Agricultural land fragmentation: The spatial effects of three land protection strategies in the eastern United States

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 58, Issue 2-4, 2002, Pages 255-268

  Brabec, Elizabeth ^a   Smith, Chip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Land Ethics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Fragmentation; Land conservation; Land protection; Metropolitan agriculture; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

EFFECTS; FARMS; URBAN PLANNING;

FRAGMENTATION;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DEVELOPMENT CONTROL; LAND USE PLANNING; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN GROWTH;

(EAST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037084751     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(01)00225-0     Document Type: Article

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