Landscape Patterns of Exurban Growth in the USA from 1980 to 2020

In the United States, citizens, policy makers, and natural resource managers alike have become concerned about urban sprawl, both locally and nationally. Most assessments of sprawl, or undesired growth patterns, have focused on quantifying land-use changes in urban and metropolitan areas. It is crit...

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Main Author: David M. Theobald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2005-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss1/art32/