CEAP Bibliographies Available
Online By Len
Carey
October 6, 2004
WASHINGTON, October 6—A series of
bibliographies
made available on the World Wide Web by the U.S.
Department of Agriculture provide a comprehensive review of the current
literature covering conservation programs, including the research needed to
improve practices.
The bibliographies were prepared in support of the USDA
Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) by the Water
Quality Information Center of USDA’s National Agricultural Library.
Through CEAP, USDA is studying the environmental benefits of
conservation practices implemented through various USDA conservation programs.
CEAP will evaluate conservation practices and management systems related to
nutrient, manure, and pest management; buffer systems, tillage; irrigation and
drainage practices; wetland protection and restoration; and wildlife habitat
establishment.
The bibliographies offer more than 2,700 citations, with
abstracts where available, and with URLs when the documents are freely
available online. The bibliographies are available in four volumes, all on the
Web:
Environmental Effects of
U. S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Programs is a guide to
literature examining environmental effects of USDA conservation
programs--information useful for assessing on-the-ground results of
conservation programs from various environmental perspectives.
Implementing Agricultural
Conservation Practices: Barriers and Incentives is a guide to recent
literature examining agricultural producers' views of conservation programs and
practices--information helpful in developing conservation programs and
practices to fit the needs of agricultural producers.
Data and
Modeling for Environmental Credit Trading is a guide to literature on the
data and modeling requirements for environmental credit trading, to help
interested people become informed about the current state of data acquisition
and use of simulation models in environmental credit trading.
Agricultural Conservation
Practices and Related Issues: Reviews of the State of the Art and Research
Needs is a guide to the recent literature covering agricultural
conservation practices and associated issues, focusing on where information has
been combined and synthesized from many sources.
The National Agricultural
Library, in Beltsville, Md., is part of the
Agricultural Research Service.
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