Policies for managing urban growth and landscape change: a key to conservation in the 21st century

Abstract

Protecting natural areas in the face of urbanization is one of the most important challenges for conservation in the 21st century. The papers in this collection examine key issues related to growth management and selected approaches to managing urban growth and minimizing its social and environmental costs. They were presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology; July 30-August 2, 2004; Columbia University, New York, NY.

Titles contained within Policies for managing urban growth and landscape change: a key to conservation in the 21st century

• The rise and fall of concern about urban sprawl in the United States: an updated analysis
• Urbanization as a threat to biodiversity: trophic theory, economic geography, and implications for conservation land acquisition
• Protecting open space in and around the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area
• Brownfield redevelopment: a hidden opportunity for conservation biology
• Seoul's greenbelt: an experiment in urban containment
• Urban growth management and ecological sustainability: confronting the "smart growth" fallacy
• The big tent of growth management: smart growth as a movement

Citation

Bengston, David N., tech. ed. 2005. Policies for managing urban growth and landscape change: a key to conservation in the 21st century. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-265. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 51 p.