The Maintenance of Landscape Health in the Midst of Land Use Change |
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Authors: | Bruce K Ferguson |
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Institution: | University of Georgia, 609 Caldwell Hall, Athens, 30602-1845, Georgia, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Land use design that recognizes the landscape attributes that characterize homeostatic health can emphasize them during land use change. The attributes of landscape health are the working mechanisms of all open systems, and can be observed in the homeostatic behavior of forests, deserts and floodplains. These attributes are openness, self-regulation, storage and diversity. The attributes of health comprise criteria for evaluating and guiding land use. To maintain landscape health, land use design can maintain and restore these mechanisms during change of moderate pace and scale. |
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Keywords: | landscape health land use |
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