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The Economics of Wetlands Preservation in Virginia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Leonard A. Shabman ,
Sandra S. Batie  and
Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno
Leonard A. Shabman
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Sandra S. Batie
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Carl C. Mabbs-Zeno
Affiliation:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
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Virginia and other northeastern coastal states have adopted legislation in an effort to diminish the rate at which coastal wetlands are being “reclaimed” for development as residential, commercial, or industrial sites. In all these states, the arguments for public protection of natural wetlands were based upon a growing, but still incomplete, body of scientific evidence linking wetlands to any array of non-market ecological services such as waste assimilation and provision of fish and wildlife habitat.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 101 - 115
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

This paper was based upon a larger study which was funded as part of an Office of Sea Grant grant (04-6-158-44086) and (04-7-158-44086), NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. The grant title is “Alternative Management Strategies for Virginia's Coastal Wetlands.” The U.S. Government is authorized to produce and distribute reprints for government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation that may appear herein.

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