Exurbia from the bottom-up: Confronting empirical challenges to characterizing a complex system

Geoforum

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 805-818

  Brown, Daniel G ^a   Robinson, Derek T ^a   An, Li ^b   Nassauer, Joan I ^a   Zellner, Moira ^a,c   Rand, William ^a,d   Riolo, Rick ^a   Page, Scott E ^a   Low, Bobbi ^a   Wang, Zhifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological effects; Land cover change; Land use change; Spatial modeling; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN PLANNING;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39849088130     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.02.010     Document Type: Article

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