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HRISTOPHER LANT

PAPERS & POSTERS : ACADEMIC MEETINGS

Lant, C.L., 2007. Socially relevant research in Geography at SIU: Virtual Watershed AAG Westlakes Conference, Champaign, IL.

Lant, C.L., 2007. The Law and Policy of Ecosystem Services. AAG Westlakes Conference, Champaign, IL. AAG Westlakes Conference, Champaign, IL.

Mubako, S. and C.L. Lant. Water requirement of corn-based ethanol. AAG Westlakes Conference, Champaign, IL.

Heine, R. and C.L. Lant. Spatial and temporal patterns of stream channel incision in the loess region of the Missouri River. AAG Westlakes Conference, Champaign, IL.

Lant C.L., 2007. Virtual Watershed: Agricultural Landscape Evolution in an Adaptive Management Framework,” Invited Plenary Speaker March 26, 2007 at “The Future of Water Use in Agriculture” Fourth Annual Water Law, Policy and Science Conference, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Lant, C.L. 2007. “Ecosystem Services in U.S. Environmental Policy,” invited speaker at the University of Delaware Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. March 8, 2007.

Lant, C.L. and R. Heine, 2005. A model of stream channel incision, Missouri River tributaries in Nebraska and Iowa. UCOWR/NIWR Annual Meeting, Portland, ME, July 12-14.

Lant C.L., 2005. Water Resources Sustainability: An Ecological Economics Perspective,” Invited Plenary speaker at Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America – North Central Region and the Minnesota Groundwater Association, Minneapolis, MN May 20-22.

Nicklow, J.W., Lant, C.L., Kraft, S.E., and Bekele, E.G. (2005). “Virtual watershed: Steps towards cost-effective generation of ecosystem services in rural watersheds.” The XII World Water Congress, IWRA, New Delhi, November 22-25.

Bekele, E.G., Nicklow, J.W., Lant, C.L., and Kraft, S.E. (2005). “A decision support system for watershed-scale management of ecosystem services using evolutionary algorithms.” Watersheds 2005, ASCE, Williamsburg, VA, July 19-22.

Lant, C.L., 2005. “Virtual Watershed: Agricultural Landscape Evolution in an Adaptive Management Framework,” Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April.

Lant C.L., 2004. Water Resources Sustainability: An Ecological Economics Perspective,” Invited Plenary speaker at the Annual Meeting of the National Groundwater Association, Las Vegas, NV, December 10-12.

Lant C.L. and R.A. Heine, 2004. Development and Comparison of Approaches for Automated Extraction of Stream Channel Networks. Applied Geography Conference, St. Louis, MO.

Kraft,  Steven E. C,L. Lant, Leslie Duram, Jane Adams, Bruce Hall,  Javna Klauser, Timothy Loftus, B. Ruhl 2004.  Watershed Planning and Legitimacy: Is Legitimacy relevant for the Watershed Planning Process? Selected Paper presented at 2004 International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Keysone, CO. June 2004

Kraft , Steven E., C.L. Lant, Leslie Duram,  Jane Adams, Timothy Loftus, J. B. Ruhl, Bruce Hall, and Jayna Klauser. 2004  "Legitimacy and Watershed Planning: Theory, Economics, and Empirical Findings " Selected paper presented at the 8th Biennial Scientific Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, Montreal, Canada July 11-14, 2004.

Kraft , Steven E., C.L. Lant, Leslie Duram,  Jane Adams, Timothy Loftus, J. B. Ruhl, Bruce Hall, and Jayna Klauser. 2004  “Watershed planning: Acceptability to residents of alternative structures of planning committees,” Selected Paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meetings of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, St. Paul, MN, July 2004

Lant, C.L., S.E. Kraft, J. Beaulieu, D. Bennett, T. Loftus, J. Nicklow, 2004. Using GIS-Based Ecological-Economic Modeling to Evaluate Policies Affecting Agricultural Watersheds. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA.

Kraft, Steven, Christopher Lant, Timothy Loftus, and Keith Gillman. 2003. “Why Landowners Participate in CRP, and Other Federal Conservation Programs: Insights from Recent Surveys,” Invited Paper presented to Compensating Landowners for Conserving Agricultural Land: Papers from a California Conference, Sacramento, CA, Sponsored by the University of California Agricultural Issues Center.

Lant, C.L., 2003. Defining sustainability as it applies to water resources: An ecological economics view. Annual Meeting of the Universities Council on Water Resources, National Institutes of Water Resources and Environmental and Water Research Institute, Washington. DC, 7/30/03 – 8/1/-03.

Kraft, Steven, Jane Adams, Jeff Beaulieu, Chris Lant, Dave Bennett, Leslie Duram, John  Nicklow, J.B. Ruhl, and  Tim Loftus . 2002. “Cache River Watershed: Research Review--USDA/NSF/EPA Water and Watersheds Project, The Nature Conservancy, Illinois C-FAR” presentation to the Conservation Planning Staff, Illinois Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, 16 Dec. 2002. Peoria, IL

Kraft, Steven E., Jane Adams, Leslie Duram, Chris Lant, J.B. Ruhl, and Tim Loftus. 2002.  “Searching for Legitimacy in Watershed Planning: the Case of the Cache River, Illinois,” paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Bloomington, IN, June 2002.

Adams, Jane, Jeff Bealieu, David Bennett, Leslie Duram, Steven Kraft, Chris Lant, Timothy Loftus, John Nicklow, and J.B. Ruhl. 2002.  “Planning in Watersheds Dominated by Private Multiple-Owners: Integrating Socio-Economic-Political, Agricultural, and Hydrological Factors” paper presented at the 9th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Bloomington, IN, June 2002.

Kraft, S., C. Lant, J. Beaulieu, L. Duram, J. Ruhl, D. Bennett, J. Adams, J. Nicklow, and T. Loftus. 2002. “ Planning in Multiple-Ownership Watersheds: Social, Agricultural, and Hydrological Factors,” selected paper presented at the annual meetings of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Indianapolis, IN July 2002.

Kraft, Steven, Jane Adams, Leslie Duram, Christopher Lant, J.B. Ruhl, and Timothy Loftus. 2002. “Legitimacy in watershed planning: Insights from the Cache River, Illinois” selected paper The Changing Faces of Conservation and Agriculture–the Future or Working Lands, Agriculture in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, a Conference Sponsored by the MidWestern Section of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Oct. 2002, Moline, Illinois.

Lant, C.L. T. Loftus, S.E. Kraft, D.A. Bennett, 2002. “Land-Use Dynamics in a Southern Illinois Watershed.” UCOWR/EWRI Joint Conference on Integrated Trans-Boundary Water Management, Traverse City, MI, July 23-26.

Loftus, T., S. Kraft, C. Lant, J. Beaulieu, L. Duram, J. Ruhl, D. Bennett, J. Adams, and J. Nicklow.  2001.  “Ecological restoration in multiple-ownership watersheds: The case of the Cache River in Illinois – Insights from multidisciplinary research”  2001 Governor’s Conference on the Management of the Illinois River System, Eighth Biennial Conference.  The Illinois River: Partnerships for Progress, Restoration, and Preservation.  Peoria, IL

Loftus, T., J. Adams, S. Kraft, C. Lant, L. Duram, J. Beaulieu, D. Bennett, J. Nicklow, J. Ruhl.  2001.  “Planning in multiple-ownership watersheds: The case of the Cache River, Illinois”  US Society for Ecological Economics, Inaugural Conference.  Pathways to Sustainability: Theory and practice.  Duluth, MN

Loftus, T., L. Duram, J. Beaulieu, S. Kraft, J. Ruhl, C. Lant, J. Nicklow, D. Bennett, and J. Adams.  2001.  “Understanding the social context for ecological restoration in multiple-ownership watersheds: The case of the Cache River in Illinois”  EPA/NSF/USDA Partnership for Environmental Research.  Water and Watersheds Research Grants Progress Review Meeting.  San Francisco, CA

J. Beaulieu, D. Bennett, C.L. Lant, J. Nicklow, 2001. A Spatial Decision Support System for Adaptive Management of Watersheds. American Water Resources Association Summer Symposium and Universities Council on Water Resources Annual Meeting, Snowbird, UT, June, 2001.

Lant, C.L. and L.A. Duram, 2001. Watershed Management Groups in the U.S. Third Annual Illinois Renewable Natural Resources Conference, Peoria, IL, March, 7, 2001.

Lant, C.L., 2001. Panel Discussion on “Water Resource Geography: Theoretical Reappraisals.” Annual Meetings of the AAG. New York, NY, February, 2001.

Lant, C.L., 2001. “Understanding the Social Context of Watershed Restoration in Multiple-Ownership Watersheds,” Illustrated Poster.  Annual Meetings of the AAG. New York, NY, February, 2001.

Lant, C. L. and L.A. Duram, 2000.  The Big Picture: Watershed Management Groups in the U.S. Illinois Pilot Watershed Workshop, Decatur, IL, March 24, 2000.

Lant, C.L. S.E. Kraft, J. Adams, J. Beaulieu, D. Bennett, L. Duram, J.B. Ruhl, 2000. A Spatial Decision Support System for Watershed Management. Illinois Pilot Watershed Workshop, Decatur, IL, March 24, 2000.

Lant, C.L., S.E. Kraft,  J. Adams, J. Beaulieu, D. Bennett, L. Duram, J.B. Ruhl, 2000. Understanding the Social Context of Watershed Planning in Multiple-Ownership Watersheds (poster). World Water Congress, Melbourne, Australia, March, 2000.

Lant,  C.L., 1998. Reporter: Plenary session on Cross Current in Water Policy. Universities Council on Water Resources, Hood River, OR, August.

Lant, C.L. 1998. Panel Discussion on "Editor's Round Table: Copyright Issues in Journal Publications". Copyright in an Educational Environment, Carbondale, IL, April.

Lant, C.L. and P.H. Brown, 1998. Wetland Mitigation Banking and No‑Net‑Loss. Annual Meetings of the AAG. Boston, MA, March.

Lant, C.L. and S.E. Kraft, 1997. Environmental Benefit Indices and the Second CRP. Applied Geography Conference, Albuquerque, NM, November, 1997.

Lant, C.L., 1997. Panel Discussion: The Future of Academic Publishing.  Summer Symposium, American Water Resources Association, Keystone. CO, June.

Lant, C.L., D. Bennett, and S.E. Kraft,, 1997. Ecological Restoration in Multiple‑Ownership Watersheds: The Case of the Cache River, Illinois. Summer Symposium, American Water Resources Association, Keystone. CO.

Lant, C.L., 1997 Discussant: Environmental Impact Assessment of River Basins in Response to Global Climate Change, Annual Meetings of the AAG, Ft. Worth, Texas, April.

Lant, C.L., 1996. Panel Discussion: Watershed Restoration Policy. American Water Resources Association Symposium on Watershed Restoration.  Syracuse, NY, July, 1996.

Lant, C.L., 1996.  Ecological Restoration in Multiple‑Ownership Watersheds: The Case of the Cache River. American Water Resources Association Symposium on Watershed Restoration.  Syracuse, NY, July, 1996.

Lant, C.L., Bennett, D.A., Duram, L.A. and D.S. Sharpe, 1996. Ecological Restoration in Multiple‑Ownership Watersheds: The Case of the Cache River. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC, April, 1996.

Lant, C.L., 1995. The Potential of the 1990 Farm Bill to Conserve and Restore Wetlands in Cornbelt Watersheds. Versatility of Wetlands in the Agricultural Landscape, sponsored by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the American Water Resources Association, Tampa, FL.

Lant, C.L. and J.D. Corbin, 1995. Urban vs. Rural Interests in the 1990 Missouri Natural Streams Act. Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings, Chicago, IL.

Munyoka, K., S.E. Kraft, and C.L. Lant, 1994. The Plans of CRP-Contract Holders for the Post-Contract Use of their CRP Land,” NCT-163 Post CRP Land Use Conference, Denver, CO, Jan. 1994.

Kraft, S.E., K. Munyoka, and C.L. Lant, 1994. Post-Contract Use of CRP Land: Intentions of Farm Operators from 10 Midwestern Counties (poster), When CRP Contracts Expire: The Policy Options—A National Conference, Washington, DC. Feb. 1994.

Kraft, S.E., C.L. Lant, and K. Gillman, 1994. WQIP: Factors Influencing the Successful Implementation of Policy,” paper presented at the annual meetings of NCR-149 Socio-Economic Factors Affecting Conservation Policy in the 1990s, Washington, DC Feb., 1994.

Lant, C.L. and S.E. Kraft, 1994. Water Quality Policies for Corn Belt Watersheds: The Plans of CRP-Contract Holders for Post-Contract Use of Their CRP Land and the WQIP: An Assessment of its Chances for Acceptance by Farmers—Survey Results, Fourth Annual Conference of the Illinois Groundwater Consortium, Makanda, IL, March, 1994.

Kraft, S.E., C.L. Lant, and K. Gillman, 1994. WQIP: An Assessment of its Chances for Acceptance by Farmers—Survey Results (poster), 49th Annual Meetings of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Norfolk, VA, Aug., 1994.

Kraft, S.E. and C.L. Lant, 1994. WQIP as Environmental Policy‑‑An Assessment for the 1995 Farm Bill.  Working Group Meeting for Agriculture in the Environment, DeKalb, IL.

Akama, J.A. and C.L. Lant, 1994. Conflicting Attitudes of Local People and Conservation Officials in Kenya. Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

Lant, C.L., 1994. The Role of Property Rights on Economic Research on U.S. Wetlands Policy. Association of American Geographers Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA.

Lant, C.L. and J. Sims, 1993. Social Ideologies of Urban Water Conservation. CONSERV '93 Conference, Las Vegas, NV.

Munyoka, K., S.E. Kraft and C.L. Lant, 1993. CRP Contract Holders' Intentions for their Post‑Contract Use of their Land, paper presented at the 86th Annual Meeting of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Carbondale, IL.

Lant, C.L., 1993. Facilitator: Break‑out Group 7: Avenues for Education and Public Participation ‑‑Strategies for Avoiding and Resolving Environmental Conflicts.  The Cache River Workshop, Southern Illinois University‑Carbondale.

Lant, C.L. and S.E. Kraft, 1993. A Supply Curve for Agricultural Land Entering an Environmentally Directed ARCP: Results of Piecewise Linear Regression, Poster paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Fort Worth, TX.

Lant, C.L. and S.E. Kraft, 1993. Agricultural Policy Tools to Protect Water Quality in Cornbelt Watersheds, Illinois Groundwater Consortium, Carbondale, Illinois.

Kraft, S.E. and C.L. Lant, 1993. A Farmer‑Derived Supply Curve for Land Entering An Environmentally Directed ARCP: Data from Ten Midwestern Counties, Poster paper presented at The Next Generation of U.S. Agricultural Conservation Policy organized by the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Kansas City, MO.

Kraft, S.E., C.L. Lant and J. Steinbeck, 1993. Farmer Attitudes Towards Alternative Policies to Control the Agricultural Contamination of Groundwater, National Conference on Protecting Water Quality, Minneapolis, MN.

Lant, C.L. and S.E. Kraft, 1992. The Potential of the 1990 Farm Bill to Preserve and Restore Cornbelt Wetlands, INTECOL, IV International Wetlands Conference, Columbus, OH.

Steinbeck, J., C.L. Lant, and S.E. Kraft, 1992. Farmer Attitudes Toward Alternative Policies to Control the Agricultural Contamination of Groundwater, 85th Annual Meetings of the Illinois State Academy of Science, Springfield, IL.

Kraft, S.E. and C.L. Lant, 1992. Reactions of Farmers to Policy Tools to Protect Water Quality in Cornbelt Watersheds: A Contingent Valuation Study, 47th Annual Meetings of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, Baltimore, MD.

Kraft, S.E., C.L. Lant and J. Steinbeck, 1992. Farmers' Attitudes Toward Different Policy Approaches to Control the Contamination of Groundwater, Annual Meetings of the Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

Lant, C.L. and S.E. Kraft, 1992. Agricultural Policy Tools to Protect Water Quality in Cornbelt Watersheds, Illinois Groundwater Consortium, Springfield, Illinois.

Lant, C.L., 1992. The Political Ecology of Wetlands in Cornbelt Agriculture, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Diego, CA.

Davie, D.K. and C.L. Lant, 1991. The Effect of the CRP on Sediment Concentrations in Two Southern Illinois Watersheds, Applied Geography Conference, Toledo, OH.

Lant, C.L., 1991. Spatial and Economic Evaluation of Illinois Wetland Functions, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Miami, FL.

Lant, C.L. and J. Mullens 1990. Lake and River Quality (Not Water Quality) in Recreation Management, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Lant, C.L. 1989. Employing the Conservation Reserve Program to Control Agricultural Water Pollution, Applied Geography Conference, Binghamton, NY.

Lant, C.L. 1989. The Effectiveness of Greenbelts in Filtering Sediment in Cornbelt Rivers, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, MD.

Lant, C.L. 1988. Evaluating Riparian Corridors through Contingent Valuation. Water Resources Specialty Group Session, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Phoenix, AZ.

Lant, C.L. 1987. Greenbelts: An Economic Evaluation of Riparian Corridors in the Agricultural Midwest. Applied Geography Conference, Knoxville, TN.

Lant, C.L. 1987. A Research Design to Demonstrate Market Failure in Provision of Environmental Services. Water Resources Specialty Group, Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Portland, OR.

Lant, C.L. 1986. Evaluating Environmental Services as Public Goods: A Program for Agricultural Land Use in Iowa. AAG Annual Westlakes Meeting, Green Bay, WI.

GUEST LECTURES AND MEDIA APPEARANCES

Lant, C.L., 2007. “Ecosystem Services in U.S. Environmental Policy,” presented to the Southern Illinois chapter of the Sierra Club, May 10, 2007.

Lant, C.L. 2007 “Water and Ecosystem Services” presented to First Presbyterian Church, Carbondale, IL.

Lant, C.L., 2007. Leo Kaplan Memorial Lecture, SIUC Chapter of Sigma Xi. April, 2007.

Lant, C.L., 2007. “Ecosystem Services in U.S. Environmental Policy,” presented 03/08/07 at the University of Delaware Center for Energy and the Environment Colloquium.

Lant, C.L., 2005. “Water Resource Sustainability: An Ecological Economics Perspective.” Presented 11/15/05 at Eastern Illinois University for Geography Awareness Week.

Lant, C.L., T. Prato and R. Weibusch, 2004. Colloquium on Adaptive Management of the Missouri River Ecosystem. April 22, 2004, SIUC.

Lant, C.L., 2003. “Congressional Forum on Control of Nonpoint Source Water Pollution” Report for Renewable Natural Resources Foundation. U.S. House of Representatives, Science Committee Hearing Room, 2325 Rayburn House Office Building. 3/27/03.

Duram, L.A. and C.L. Lant, “Understanding the Social Context of Ecological Restoration in Multiple Ownership Watersheds,” 9/14/01, University of Illinois Department of Geography colloquium.

“Spatial Decision Support Systems for the Cache River,” 1/11/01, for “Friends of the Cache” annual meeting, Ullin, IL.

“Environmental regulation of agriculture”, 11/00 for Plant Biology 300: Contemporary Environmental Issues.

Watershed Management in the Cache River. 4/11/00 for Zoology 458. Issues in Aquatic Ecology.

“Green Futures” Radio Interviews on world water issues (3) 7/4/2000  7/11/2000  7/18/2000

Southern Illinoisan Interview: Environmental Resources and Policy (ER&P) 7/11/2000

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