Planning the Uses and Management of Land

Bys: Beatty, Marvin T., Petersen, Gary W., Swindale, Leslie D.

While human uses of the land have been increasing in scope, diversity, and intensity so have our bases of scientific knowledge of land, our inventories of the geographic distribution of land resources, and our institutional tools for achieving land use goals. One of the many challenges of land use planning is that of linking information from the physical and biological sciences with social values and political realities in a participatory process of establishing goals and making decisions. There are many publications which deal with the scientific, technical, and geographic information on land resources. Likewise, many others deal with planning principles, processes, and programs. Few publications link these two major topic areas. Interest in land use problems and issues among agronomists and other scientists has prompted development of this monograph. It brings under one cover information on several of the data bases for land resources and gives overviews of major land use planning principles, problems, and processes.

• Format: Misc.
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891182152
• ISBN13: 9780891182153
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Wiley