Planning alternative future landscapes in Oregon: evaluating effects on water quality and biodiversity

D Hulse, J Eilers, K Freemark, C Hummon… - Landscape …, 2000 - lj.uwpress.org
The development of spatially explicit landscape analyses is a principal activity in research
on the relationships between human activities and changes occurring in natural systems …

Alternative futures for the Willamette River basin, Oregon

JP Baker, DW Hulse, SV Gregory, D White… - Ecological …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative futures analysis can inform community decisions regarding land and water use.
We conducted an alternative futures analysis in the Willamette River Basin in western …

The use of scenario analysis to assess future landscape change on watershed condition in the Pacific Northwest (USA)

WG Kepner, M Hernandez, D Semmens… - Use of landscape …, 2008 - Springer
The ability to assess, report, and forecast the life support functions of ecosystems is
absolutely critical to our capacity to make informed decisions which will maintain the …

[PDF][PDF] Remote sensing and geographic information systems for decision analysis in public resource administration: A case study of 25 years of landscape change in a …

WG Kepner, CM Edmonds… - Las Vegas: US …, 2002 - uppersanpedropartnership.org
Alternative futures analysis is a scenario-based approach to regional land planning that
attempts to synthesize existing scientific information in a format useful to community decision …

Projecting wildlife responses to alternative future landscapes in Oregon's Willamette Basin

NH Schumaker, T Ernst, D White, J Baker… - Ecological …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Increasingly, environmental quality is becoming recognized as a critical factor that should
constrain land use planning. One important measure of a landscape's quality is its capacity …

Assessing alternative futures for agriculture in Iowa, USA

MV Santelmann, D White, K Freemark, JI Nassauer… - Landscape …, 2004 - Springer
The contributions of current agricultural practices to environmental degradation and the
social problems facing agricultural regions are well known. However, landscape-scale …

Applying ecological principles to land-use decision making in agricultural watersheds

M Santelmann, K Freemark, D White… - … ecological principles to …, 2001 - Springer
The use of ecological principles and guidelines in land-use planning, as advocated by the
Ecological Society of America Committee on Land Use (Dale et al., Chapter 1) will be …

Integrating urbanization into landscape-level ecological assessments

JD Kline, A Moses, RJ Alig - Ecosystems, 2001 - Springer
Economists and ecologists are often asked to collaborate on landscape-level analyses
designed to jointly assess economic and ecological conditions resulting from environmental …

Multidisciplinary modeling and GIS for landscape management

RO Flamm, MG Turner - 1993 - osti.gov
Ecological dynamics in human-influenced landscapes are strongly affected by the
socioeconomic factors that influence land-use decisions. Incorporating these factors into a …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating hydrological response to forecasted land-use change

WG Kepner, DJ Semmens, M Hernandez, DC Goodrich - Chapter, 2008 - ars.usda.gov
It is currently possible to measure landscape change over large areas and determine trends
in environmental condition using advanced space-based technologies accompanied by …