Abstract
With rapid increases in rural population and continuing expectations of economic growth, pressures on land resources within the central hardwoods region have increasingly become a topic of public debate. Controversy over the allocation of rural and urban fringe forestland often results from the competition between forest management and low-density residential development. Land allocated to forest management provides a flow of both market and non-market benefits to society. These same forests, on the other hand, are sought by developers for profitable building sites.
Parent Publication
Citation
Carver, Andrew D. 1999. A forestland allocation model for urbanizing landscapes. In: Stringer, Jeffrey W.; Loftis, David L., eds. 1999. Proceedings, 12th central hardwood forest conference; 1999 February 28-March 1-2; Lexington, KY. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-24. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 293 p
