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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Boxes | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Environmental Land Use Management | |
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| Managing Human-Environment Interactions | |
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| What Is Environmental Management? | |
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| Participants and Roles in Environmental Management | |
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| Environmental Management: A Reflection of Social Culture, Values, and Ethics | |
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| Visions of Paradise: Contemporary Perspectives on Managing the Environment | |
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| Historical Paradigms of Environmental Management and Evolution Toward Sustainability | |
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| Toward Sustainable Development | |
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| From Conservation to the Ecological Way | |
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| Summary | |
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| Environmental Planning | |
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| What Is Environmental Planning? | |
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| Approaches to Planning and the Planning Process | |
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| Interdisciplinary Considerations in Environmental Planning | |
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| Environmental Science and Engineering | |
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| Environmental Economics | |
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| Environmental Evaluation | |
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| Environmental Politics | |
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| Participation, Collaboration, and Conflict Resolution | |
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| Environmental Law | |
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| The Role of the Planner | |
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| Planner as Technician, as Information Source | |
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| Planner as Facilitator of Public Involvement, Builder of Community Support, Champion of Citizen Empowerment | |
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| Planner as Regulator | |
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| Planner as Negotiator among Interests, Mediator of Conflicts | |
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| Planner as Political Adviser, as Politician | |
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| Planner as Designer, as Visionary | |
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| Planner as Advocate | |
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| Environmental Planning in the Twenty-First Century: Toward Social and Scientific Learning through Collaborative and Adaptive Planning and Management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Land Use Planning for Environmental Management | |
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| Land Use and Development | |
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| Urban and Regional Development: The Evolution of and Response to Sprawl | |
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| Rural Land Use and Development | |
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| Public Resource Lands | |
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| Land Use and Environmental Protection | |
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| Land Use and Natural Hazards | |
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| Land Use Impacts on Human Environmental Health | |
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| Land Use Impacts on Hydrologic Systems | |
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| Land Use Impacts on Agricultural and Other Productive Land | |
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| Land Use Impacts on Ecological Resources | |
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| Land Use Impacts on Energy and Material Consumption | |
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| Land Use Impacts on Cultural Heritage and Community Character | |
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| Land Use Conflicts and Environmental Justice | |
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| A Framework for Land Use Planning | |
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| Intelligence: Background Data and Planning Analysis | |
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| Long-Range General Planning | |
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| District Planning | |
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| Functional Planning | |
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| Implementation Plans | |
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| Building Community Consensus | |
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| Emerging Approaches for Environmental Land Use Planning and Management | |
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| Community-Based Environmental Protection | |
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| Watershed Management | |
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| Ecosystem Management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Collaborative Environmental Management and Public Participation | |
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| Shared and Social Capital | |
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| Collaborative Environmental Planning and Decision Making | |
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| What Is Collaborative Environmental Planning? | |
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| Why Collaborate? | |
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| How to Collaborate? | |
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| From Decision Making to Action: Involving Stakeholders in Implementation | |
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| Considerations in Designing a Participation/Collaboration Process | |
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| What Are the Motivations and Objectives for Participation? | |
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| What Level of Participation Is Appropriate? | |
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| Who Should Be Involved? | |
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| When Should Participation Occur? | |
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| What Obstacles and Opportunities Are Present? | |
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| How Should Participation Be Evaluated? | |
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| What Participation and Collaboration Tools Should Be Employed? | |
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| Tools for Participation and Collaboration | |
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| Participatory Tools for Sustainable Design | |
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| Citizen Participation in Environmental Monitoring | |
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| Water Monitoring Programs | |
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| Mapping Environmental Conditions | |
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| Some Applications of Collaborative Environmental Management | |
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| National Forest Planning and Management in Virginia | |
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| Merck & Co. Project XL Agreement | |
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| Summary | |
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| Land Conservation for Working Landscapes, Open Space, and Ecological Protection | |
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| Some Dimensions of Land Conservation | |
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| Government Land Conservation | |
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| Federal Land Conservation | |
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| State and Local Land Conservation | |
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| Land Trusts | |
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| The Growing Role of Land Trusts | |
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| National/International Land Trusts: The Nature Conservancy | |
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| Local/Regional Land Trusts | |
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| Tools for Land Conservation | |
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| Designing a Land Conservation Program | |
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| Acquiring Land and Development Rights | |
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| Collaborative Conservation and Development | |
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| Tools to Conserve the Working Landscape | |
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| Design and Planning Tools for Open Space, Greenways, and Green Infrastructure | |
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| Private Land Stewardship | |
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| Smart Conservation and Smart Growth | |
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| Summary | |
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| Design with Nature for People: Sustainable, Livable, and Smart Land Use Development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Problems of Sprawl Revisited | |
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| Participants in Arresting Sprawl | |
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| Emerging Demographic and Land Development Trends | |
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| Basic Concepts and Early Roots of Sustainable Design | |
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| The Evolving Practice of Sustainable and Livable Development Design | |
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| The Ahwahnee Principles and Charter for the New Urbanism | |
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| Reducing Automobile Dependence: Toward Walkable Communities and Transit-Orientation | |
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| Traditional Neighborhoods, Walkability, and Community Life | |
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| Community and Suburban Revitalization: Small Cities, Villages, and Neighborhoods | |
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| The Working Landscape, Rural Clusters, and Conservation Subdivision Design | |
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| Greyfield and Brownfield Redevelopment | |
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| Green Buildings and Green Development | |
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| The Regional Context | |
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| Process for Sustainable Land Use Design | |
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| Summary | |
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| Local Government Smart Growth Management | |
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| Tools for Smart Growth Management and Land Use Control | |
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| Comprehensive/General Planning | |
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| Regulatory Tools for Growth Management | |
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| Nonregulatory Tools | |
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| Integrating Tools for Growth Management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Regional, State, and Federal Management of Environmentally Sensitive Lands | |
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| Regional Programs for Smart Growth Management and Environmental Land Protection | |
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| San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission | |
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| Twin Cities Metropolitan Council | |
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| Adirondack Park Agency | |
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| New Jersey Pinelands Commission | |
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| Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | |
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| State Growth Management Programs: Toward Smart Growth | |
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| Statewide Land Use Programs (Type 1) | |
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| State "Critical Areas" Protection Programs (Type 2) | |
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| Federal Programs for Environmental Land Use Planning and Management | |
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| Federal Programs Affecting Private Land Use | |
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| Policies Guiding the Activities of Federal Agencies | |
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| Public Land Management | |
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| Summary | |
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| Natural Hazard Mitigation | |
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| Natural Hazard Mitigation | |
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| Hazard, Exposure, Vulnerability, and Risk | |
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| Hazard Mitigation | |
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| Natural Hazard Mitigation Planning | |
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| Flooding and Flood Hazard Mitigation | |
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| Approaches to Flood Hazard Mitigation | |
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| Floodplain Management | |
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| Floodplain Maps and Flood Profiles | |
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| Coastal Zone Hazards | |
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| Coastal Storm Hazards | |
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| Mitigating Coastal Hazards through Smart Land Development Practices | |
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| Mitigating Geologic Hazards | |
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| Slope Stability | |
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| Support Problems | |
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| Seismic and Volcanic Hazards | |
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| Wildfire Hazards | |
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| Other Natural Hazards | |
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| Summary | |
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| Ecosystem and Watershed Management | |
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| Principles of Ecosystem Management | |
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| Ecosystem Management on Public Lands | |
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| Ecosystem Management on Private Lands | |
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| Ecosystem Management, TNC-Style: "Conservation by Design" | |
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| Ecological Restoration | |
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| Principles and Process of Watershed Protection | |
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| The Watershed Protection Approach | |
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| Center for Watershed Protection's Basic Concepts in Watershed Planning | |
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| Watershed and Ecosystem Assessment | |
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| Integrating Compatible Programs and Solutions | |
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| Institutional Arrangements for Ecosystem and Watershed Management | |
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| Institutional Models for Watershed Management | |
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| The Watershed Group/Association | |
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| The Watershed Manager | |
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| Stakeholder Involvement and Advisory Committees | |
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| Integrating Statewide and Local Watershed Programs | |
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| Applications of Ecosystem and Watershed Management | |
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| Federal Agency Ecosystem Management | |
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| Watershed Success Stories | |
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| Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds | |
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| Summary | |
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| Environmental Land Use Principles and Planning Analysis | |
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| Environmental Geospatial Data and Geographic Information Systems | |
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| Role of Data and Information in Environmental Planning and Management | |
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| A Tiered Process | |
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| Considerations and Pitfalls in Use of Data and Information | |
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| Geospatial Information | |
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| Maps and Some Cartographic Fundamentals | |
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| Remote Sensing Information: Aerial Photos and Satellite Imagery | |
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| Environmental Monitoring with Remote Sensing and Future Prospects | |
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| Digital Map and Remote Sensing Data | |
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| Community Environmental Planning Data on the Internet | |
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| Internet Mapping and Data Monitoring | |
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| Geographic Information Systems | |
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| Some Fundamentals of GIS | |
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| GIS Applications in Environmental Land Use Planning | |
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| The Power and Pitfalls of GIS | |
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| Environmental Field Data | |
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| Community Indicators, Indexes, and Thresholds | |
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| Summary | |
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| Soils, Topography, and Land Use | |
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| Land Use Properties of Soils and Soil Quality | |
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| Land Use Properties of Soil | |
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| Soil Quality and Soil Degradation | |
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| Soil Surveys and Interpretive Soils Mapping | |
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| Interpretive Soils Mapping Using the Soil Survey | |
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| Soil Surveys in the Digital Age | |
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| Limitations of Soil Surveys and New Advances | |
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| Slope Analysis | |
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| Determining Slope of a Site from a Topographic Map | |
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| Producing an Areawide Slope Map | |
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| Slope Mapping Using GIS | |
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| Soil Drainability, On-site Wastewater, and Land Application of Wastes | |
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| Agricultural Lands and Land Evaluation and Site Assessment | |
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| Agricultural Land Conversion | |
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| Land Evaluation and Site Assessment | |
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| Urban Soils | |
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| Soil Erosion and Assessment | |
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| Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, Erodibility Index, and Highly Erodible Lands | |
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| Mitigating Soil Erosion from Agricultural Lands | |
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| Urban Erosion and Sediment Control | |
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| Summary | |
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| Land Use, Stream Flow, and Runoff Pollution | |
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| The Water Balance | |
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| Watersheds and Channel Processes | |
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| Overland Drainage: Runoff and Watersheds | |
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| Channel Processes and Geomorphology | |
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| Effects of Land Use on Stream Flow and Predicting Peak Discharge | |
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| The Rational Method | |
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| TR 55 Peak Discharge Graphical Method | |
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| Effects of Land Use on Water Quality | |
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| Water Quality Fundamentals | |
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| Land Use Practices and Nonpoint Sources (NPS) Pollution | |
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| Effects of Land Use on Stream Integrity | |
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| Stream Integrity and Impervious Surfaces | |
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| Stream Assessment | |
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| Summary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Stormwater Management and Stream Restoration | |
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| Comprehensive Stormwater Management | |
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| Stormwater Management Programs and Ordinances | |
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| Integrated Management of Nonpoint and Point Source Water Pollution | |
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| Stream Restoration | |
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| Stormwater Management Measures | |
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| Land Use Design and Management | |
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| Lakeshore Protection | |
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| Pollutant Source Reduction | |
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| Stormwater Management Practices | |
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| Effectiveness of Urban Stormwater Management Practices | |
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| Selection and Sizing Considerations for Urban Stormwater Management Practices | |
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| Stream and Riparian Corridor Preservation and Restoration | |
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| Principles and Process of Stream Corridor Protection and Restoration | |
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| Designing Restored Stream Channels, Meanders, and Floodplains | |
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| Bioengineering Measures to Restore Stream Corridors and Control Bank Erosion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Land Use and Groundwater | |
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| Groundwater Hydrology Fundamentals | |
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| Aquifers and Recharge | |
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| Potentimetric (Piezometric) Surface and the Cone of Depression | |
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| Groundwater Flow and Relationship with Surface Water | |
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| Land Use, Groundwater Recharge, and Contamination | |
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| Impervious Surface and Groundwater Recharge | |
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| Groundwater Contamination | |
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| Assessing Groundwater Resources | |
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| Understanding the Groundwater System: Hydrogeologic Investigations | |
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| DRASTIC: Mapping Groundwater Contamination Susceptibility | |
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| Groundwater Source Protection | |
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| Sole Source Aquifers | |
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| Wellhead Protection Planning | |
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| Summary | |
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| Landscape Ecology, Urban Forestry, and Wetlands | |
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| Fundamentals of Landscape Ecology | |
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| Vegetation | |
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| Classifying, Inventorying, and Mapping Vegetation | |
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| Rapid Ecological Assessment | |
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| Vegetative Buffers | |
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| Forest Health | |
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| Urban Forestry | |
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| Urban and Regional Forest Canopy Analysis | |
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| Developing a Community Forest Management Strategy | |
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| Inventorying and Evaluating the Urban Forest | |
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| Managing the Urban Forest | |
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| Wetlands Mitigation and Management | |
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| Benefits of Wetlands | |
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| Wetland Conversion and Alteration | |
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| Wetland Protection, Mitigation, Restoration, and Creation | |
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| Federal Wetlands Regulation | |
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| State and Local Wetland Protection Programs | |
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| Coastal Ecology and Management | |
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| Coastal Zone Management | |
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| Model Programs for Coastal Zone Management | |
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| State CZM Programs: The California Coastal Commission | |
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| Summary | |
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| Land Use, Wildlife Habitats, and Biodiversity | |
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| Some Fundamentals of Wildlife Habitats and Biodiversity | |
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| Habitat Cores, Corridors, Connectivity, and Fragmentation | |
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| Functional Connectivity and Habitat Restoration | |
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| Habitat Inventories and Evaluation | |
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| Conservation Corridor Planning in Rural Areas | |
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| Principles of Conservation Corridor Planning | |
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| Process and Tools for Conservation Corridor Planning | |
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| Urban Biodiversity and Wildlife Management | |
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| Urban Wildlife Planning | |
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| Urban Biodiversity | |
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| Endangered Species and Habitat Conservation Planning | |
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| Conservation Tools of ESA and Habitat Conservation Planning | |
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| Natural Community Conservation Planning in California: Regional Conservation for Multiple Species | |
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| Summary | |
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| Integration Methods for Environmental Land Analysis | |
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| The Environmental Inventory | |
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| Rapid Assessment | |
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| Land Capability and Suitability Studies | |
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| Methods of Combination | |
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| Examples of Land Suitability Analysis | |
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| Human Carrying Capacity Studies | |
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| From Population Levels to the Attribute-Indicator-Threshold Approach | |
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| Environmental Thresholds in the Lake Tahoe Basin | |
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| Limits of Acceptable Change | |
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| The Ecological Footprint | |
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| Environmental Impact Assessment in Land Use and Development | |
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| "With-Without" Analysis: Impact Variables, Indicators, and Thresholds | |
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| The EIA Process | |
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| Use of EIA in Land Development | |
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| Common Problems in EIA Implementation | |
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| Build-out Analysis | |
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| Build-out Analysis in Massachusetts's Community Development and Preservation Planning | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |