Coastal Ecosystems and Agricultural Land Use: New Challenges on California's Central Coast

摘要: This article uses the Central Coast region of California as a case study to examine challenges protecting coastal ecosystems near areas intensive agricultural production. Coastal water quality and biodiversity are greatly impacted by regional land use. Agricultural use can have significant impacts on through erosion runoff chemicals. While is center for production, it also home largest marine sanctuary in United States. combination has resulted efforts from government agencies conservation organizations reduce pollution associated with agriculture. Efforts focused education incentives, but recently facing increasing stemming new standards created produce industry response food safety concerns. Personal interviews crop growers were used explore these better understand range po...