The driving forces of land change in the Northern Piedmont of the United States
Geographical Review
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Abstract
Driving forces facilitate or inhibit land-use/land-cover change. Human driving forces include political, economic, cultural, and social attributes that often change across time and space. Remotely sensed imagery provides regional land-change data for the Northern Piedmont, an ecoregion of the United States that continued to urbanize after 1970 through conversion of agricultural and forest land covers to developed uses. Eight major driving forces facilitated most of the land conversion; other drivers inhibited or slowed change. A synergistic web of drivers may be more important in understanding land change than individual drivers by themselves.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | The driving forces of land change in the Northern Piedmont of the United States |
| Series title | Geographical Review |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00130.x |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 2012 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publisher location | Hoboken, NJ |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 23 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Geographical Review |
| First page | 53 |
| Last page | 75 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryl;New York;Pennsylvania;Virginia |
| Other Geospatial | Northern Piedmont |
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