Assessing impacts on urban greenspace,waterways, and vegetation in urban planning |
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Authors: | Heather A Sander |
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Institution: | Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA |
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Abstract: | Parks, waterways, and vegetation enhance the well-being of urbanites and thus warrant consideration in planning and policy-making. It is, however, difficult to assess how land-use change may impact these features and how this in turn may impact well-being. I use a case-study approach to present a framework that combines geospatial and economic valuation techniques to generate indicators of the effects of land-use policies that alter these amenities on community well-being. This framework quantifies the impacts of land-use change on urban environmental amenities in a way that could help communities plan land use so as to maintain well-being as they urbanise. |
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Keywords: | urban green space urban vegetation urban water land-use change urban planning |
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