Although relationships between fragmentation of urban development and other forms of administrative and land cover fragmentation are important, they are poorly understood. This research aimed to better understand these relationships in order to inform land use planning in the Roaring Fork/Colorado River Corridor of Colorado. Change in fragmentation of urban development between 1985 and 1999 was...

Forest fragmentation threatens the sustainability of forest communities in the eastern United States. Forest communities exhibiting either a low total area or low percentage of intact forest are subject to relatively higher risk of shifts in stand composition towards edge-adapted and invasive species. Such changes in stand composition could result in local extirpation of communities, homogeniza...

The development of Agricultural Land Consolidation in Russia has always been unique, compared to other countries due the state land policy, vastness territory, and variety natural soil conditions. Because it, internationally recognized generally accepted approaches models it cannot be applied. consolidation agricultural country is developing sometimes spontaneously chaotic. At federal level, th...

Habitat fragmentation is widely considered a primary threat to biodiversity. In this paper, we analyze incentive-based policies designed to reduce forest fragmentation in the coastal plain region of South Carolina. Our approach integrates an econometric model of land use with simulations that predict the spatial pattern of land-use change. We analyze how subsidies for afforestation affect distr...

Plantinga, Andrew J.; Alig, Ralph J.; Eichman, Henry; Lewis, David J. 2007. Linking land-use projections and forest fragmentation analysis. Res. Pap. PNWRP-570. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station. 41 p. An econometric model of private land-use decisions is used to project land use to 2030 for each county in the continental United States. On a...

The question of incorporating road maps into U.S. national assessments of forest fragmentation has been a contentious issue, but there has not been a comparative national analysis to inform the debate. Using data and indices from previous national assessments, we compared fragmentation as calculated from high-resolution land-cover maps alone (Method 1) and after superimposing detailed road maps...

Land fragmentation, which implies a defective land tenure structure, is a major problem at various spatial scales, and may hinder effective agricultural production and sustainable rural development. Policy decisions to reduce land fragmentation require reliable measurement indices. However, current indices present significant weaknesses since they do not take all of the relevant factors into ac...

VALUING NATURAL SPACE AND LANDSCAPE FRAGMENTATION IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA By Lee. Wyatt Carpenter A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Environmental Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016 Major Professor: Clifford J. Fox, Ph.D. Adjunct Faculty, Center for Environmental Studies Hedonic pricing ...

Landscape modification and habitat fragmentation are key drivers of global species and biodiversity loss, as well as a major threat to the conservation of forest ecosystems. Mexico is one of the five biologically richest countries in the world. This study first generated a national level assessment of the fragmentation of temperate and tropical forests in Mexico for 2002, 2008, and 2013. Then, ...