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National Academies (2012) Disaster Resilience Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters. Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

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• TITLE: Addressing Soil Degradation and Flood Risk Decision Making in Levee Protected Agricultural Lands under Increasingly Variable Climate Conditions

  AUTHORS: Lois Wright Morton, Kenneth R. Olson

  KEYWORDS: Levee Breaching, Soil Damage, Climate Change, Agriculture, Stakeholder Values, Agroecosystem, Flooding

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol.5 No.12, September 24, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Public and private levee systems may not be robust enough to address flooding risk to agriculture under changing climate conditions. Of concern are levee protected riverine bottomlands with intensive agricultural uses and diminished wetland systems that give resilience to floodplain hydrologic functions. In the United States natural and induced levee breaching has caused soil damage, loss of agricultural productivity, and public tension among agricultural landowners, urban residents, and environmental interests. Risk management and adaptive capacity of this humannatural system could be improved by assessments of 1) soil damage and 2) stakeholder values, fears, and knowledge about the riverine bottomland agroecosystem.