Read the full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50012 DOI: 10.4236/jep.2014.512117 Author(s) Lois Wright Morton, Kenneth R. Olson ABSTRACT Public and private levee systems may not be robust enough to address flooding risk to agriculture under changing climate conditions. Of concern are levee protected riverine bottomlands with intensive agricultural uses and diminished wetland systems that give resilience to floodplain hydrologic functions. eww140926gjr In the United States natural and induced levee breaching has caused soil damage, loss of agricultural productivity, and public tension among agricultural landowners, urban residents, and environmental interests. Risk management and adaptive capacity of this humannatural system could be improved by assessments of 1) soil damage and 2) stakeholder values, fears, and knowledge about the riverine bottomland agroecosystem. KEYWORDS Levee Breaching, Soil Damage, Climate Change, Agriculture, Stakeholder Values, Agroecosystem, Flooding
