Publication Date |
2005 |
Personal Author |
Bengston, D. N. |
Page Count |
62 |
Abstract |
Protecting natural areas in the face of urbanization is one of the most important challenges for conservation in the 21st century. Rapid population growth and increasingly land-consumptive development patterns have combined in many countries to put severe pressure on natural systems. In the United States, sprawling development is the most significant factor affecting forest ecosystems in the South and is the leading cause of habitat loss and species endangerment in the contiguous U.S. Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth (2004) has identified loss of open space due to sprawling development as one of the four main threats to public and private forests. The public sector has responded to growing awareness of and concern about the social, economic, and environmental costs of sprawling development by creating a wide range of policy instruments designed to more effectively manage urban growth. Growth management has been defined in many ways, but essentially it consists of government actions ' to guide the location, quality, and timing of development'. The papers in this collection examine key issues related to growth management and selected approaches to managing urban growth and minimizing its undesirable impacts. |
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Source Agency |
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Corporate Authors |
North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN. |
Supplemental Notes |
Presented at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting 'Conservation in an Urbanizing World', New York, NY., July 30-August 2, 2004. |
Document Type |
Technical Report |
Title Note |
Forest Service general technical rept. |
NTIS Issue Number |
200622 |