dekay23's Thompson:J [4 articles]

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Urban expansion places pressure on municipalities to deal with conflicts between development and conservation of natural resources along the urban–rural interface. Although they do not address large-scale problems such as suburban sprawl, alternative development techniques such as conservation subdivision designs include features that can mitigate undesirable site-scale effects of development on water quality or sensitive ecological areas. This approach has not been widely used in the Midwestern United States, so this study explores some possible barriers to implementation. Developers throughout Iowa ...

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Urban expansion places pressure on municipalities to deal with conflicts between development and conservation of natural resources along the urban-rural interface. Although they do not address large-scale problems such as suburban sprawl, alternative development techniques such as conservation subdivision designs include features that can mitigate undesirable site-scale effects of development on water quality or sensitive ecological areas. This approach has not been widely used in the Midwestern United States, so this study explores some possible barriers to implementation. Developers throughout Iowa ...

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Conservation subdivision design has been promoted as a way to protect ecologically sensitive areas while maintaining housing densities comparable to standard subdivisions, but many developers and planners question the appeal of conservation design to consumers. This study was conducted to compare economic aspects of conservation subdivision design to standard subdivision design in the midwestern United States. Three methods were used to determine the value homebuyers have for embedded conservation features in residential areas: transactional analyses (to indicate the value homebuyers have ...

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1. Evidence-based policy requires researchers to provide the answers to ecological questions that are of interest to policy makers. To find out what those questions are in the UK, representatives from 28 organizations involved in policy, together with scientists from 10 academic institutions, were asked to generate a list of questions from their organizations. 2. During a 2-day workshop the initial list of 1003 questions generated from consulting at least 654 policy makers and academics was used as a basis for ...