Impact of Population Growth and Urban Sprawl on Land Use and Forest Type Dynamics along Urban-rural Gradient*
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In this study we applied a conditional logit model to determine factors affecting land cover change in three contiguous counties in West Georgia (Muscogee, Harris and Meriwether) during the period 1992-2001 and used this model to predict land cover changes during the period 2001-2021 based on the assumptions of population growth.
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