Exurban residential household behaviors and values: Influence of parcel size and neighbors on carbon storage potential

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 37-46

  Visscher, Rachel Stehouwer ^a   Nassauer, Joan Iverson ^a   Brown, Daniel G ^a   Currie, William S ^a   Parker, Dawn C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Landcover; Residential landscape; Urban ecology; Urban forest; Web survey

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; HOUSING; SURVEYS;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LAND COVER; RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPE; URBAN ECOLOGY; URBAN FORESTS; WEB SURVEYS;

FORESTRY;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; LAND COVER; NEIGHBORHOOD; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CARBON; ECOLOGY; FERTILIZERS; IRRIGATION; MICHIGAN; STORAGE;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929584672     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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