AN EVALUTION OF PRIORITIZATION TECHNIQUES FOR AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION IN FREDERICK COUNTY, MD
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2013-09
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Hood College Biology
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Biomedical and Environmental Science
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Abstract
Using three years of application data, this project is an evaluation of prioritization
techniques as applied to an existing agricultural land preservation program in Frederick
County, Maryland. Recent publications have suggested that rank-based or benefittargeting
prioritization systems are inefficient and more costly than alternative
prioritization methods such as discount ranking, cost effectiveness analysis, or linear
programming. This project evaluates alternative methods of prioritization and explores
how using these alternative methods would have changed the total acres preserved as a
result of past easement acquisition cycles in the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation
Foundation (MALPF) Program in Frederick County. The results of the analysis reveal
that of the techniques explored, linear programming consistently outperforms all other
techniques used for the prioritization of land preservation applications.