TITLE:
Environmental Flows from Alternate Land Uses in the Delta, Pacific, and the Southeastern States: 1947-2007
AUTHORS:
Charles B. Moss, Andrew Schmitz
KEYWORDS:
Environmental Flows, Information Theory, Complementary Slackness
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Environmental Protection,
Vol.5 No.16,
November
26,
2014
ABSTRACT: Land use
policy involves allocating land between production alternatives to meet society’s
wants and desires. Increase in the affluence in the United States has increased
the demand for environmental flows that could be met from public ownership or
as joint products of private ownerships. The empirical results of this study
indicated that land use patterns remained relatively unchanged between 1947 and
2007. The lack of change suggests that a large part of the demand for
environmental services is being as byproducts of other commercial decisions.