Land use decisions in karst terrains can have immediate and serious impacts on the local landscape and groundwater resources. The existing literature on karst and land use can be very difficult to locate in the journals of any of a half-dozen different disciplines. This book brings the interdisciplinary knowledge together in one place, in a format that academics and professionals alike will find accessible, informative and useful. Based on an examination of existing regulations, the experiences and opinions of planners and land use professionals, and quantitative analysis of publicly-available data, the book explores how human settlement patterns and urban systems in karst terrains are affected by land use regulations intended to protect karst resources. The book pays particular attention to the questions of whether these regulations will have anoticeable impact on density and on opportunities for economic growth and development in communities that choose to implement them. First book-length work devoted solely to the topic of land use regulation in karst terrains Provides a framework for understanding and developing karst land use regulations INDICE: Chapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: What is karst, and why planners should care.- Chapter Three: Karst-related land use regulation in the United States.- Chapter Four: Planners and karst.- Chapter Five: How karst landuse regulations affect the places that use them: two case studies.- Chapter Six: The framework for understanding and developing karst land use regulations.
- ISBN: 978-1-4020-9669-3
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 225
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés