$7.8 Billion for Everglades Restoration: Why Do Environmentalists Look So Worried?

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 24 Số 6 - Trang 541-569 - 2003
Clarke, Alice L.1, Dalrymple, George H.2
1Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International University, Miami
2USA

Tóm tắt

The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, enacted in 2000, is a $7.8 billion federal/state investment in restoring the Florida Everglades ecosystem. The plan is a negotiated compromise between divergent interests in south Florida and promises to provide water and flood control for urban and agricultural users while maintaining a priority commitment to the natural system when allocating water “produced” by the 30-year project. The environmental community calls for independent scientific review of un-tested technologies, early and substantial hydrologic benefits to the remaining Everglades, including Everglades National Park, and strong programmatic regulations of the federal project to ensure that ecological restoration remains its primary purpose in spite of inherently conflicting interests at the state and local level.

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