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Carbon dynamics of global land use, land-use change, and forestry
… from the atmosphere when the harvested land regrows. Recent studies, however, find that wood bioenergy can exacerbate climate change because it is less efficient than the fossil fuels it displaces, and because regrowth takes time and is uncertain. Other land use, land-use change, and …
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Land use and landscapes: the future of Alaska land use control
The role of the state in land use control was examined in general, and in relation to the land use context of Alaska. The study provides a brief overview of the history of land ownership and land control in Alaska as well as the particular difficulties attendant to the control and management of …
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Relationships Between Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Water-Quality Trends in Virginia
This research examines the relationships between land use and surface water quality trends in Virginia. Data from 168 surface water quality monitoring stations throughout Virginia were analyzed for trends for the period of 1978 to 1995. Water-quality data available at these stations included …
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Agricultural Land Use of Guadeloupe
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T20:48:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100147.pdf: 7127120 bytes, checksum: 6d41ca8900ee13a39c2fc3804cdaba45 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Land-use planning in the Liesbeeck-Black River confluence area: management recommendations and land-use alternatives
… BLR) is titled "Environmental Baseline Study for Land-Use Decision-Making in the Liesbeeck and Black River Confluence Area" (ENGEO Master's Class, 1994). It contains a comprehensive description, as well as preliminary analysis, of all the environmental components (socioeconomic and biophysical) …
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Bredasdorp: a regional land-use study
… area, although it includes small portions of land at its western and eastern extremities which fall in the Caledon and Riversdale Divisional Council areas. Its southern limit is the 190 km stretch of coast along the Atlantic and Indian oceans to the west and east respectively of Cape Agulhas …
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Land Use on the Urban Fringe
… protecting their county's natural resources. Land conservation policies incentivize landowners to keep land identified as critical environmental resources in their natural state. In this project, we analyze property-level administrative data to evaluate whether land conservation policies and …
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Land use, spatial structure, and regional economic performance: assessing the economic effects of land use planning and regulation
… and structural changes can directly affect land use patterns within the regions, little is known about the inverse: how a change or intervention in land use influences regional economic performance. Does land use planning or regulation promote a region's economic well-being? Alternatively, …
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Land Use Planning after a Natural Disaster
… the complexity of recovery through the lens of land use planning. Land use planning serves as the central focus because land provides an individual or family their livelihood and its use underlies the economy. The thesis considers two planning models -- rational comprehensive and incremental. …
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Monitoring Global Forest Land-Use and Change
… and comparable estimates of global forest land-use and change are critical for monitoring human impacts on the Earth system. International treaties and reporting requirements aimed at safeguarding the delivery of forest-related ecosystem services depend on such estimates for measuring …
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Hydrological responses to moorland land-use change
Most documented investigations of the effects of land-use change on hydrological systems have considered the modification of forest areas. In this thesis, a headwater area in the North York Moors is used to examine the consequences of maintaining a land management regime which has received …
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City of McFarland Land Use Element Update
<p>The City of McFarland, CA is in the process of updating its General Plan and identified updating the land use element as the first step in this process. This land use element consists of a land use diagram, land use standards, and goals, policies, and programs. These components of the document …
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The third dimension in land use planning.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of City and Regional Planning. Thesis. 1966. M.C.P.
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Uncertainty, Emerging Biomass Markets, and Land Use
… study the effects of emerging biomass markets on land use changes between alternatives of agricultural production, conventional timber production, and forest woody biomass production for energy use. Along with the uncertainty associated with woody biomass prices and rents, transaction costs …
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Diplomatic Solutions: Land Use in Anglo-Saxon Worcestershire
… of one of the wealthiest sees in Anglo-Saxon England, used charters to acquire land, obtain rights and privileges for their existing estates, and manage trade within limits imposed by the king. Rights associated with bookland, land held by charter, gave bishops and their agents the ability to …
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Avian Land-Use Associations in the Eastern Mediterranean
Land-use change and associated habitat loss and species invasions are two of the greatest threats to global biodiversity. In Europe, changes in farmland management practices driven in part by the European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) have caused dramatic declines in associated …
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Land use and population in Ra Province, Fiji
… disciplines than has any other south Pacific island group, though in view of its status as one of the largest and most populous of these groups, and also of its position on trans-Pacific air and sea routes, this is scarcely surprising. The resultant studies have tended to fall into two classes, …
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