A method to assess the implications of future urban expansion on rural land / Chris Cocklin and Barry Smit.: En73-4/23E-PDF

"In Canada, as elsewhere, there has been an outward expansion of urban centres in order to accommodate the land demands for urban activities. A variety of resource conflicts have arisen as a result, one of the most actively discussed in recent times being the development for urban uses of land with high capability for renewable uses. While there have been numerous studies undertaken in an effort to estimate the extent and rate of conversions of rural land, especially agricultural land, to urban land uses, there has been much less attention devoted to estimating the extent and possible implications of future land conversions. In this report an approach to estimating future rural to urban land conversions is described and a method to assess the implications of land conversions in terms of the land resource for rural land use activities is developed. A pilot study, implemented to assess the implications of future land conversions for agriculture in Ontario, provides an illustration of the approaches described"--Abstract.

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Publication information
Department/Agency Canada. Environment Canada.
Canada. Lands Directorate.
Canada Land Use Monitoring Program.
Title A method to assess the implications of future urban expansion on rural land / Chris Cocklin and Barry Smit.
Series title Working paper ; no. 23
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada].
Issued also in French under title: Méthode d'évaluation des répercussions surl'espace rural des futures expansions urbaines.
Issued by Canada Land Use Monitoring Program.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 33-38).
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Lands Directorate, Environment Canada, June 1982.
Author / Contributor Cocklin, Christopher R. (Christopher Reid)author.
Smit, Barry, author.
Description 1 online resource (vi, 40 pages) : illustrations.
Catalogue number
  • En73-4/23E-PDF
Subject terms Land management
Urban planning
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