The planner’s guide to natural resource conservation: the science of land development beyond the metropolitan fringe

Much of the country’s recent population growth is situated beyond the metropolitan fringe, where development consumes millions of acres of privately owned land. Exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of land development in America and there is no indication it will slow in the future. This development depletes agricultural and wildlands, and causes numerous environmental impactsranging from the loss of biodiversity and wildland habitats to soil erosion, an increase in nonnative species, and the heightened threat to endangered species. Written for regional planners, planning commissions, local elected officials, environmental groups, and the public-at-large, The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation provides readers from diverse, nonscientific backgrounds with a working knowledge of how and why exurbanization impacts environmental systems. Contributors include experts in rangeland ecology, restoration ecology, zoology, urban and regional planning, and conservation biology. First,we believe that environmental conservation is promoted best by opening the door to science, especially to those most directly involved with land development decisions Second, we seek to broaden the involvement of environmental scientists in land-use planning who can, and should, comment on land-use decisions at the outset INDICE: From the contents Section 1: Exurbanization in Perspective: History, Impacts and Science Fundamentals.- Section 2: Exurban Land Development, Habitat and Wildlife.- Section 3: Vegetation, Climate Change and Fire.- Section 4: Water Resources, Wetlands and Storm Water Management.- Section 5: Science-Based Planning in Exurban Areas.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-98166-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 210
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés