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Scenario Analysis of Economy-Ecology Interactions in the Hudson River Basin

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Abstract

Our primary goal is to develop an integrated, quantitative assessment tool evaluating how human economic activities influence spatial patterns of urbanization, and how land-use change resulting from urbanization affects stream water quality and aquatic ecosystem health. Here we present a prototype of a holistic assessment tool composed of three "building blocks" simulating the social and economic structures, spatial pattern of urbanization, and watershed health as determined by various metrics. The assessment tool is applied to Dutchess County, New York and two of its largest watersheds, Wappinger and Fishkill Creek watersheds, demonstrating how an explicit link can be established between human economic activities and ecosystem health through changes in land use.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEcological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management
EditorsJon Erickson, Frank Messner, Irene Ring
Pages97-111
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007

Publication series

NameAdvances in the Economics of Environmental Resources
Volume7

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