Regional Assessment of Urban Impacts on Landcover and Open Space Finds a Smart Urban Growth Policy Performs Little Better than Business as Usual

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Thorne, James H ^a   Santos, Maria J ^b   Bjorkman, Jacquelyn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; MODERN TIMES; POLICY; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; FORESTRY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; POPULATION GROWTH; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FORESTRY; HUMANS; POPULATION GROWTH; SAN FRANCISCO; URBAN RENEWAL; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84878763166     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065258     Document Type: Article

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