Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes
Subtitle: The Upper San Pedro River Basin In Arizona And Sonora
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781559633352
Subjects: Environmental impact analysis; Landscape art & architecture; Management of land & natural resources; San Pedro River Watershed (Mexico and Ariz.); Land use; Architecture; San Pedro River Watershed (Mex; Arizona; Mexico; Landscape; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev; Architecture / Landscape; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Urbanization; Case studies; Regional planning
First sentence: When regions face changing conditions and environmental crises, new policies and plans are required.
Description: "Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes presents an innovative GIS-based simulation modeling strategy that considers the demographic, economic, physical, and environmental processes of an area and projects the consequences of various land-use planning and management decisions.

The results of such projections, and the approach itself, are known as "alternative futures." This book presents a detailed illustration of the alternative futures approach through an analysis of development and conservation options for the Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Mexico."--BOOK JACKET.