The impact of growth management policy through zoning ordinances on land-use and -cover change is a topic of increasing interest, especially with regard to urban sprawl and forest and agricultural land preservation. As urban and residential land use is quickly replacing extractive land use in southern Indiana, implementation of growth management policy has become a topic of great debate. This a...

Alternative land use zoning scenarios provide guidance for sustainable land use controls. This study focused on an ecologically vulnerable catchment on the Loess Plateau in China, proposed a novel land use zoning model, and generated alternative zoning solutions to satisfy the various requirements of land use stakeholders and managers. This model combined multiple zoning objectives, i.e., maxim...

Oregon's land-use planning program is often cited as an exemplary approach to forest and farmland conservation, but analyses of its effectiveness are limited. This article examines Oregon's land-use planning program using detailed spatial data describing building densities in western Oregon. An empirical model describes changes in building densities on forest and agricultural lands from 1974 to...

Zoning strategic agricultural land for protection has become important in reducing agricultural land loss in rapidly growing areas. In this paper, a constrained CA model based on the integration of remote sensing, GIs, and cellular automata (CA) techniques was developed to overcome the limitations of the existing methods commonly used b y planners in zoning land for agricultural protection. Rem...

This paper examines the effects of environmental zoning policies on lakefront land development, sorting, and economic welfare in a model where agents are heterogeneous in preferences and income. Agents consume lakefront amenities that are endogenous to development and the sorting process yields lakes which differ by amenities and frontage prices. Our findings include the following: i) lakes bec...

prediction of the agricultural developmental problems has ever been one of the goals of proper agricultural development, to gain more productions from the minimum resources. the goal of this research is zoning prone area of olive cultivation with two methods: gis and genetic algorithm. also the results have been compared with the current olive cultivation areas in lorestan province and the resu...

a Earth Resources Technology, Inc., at Biospheric Science Laboratory (Code 618), NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA b Biospheric Science Laboratory (Code 618), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory USDA, Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Beltsville, MD 20705, USA d School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, ...