Ecological Sustainability in the Southern Appalachians and Olympic Peninsula
Investigators:
David N. Wear, Southern Research Station
and several collaborators
Description:
This interdisciplinary research project was conducted with cooperators from several universities and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. Funded by the U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program, this research linked economic models of land use choice to landscape simulations and then examined the ecological implications of landscape change. Taken together, this approach provides a means of forecasting the ecological implications of various development and regulatory scenarios on public and private lands. All models were incorporated in an integrated modeling system tied to GIS data bases for study areas. An analysis of ecosystem management strategies in the Southern Appalachians indicates that changing National Forest management may have only limited impact on overall ecological structure within the region.
Problem Area(s): Landscape/stand models
Status:
Completed
Products:
Wear, David N.; Turner, Monica G.; Flamm, Richard 0. 1996. Ecosystem management with multiple owners: landscape dynamics in a southern Appalachian watershed. Ecological Applications. 6(4):1173-1188.
Turner, Monica G.; Wear, David N.; Flamm, Richard O. 1996.Land ownership and land-cover change in the Southern Appalachian Highlands and the Olympic Peninsula. Ecological Applications. 6(4): 1150-1172
Gottfried, Robert; Wear, David; Lee, Robert. 1996. Institutional solutions to market failure on the landscape scale. Ecological Economics. 18: 133-140.
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13-MAR-2000
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