书目名称 | Land Use Policy and Practice on Karst Terrains |
副标题 | Living on Limestone |
编辑 | Spencer Fleury |
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概述 | First book-length work devoted solely to the topic of land use regulation in karst terrains.Provides a framework for understanding and developing karst land use regulations |
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描述 | .Land use decisions in karst terrains can have immediate and serious impacts on the local landscape and groundwater resources. The existing literature on karst and land use can be very difficult to locate in the journals of any of a half-dozen different disciplines. This book brings the interdisciplinary knowledge together in one place, in a format that academics and professionals alike will find accessible, informative and useful..Based on an examination of existing regulations, the experiences and opinions of planners and land use professionals, and quantitative analysis of publicly-available data, the book explores how human settlement patterns and urban systems in karst terrains are affected by land use regulations intended to protect karst resources. The book pays particular attention to the questions of whether these regulations will have a noticeable impact on density and on opportunities for economic growth and development in communities that choose to implement them. This analysis serves as the basis for a regulatory framework that may be used to understand the workings of land use regulations in karst terrains, and to aid in the development of such regulations in the futu |
出版日期 | Book 2009 |
关键词 | Aquifers; Karst; Land use; Planning; Water Resources; development; landscape/regional and urban planning |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9670-9 |
isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-8934-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-9670-9 |
copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 |