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An Application of Mathematical Programming to Floodplain Land use Planning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Joseph Smiarowski ,
Cleve Willis  and
John Foster
Joseph Smiarowski
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Massachusetts
Cleve Willis
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Massachusetts
John Foster
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Massachusetts
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The motivation of this study is to provide and solve a decision model for land use planning for an existing regional situation. The chosen framework views the task of floodplain management as a constrained optimization problem capable of solution by standard mathematical programming techniques. The framework is sufficiently flexible to permit incorporation of, in addition to floodplain zoning, such non-structural flood control measures as flood proofing, insurance, and flood warning systems. Further, the framework can be modeled so as to include political restraints and a broad range of socially desirable goals. In a larger regional context, the framework permits the internalization of the value of the externality commonly associated with development of floodplain lands.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , October 1974 , pp. 217 - 228
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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The research leading to this paper was funded by the Water Resources Research Center, Project WR B-028.

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