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Posts Tagged ‘Land Use’

Adapting Land Use and Water Management Plans to a Changing Climate in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, Florida

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

Our goals in this research were to help improve the region’s capacity to adapt to both a changing climate and changes in land use and to better understand the costs of both action and inaction across a wide range of futures. Drawing on experience in Louisiana and other coastal environments, we set out to build a transparent, interactive, and technically credible approach to decision support to assess vulnerabilities and gain insights into the potential strategies to reduce vulnerabilities under a range of climate and land use futures. Our work builds on the strong base of leadership and technical capacity already present in the region.

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Video Series: The Disappearing West

Friday, May 20th, 2016

Every 2.5 minutes, the American West loses a football field worth of natural area to human development. This project maps a rapidly changing landscape, explores what is being lost, and profiles a new movement for conservation that is gaining ground.

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The Impact of Residential Growth Patterns on Vehicle Travel and Pollutant Emissions

Friday, January 20th, 2012
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THE JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT AND LAND USE
In light of the increasing reliance on compact growth as a fundamental strategy for reducing vehicle emissions, it is important to better understand how land use-transportation interactions influence the production of mobile source emissions. To date, research findings have produced mixed conclusions as to whether compact development as a strategy for accommodating urban growth significantly reduces vehicle travel and, by extension, mitigates environmental impacts, particularly in the area of air quality. Using an integrated simulation approach coupled with long-term land development scenarios, we conducted an assessment of the impacts of different long-term primarily residential growth patterns on vehicle travel and pollutant emissions in the eight counties of the San Joaquin Valley region in central California.

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