmental Impacts and Potential Economic Costs and Benefits of Improved Management Practices in Northern Virginia
Stormwater and Aquatic Life: Making the Connection Between Impervious Cover and Aquatic Life Impairments for TMDL Development in Connecticut Streams
Setting River Restoration Priorities: A Review of Approaches and a General Protocol for Identifying and Prioritizing Actions
Urban Erosion and Sediment Control Best Management Practice: Defintion and Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Efficiencies
GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling of Riparian Areas: Implications for Stream Water Quality
A Comparative Assessment of Decision-Support Tools for Ecosystem Services Quantification and Valuation
Optimizing the Riparian Buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, New York
Azzaino, Z., Conrad, J. M., Ferraro, P. J. 2002. Optimizing the Riparian Buffer: Harold Brook in the Skaneateles Lake Watershed, New York. Land Economics. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. Volume 78, Number 4. 501-514
Model, Riparian buffer, Water quality, Riparian, Decision-making, Optimization
This paper demonstrates how land acquisition for riparian buffer creation can be approached as an issue of binary optimization; it applies the resulting decision-making model to a case study of Harold Brook in New York.