Rural and suburban development has been and will continue to depend heavily on the use of onsite private sewage systems. The exodus to rural settings combined with changing technologies for sewage disposal that reduce site limitations to development have raised a broad set of land use, infrastructure, and environmental concerns. In a study of development in Wisconsin, we found that the type of ...

Rapid growth of rural communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Macon County, North Carolina has been giving rise to concerns over declining environmental quality and increasing need for land-use policy. This paper examines willingness to pay (WTP) for hypothetical conservation easements as an alternative land-use policy for the county. Despite the fact that Macon County has struggled to adopt...

This paper discusses the implications of poor or non-existent information on soil quality, at the proper scale, during the planning and implementation of settlement projects in the Brazilian Amazon. Based on data from the Machadinho settlement project, Rondônia, we show that most settlers had no knowledge about the agricultural capability of the area, did not receive technical information, coul...

In this paper,it gave a detailed introduction about the classification process of land use in Guangzhou supported by RS and GIS software using the data of Landsat TM of 1997 and 2003. After being geometric corrected subset and enhanced, the images were classified into 9 classes as farmland, orchard, forest, disk-pond, urban and rural land, developing area, river, lake and unused land by using m...

Australia, in compiling the annual National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, needs to account for emissions in the Inventory’s Forests and Grasslands Conversion subsector resulting from land management activities since 1970. Clearing of land makes a significant but poorly quantified contribution to these emissions. Rates of land cover change (clearing and regrowth) since 1970 are currently being docum...