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The Fire Next Time: Land Use Planning In The Wildland/Urban Interface, Jamison E. Colburn
The Fire Next Time: Land Use Planning In The Wildland/Urban Interface, Jamison E. Colburn
Jamison E. Colburn
Wildfire is a growing threat to suburban and exurban communities, in part because fires have grown more severe and frequent as a result of land use and climatic influences and in part because more people are living in fire prone areas. The so-called Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA), the federal government’s response to this crisis, is a deeply flawed statute that will likely exacerbate wildfire risks at the same time it makes real ecological restoration even harder. While HFRA took halting, partial steps toward the integration of broad and small scale land use planning, it was clearly still the outgrowth …
Adding Ecosystem Function To Agent-Based Land Use Models, Vineet Yadav, S Del Grosso, William Parton, George Malanson
Adding Ecosystem Function To Agent-Based Land Use Models, Vineet Yadav, S Del Grosso, William Parton, George Malanson
George P Malanson
The objective of this paper is to examine issues in the inclusion of simulations of ecosystem functions in agent-based models of land use decision-making,