Land Use Change and Impacts on the San Francisco Estuary: A Regional Assessment with National Policy Implications

McCreary, Scott; Twiss, Robert H.; Warren, Bonita; White, Carolyn D.; Huse, Susan M.; Gardels, Kenneth; Roques, Dominic

doi:10.1080/08920759209362176

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“…All too often, the decisions of these governmental bodies result in inconsistent planning across jurisdictional boundaries and a lack of regionally coordinated efforts. The cumulative effects of multijurisdictional decisions are rarely considered in any one decision, which demonstrates a cross-boundary phenomenon replicated in many parts of the world (McCreary et al, 1992). Analytical tools may help local decision-makers conceptualize the effects of individual decisions on regional resources, yet such tools are not usually available nor usable by non-technical planners.…”

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Assessing the influence of rapid urban growth and regional policies on biological resources

Beardsley

Thorne

Roth

et al. 2009

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the influence of rapid urban growth and regional policies on biological resources

Beardsley

Thorne

Roth

et al. 2009

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…The motivation for studying the Mississippi Sound estuary system (Fig. 6.1) is based on several characteristics that it shares with other environmentally stressed estuaries (McCreary, Twiss et al 1992;Martinho, Viegas et al 2008). Mississippi Sound has a large shellfish industry (Mcbee and Brehm 1982;Chigbu, Strange et al 2006) and its wetlands serve as a hatchery for marine and freshwater fish (Overstreet and Heard 1982;Hoffmayer and Parsons 2003;Franks, Hendon et al 2004;Ross, Slack et al 2009).…”

Section: Estuarine Circulation and Mass Transport In St Louis Bay Anmentioning

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The Coastal Dynamics of Heterogeneous Sedimentary Environments: Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Mass Transport in Estuaries

Keen¹,

Holland²

2010

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“…Common applications of GIS in EIA include route and corridor assessment (e.g. Sankoh et al, 1993;Treweek & Veitch, 1996) and analysis of landuse change impacts on wetlands and water quality (McCreary et al, 1992). Joao and Fonseca (1996) acknowledge that the ability of GIS to store, integrate, analyse and display spatial attributes of environmental and socioeconomic data has led to a wider adoption in EIA.…”

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A Landscape Ecology Approach to Assessing Development Impacts in the Tropics: A Geothermal Energy Example in Hawaii

Griffith

Trettin

O’Neill³

2002

Singap J Trop Geogr

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Geographic information systems (GIS) are increasingly being used in environmental impact assessments (EIA) because GIS is useful for analysing spatial impacts of various development scenarios. Spatially representing these impacts provides another tool for landscape ecology in environmental and geographical investigations by facilitating analysis of the effects of landscape pattern on ecological processes and examining change over time. Landscape ecological principles are applied in this study to a hypothetical geothermal development project on the Island of Hawaii. Some common landscape pattern metrics were used to analyse dispersed versus condensed development scenarios and their effect on landscape pattern. Indices of fragmentation and patch shape did not appreciably change with additional development. The amount of forest to open edge, however, greatly increased with the dispersed development scenario. In addition, landscape metrics showed that a human disturbance had a greater simplifying effect on patch shape and also increased fragmentation than a natural disturbance. The use of these landscape pattern metrics can advance the methodology of applying GIS to EIA.

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Land Use Change and Impacts on the San Francisco Estuary: A Regional Assessment with National Policy Implications

Cited by 13 publications

References 1 publication

Assessing the influence of rapid urban growth and regional policies on biological resources

Assessing the influence of rapid urban growth and regional policies on biological resources

The Coastal Dynamics of Heterogeneous Sedimentary Environments: Numerical Modeling of Hydrodynamics and Mass Transport in Estuaries

A Landscape Ecology Approach to Assessing Development Impacts in the Tropics: A Geothermal Energy Example in Hawaii

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