Research Guides: Cache River, Illinois: Watershed Science and Policy: Economics

Books, Theses, & Dissertations

Brown, B. E. (1981). Toward an understanding of the values, goals, and attitudes of southern Illinois farmers. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 114 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. AGR 1981 B877

Ferguson, J. E. (1999). Assessing soil loss restrictions on farm practices in the Cache River watershed of southern Illinois: A representative farm approach. Master’s thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 136 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. AGR 1999 F352a

Gebhardt, D. D. (1986). Acceptability of easements by landowners: a study of the Cache River private landowners and their relationship with the state of Illinois. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 64 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. GE 1986 G293

Gillman, K. R. (1996). The political ecology of conservation policy in cornbelt agriculture. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 383 p. Print Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. GE 1996d G482

Keeney, R. (2002). An analysis of riparian ecosystem services as measured by the CRP EBI in the Cache River watershed. Master’s thesis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 174 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: AGR 2002 K26a

Kozak, J. P. (2009). The geography of ecosystem service value: The case of the Des Plains and the Cache River Wetlands, Illinois. Master's thesis, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 90 p. Print Location: Morris Library, 1st Floor, Special Collections Research Center Call Number: Thesis 2009 [Note: Non-circulating, requires 72 hours notice for retrieval.]

Loftus, T. T. (2000). Predicting land-use: The CRP and environmental resources in a southern Illinois watershed. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Ruhl, J. B., Kraft, S. E., & Lant, C. L. (2007). Ecosystem services from an agricultural watershed: the case of Big Creek. In: The law and policy of ecosystem services (pp. 205-212). Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. [Morris Library Location: 5th Floor, Call Number: HC79.E5 R84 2007]

Shcherbaniuk, M. K. (2006). Modeling land use and cover change: Predicting re-enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program using GIS and data mining procedures. Ph.D. Dissertation, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 236 p. Print Location: Morris Library, 1^st Floor, Special Collections Research Center. Call Number: Diss. ERP 2006 S538m

Soman, S. (2008). Trade offs between environmental benefits provided by riparian buffers and agricultural production---implication for the Big Creek watershed. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 275 p. Print Location: Morris Library, Special Collections Research Center Call Number: Diss. 2008 [Requires 72 hours notice. Non-circulating.]

White, E. M. (2001). The effects of timber mill location, production, and procurement influence on sawlog exportation from Illinois. Master’s thesis, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 84 p. Location: Morris Library, 4th Floor, Theses & Dissertations. Call Number: q. FO 2001 W582e

Woodruff, K. J. (1997). Land acquisition in the welfare state: The case of the Cache River Bioreserve. Research paper, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. 56 p. Location: Morris Library, 1st Floor, Special Collections Research Center. Call Number: 97-WOOD 443523R [Note: non-circulating, requires 72 hours notice for retrieval]

Articles, Papers, & Reports

Adams, J., Beaulieu, J., Bennett, D., Duram, L., Kraft, S., Lant, C., Loftus, T.,http://www.lib.siu.edu/ Nicklow, J., & Ruhl, J. B. (2002). Ecological restoration in multiple-owner watersheds: The case of the Cache River in Illinois--social and economic issues. In A. M. Strawn, (Ed.) 2001 Governor's Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System: The Illinois River: Partnerships for progress, restoration, and preservation: eighth biennial conference, October 24, 2001, Holiday Inn City Centre, Peoria, Illinois: Proceedings (pp. 161-175). Special Report No. 27. Urbana, IL: Illinois Water Resources Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [Note: Starts on print page 161, but the online reader page is 174. Contains an extensive description of the participant interviews and focus group process.]
Beaulieu, J., Bennett, D., Kraft, S., Sengupta, R. (1998, August). Ecological-economic modeling on a watershed basis: A case study of the Cache River of Southern Illinois. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Salt Lake City, UT. Retrieved from http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/21019/1/spbeau01.pdf
Beck, R. J., & Herr, W. M. (1990). Income inequality among Illinois counties: Contentment and despair. Illinois Business Review, 47(4) 8-12. Location: McLafferty Annex. Call Number: Shelved by Journal Title.
Beck, R. J., Kraft, S. E., & Burde, J. H. (1999). Is the conversion of land from agricultural production to a bioreserve boon or bane for economic development? The Cache River Bioreserve as a case study. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 54(1), 394-401. Retrieved from http://www.farmlandinfo.org/documents/29522/FIRST_QUARTER_1999.pdf
Bekele, E. G., & Nicklow, J. W. (2005). Multiobjective management of ecosystem services by integrative watershed modeling and evolutionary algorithms. Water Resources Research, 41(10), w10406 (10 p.). doi:10.1029/2005WR004090 Location: Morris Library, Third Floor, Journals. Call Number: Shelved by Journal Title. [Big Creek]
Burde, J., Kraft, S., & Beck, R. (1998). Partnerships in wetland restoration. Parks & Recreation, 33(2), 34-44. Print Copy Location: Morris Library, 3^rd Floor, Journals Call Number: Shelved by journal title.
Caudill, J. (2008, May). The economic impacts of restoration and conservation-related expenditures: The Cache River Watershed in Southern Illinois.
Kraft, S. E., Roth, P. L., & Thielen, A. C. (1989). Soil conservation as a goal among farmers: Results of a survey and cluster analysis. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 44(5), 487- 490.
Lant, C. L., Kraft S. E., Beaulieu, J., Bennett, D., Loftus, T., and Nicklow, D. (2005). Using GIS-based ecological-economic modeling to evaluate policies affecting agricultural watersheds. Ecological Economics, 55(4), 467-484. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2004.12.006
Lant, C. L., Loftus, T., Kraft, S. & Bennett, D. (2001). Land use dynamics in a Southern Illinois watershed. Environmental Management, 28(3), 325-340. doi:10.1007/s002672426
Loftus, T. T., & Kraft, S. E. (2003). Enrolling conservation buffers in the CRP. Land Use Policy, 20(1), 73-84. doi:10.1016/S0264-8377(02)00046-7
Muir, D. P, Hite, R. L., King, M. M., Matson, M. R. (1995). An intensive survey of the Cache River Basin, summer 1992. Springfield, IL: State of Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Water, Planning Section. IEPA/WPC/95-013 Location: McLafferty Annex Call Number: 363.739409773 I29in 1995.
Sengupta, R., Bennett, D. A., Beaulieu, J., & Kraft, S. E. (2000). Evaluating the impact of policy-induced land use management practices on non-point source pollution using a spatial decision support system. Water International, 25(3), 437-445. Location: Morris Library, 3rd Floor, Journals. Call Number: Shelved by Journal Title. [Big Creek]
Sengupta, R., Lant, C., Kraft, S., Beaulieu, J., Peterson, W., & Loftus, T. (2005). Modeling enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program by using agents within spatial decision support systems: An example from southern Illinois. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 32(6), 821-824. doi:10.1068/b31193
Soman, S., Misgna, G., Kraft, S., Lant, C., & Beaulieu, J. (2008). An agent-based model of multifunctional agricultural landscape using genetic algorithms. Paper presented at the Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, July 27-29, 2008. Retrieved from http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/6142/2/463819.pdf
White, E. M., & Carver, A. D. (2003). Diversifying farm income through woodlot management: Characteristics of farmer-owned NIPF land in Illinois. In: J. W. Sambeek, J. O. Dawson, F. Ponder, Jr., E. F. Loewenstein, J. S. Fralish, 13th central hardwoods forest conference. St. Paul, MN: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station, (pp.382-389). General Technical Report NC-234. Retrieved from http://nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/ch/ch13/CHvolume13page382.pdf
White, E. M., & Carver, A. D. (2004). Modeling timber mill procurement influence effects on interstate sawlog exportation. Forest Policy and Economics, 6(6), 529-537. doi:10.1016/S1389-9341(03)00002-9
Yadav, V., & Malanson, G. (2008). Spatially explicit historical land use land cover and soil organic carbon transformations in Southern Illinois. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 123(4), 280-292. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2007.07.010 [Big Creek, Pulaski County, Union County, Hydrologic Unit Code no. 07140108]
Yadav, V., & Malanson, G. P. (2009). Modeling impacts of erosion and deposition on soil organic carbon in the Big Creek Basin of southern Illinois. Geomorphology,106(3-4), 304-314. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.11.011
Yadav, V., Malanson, G.P., Bekele, E., & Lant, C. (2009). Modeling watershed-scale sequestration of soil organic carbon for carbon credit programs. Applied Geography, 29(4), 488-500. doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2009.04.001 [Big Creek]

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