Similar Search Results

Development by Design in Western Australia: Overcoming Offset Obstacles

Fitzsimons, James; Heiner, Michael; McKenney, Bruce; … - In: Land 3 (2014) 1, pp. 167-187

Biodiversity offsets can be an important tool for maintaining or enhancing environmental values<i> </i>in situations where development is sought despite negative environmental impacts. There are now approximately 45 compensatory mitigation programs for biodiversity impacts worldwide, with another 27...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029718

Land Use and Wildfire: A Review of Local Interactions and Teleconnections

Butsic, Van; Kelly, Maggi; Moritz, Max A. - In: Land 4 (2015) 1, pp. 140-156

Fire is a naturally occurring process of most terrestrial ecosystems as well as a tool for changing land use. Since the beginning of history humans have used fire as a mechanism for creating areas suitable for agriculture and settlement. As fires threaten human dominated landscapes, fire risk...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185876

Economic Valuation of Land Uses in Oudomxay Province, Lao PDR: Can REDD+ be Effective in Maintaining Forests?

Wong, Grace Y.; Darachanthara, Souphith; Soukkhamthat, … - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 1059-1074

The rapid economic growth in Lao PDR over the last two decades has been driven by the natural resource sectors and commercialization in the agriculture sector. Rural landscapes are being transformed over the past decade from land use mosaics of subsistence and smallholder farms to large-scale...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029672

Calibrating and Validating a Simulation Model to Identify Drivers of Urban Land Cover Change in the Baltimore, MD Metropolitan Region

Jantz, Claire; Drzyzga, Scott; Maret, Michael - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 1158-1179

We build upon much of the accumulated knowledge of the widely used SLEUTH urban land change model and offer advances …. First, we use SLEUTH’s exclusion/attraction layer to identify and test different urban land cover change drivers; second, we … relationship between changes in population and employment and urban land use. Finally, we emphasize the importance of model …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029687

Comparing Path Dependence and Spatial Targeting of Land Use in Implementing Climate Change Responses

Brown, Iain; Castellazzi, Marie; Feliciano, Diana - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 850-873

Land use patterns are the consequence of dynamic processes that often include important legacy issues. Evaluation of past trends can be used to investigate the role of path dependence in influencing future land use through a reference “business as usual” (BAU) scenario. These issues are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029689

An Application for Regional Coastal Erosion Processes in Urban Areas: A Case Study of the Golden Horseshoe in Canada

Vaz, Eric; Bowman, Lisa - In: Land 2 (2013) 4, pp. 595-608

Urban growth has had unprecedented consequences on environmental sustainability and anthropogenic activity. The eroding … coastlines throughout the world are subject to the massive expansion of urban areas and the accountability of sustainable … transitions in the coastal stretches of the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Comprising the urban expansion of the region between 1990 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029721

Investigation of the Dominant Factors Influencing the ERA15 Temperature Increments at the Subtropical and Temperate Belts with a Focus over the Eastern Mediterranean Region

Hirsch-Eshkol, Tali; Baharad, Anat; Alpert, Pinhas - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 1015-1036

A stepwise multi regression-based statistics was employed for prioritizing the influence of several factors, anthropogenic and/or natural, on the ERA15 temperature increments. The 5 factors that are defined as predictors are: topography, aerosol index (TOMS-AI), tropospheric vertical velocity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029725

Multi-Layer Assessment of Land Use and Related Changes for Decision Support in a Coastal Zone Watershed

Gitau, Margaret; Bailey, Nathaniel - In: Land 1 (2012) 1, pp. 5-31

In order to address the challenges in coastal regions, there is the need to understand the extent and impacts of past changes and their implications for future management. Land use data and remotely-sensed imagery are often used to provide insights into these changes. Often, however, existing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010675905

Managing Urban Wellbeing in Rural Areas: The Potential Role of Online Communities to Improve the Financing and Governance of Highly Valued Nature Areas

Bijker, Rixt A.; Mehnen, Nora; Sijtsma, Frans J.; … - In: Land 3 (2014) 2, pp. 437-459

The urban and the rural are increasingly interconnected. Rural areas have become places of consumption, as leisure and … nowadays seem increasingly to host urban wellbeing, given the positive relation found between green areas and human wellbeing …. We provide empirical evidence for this urban–rural interconnection, using results from a survey in the Netherlands. In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029701