Rural Area Tools - Additional Resources

Books & Articles

• Baker, D.C., NG. Sipe and B.G. Gleeson. 2006. Performance based planning: perspectives from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Journal of Planning Education and Research 25: 396-409. (PDF)
• Barber, J.R., K.R. Crooks and K.M. Fristrup. 2009. The costs of chronic noise exposure for terrestrial organisms. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 25: 180-189. (PDF)
• Beatley, T. 2000. Preserving biodiversity. Journal of the American Planning Association 66: 5-20.
• Benedict, M.A. and ET. McMahon. 2006. Green infrastructure: linking landscapes and communities. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
• BEST 2001. Compensating for Wetland Losses under the Clean Water Act. National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. (PDF)
• Blinn, C.R. and M.A. Kilgore. 2001. Riparian management practices: a summary of state guidelines. Journal of Forestry 99: 11-17. (PDF)
• Brabec, E and C. Smith. 2002. Agricultural land fragmentation: the spatial effects of three land protection strategies in the eastern United States. Landscape and Urban Planning 58: 255-268. (PDF)
• Brown, D.G., K.M. Johnson, T.R. Loveland and D.M. Theobald. 2005. Rural land-use trends in the conterminous United States, 1950-2000. Ecological Applications 15: 1851-1863. (PDF)
• Burby, J. (editor). 1998. Cooperating with nature: confronting natural hazards with land-use planning for sustainable communities. Joseph Henry Press, National Academy of Sciences.
• Byun, P. and A.X. Esparza. 2005. A revisionist model of suburbanization and sprawl: the role of political fragmentation, growth control, and spillovers. Journal of Planning Education and Research 24: 252-264. (PDF)
• Calhoun, A.J.K., NA. Miller and M.W Klemens. 2005. Conserving pool-breeding amphibians in human-dominated landscapes through local implementation of Best Development Practices. Wetlands Ecology and Management 13: 291-304. (PDF)
• Carter, T. 2009. Developing conservation subdivisions: ecological constraints, regulatory barriers, and market incentives. Landscape and Urban Planning 92: 117-124. (PDF)
• Castelle, A.J., A.W Johnson and C. Connolly. 1994. Wetland and stream buffer size requirements - a review. Journal of Environmental Quality 23: 878-882. (PDF)
• Churkina, G., D.G. Brown and G. Keoleian. 2010. Carbon stored in human settlements: the conterminous United States. Global Change Biology 16: 135-143. (PDF)
• Daniels, T.L. 1991. The purchase of development rights: preserving agricultural land and open space. Journal of the American Planning Association 57: 421-431. (PDF)
• Daniels, T. and M. Lapping. 2005. Land preservation: an essential ingredient in smart growth. Journal of Planning Literature 19: 316-329. (PDF)
• Duke, J.M. and L. Lynch. 2007. Gauging support for innovative farmland preservation techniques. Policy Science 40: 123-155. (PDF)
• Ewing, R., and R. Cervero. 2010. Travel and the built environment: a meta-analysis. Journal of the American Planning Association 76: 265-294. (PDF)
• Ewing, R., R. Pendall and D. Chen. 2002. Measuring sprawl and its impact. Smart Growth America, Washington, D.C. (PDF)
• Florida Native Plant Society. Model Native Plant Landscape Ordinance Handbook. (PDF)
• Foster, M.L. and SR. Humphrey. 1995. Use of highway underpasses by Florida panthers and other wildlife. Wildlife Society Bulletin 23:95-100. (PDF)
• Freedgood, J. 1997. Saving American farmland: What works. American Farmland Trust, Northampton, MA.
• Freeman, C. 1999. Development of a simple method for site survey and assessment in urban areas. Landscape and Urban Planning 44: 1-11. (PDF)
• Goldstein, J.H., C.K. Presnall, L. Lopez-Hoffman, G.P. Nabhan, R.L. Knight, G.B. Ruyle and T.P. Toombs. 2011. Beef and beyond: paying for ecosystem services on western U.S rangelands. Rangelands 33:4-12. (PDF)
• Groves, C.R. 2003. Drafting a conservation blueprint: a practitioner’s guide to planning for biodiversity. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
• Hanophy, W 2009. Fencing with Wildlife in Mind. Colorado Division of Wildlife. (PDF)
• Hansen, A.J., R.L. Knight, J.M. Marzluff, S Powell, K. Brown, P.H. Gude and K. Jones. 2005. Effects of exurban development on biodiversity: patterns, mechanisms, and research needs. Ecological Applications 15: 1893-1905. (PDF)
• Hellmund, P.C. and D.S Smith. 2006. Designing greenways: sustainable landscapes for nature and people. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
• Hepinstall-Cymerman, J., S Coe and L.R. Hutyra. 2013. Urban growth patterns and growth management boundaries in the central Puget Sound, Washington, 1986-2007. Urban Ecosystems (PDF)
• Hostetler, M. and D. Drake. 2009. Conservation subdivisions: a wildlife perspective. Landscape and Urban Planning 90: 95-101. (PDF)
• Kaplowitz, M.D., P. Machemer and R. Pruetz. 2008. Planners’ experiences in managing growth using transferable development rights (TDR) in the United States. Land Use Policy 25: 378-387. (PDF)
• Kaye, J.P, P.M. Groffman, NB. Grimm, L.A. Baker and R.V. Pouyat. 2006. A distinct urban biogeochemistry? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21: 192-199. (PDF)
• Kiesecker et al. 2007. Conservation easements in context: a quantitative analysis of their use by The Nature Conservancy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:125-130. (PDF)
• Kiesecker, J.M., H. Copeland, A. Pocewicz, N Nibbelink, B. McKenny, J. Dahlke, M. Holloran and D. Stroud. 2009. A framework for implementing biodiversity offsets: selecting sites and determining scale. BioScience 59: 77-84. (PDF)
• Kihslinger, R.L. 2008. Success of wetland mitigation projects. National Wetlands Newsletter 30: 14-16. (PDF)
• Lenth, B.E, R.L. Knight and M.E Brennan. 2008. The effects of dogs on wildlife communities. Natural Areas Journal: 28:218-227. (PDF)
• Lepczyk, C.A., A.G. Mertig and J. Liu. 2003. Landowners and cat predation across rural-urban landscapes. Biological Conservation 115: 191-201. (PDF)
• Longcore, T. and C. Rich. 2004. Ecological light pollution. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2:191-198. (PDF)
• Machemer, P.L. and M.D. Kaplowitz. 2002. A framework for evaluating transferable development rights programmes. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 45: 773-795. (PDF)
• Mandelik, Y., T. Dayan, and E Feitelson. 2005. Planning for biodiversity: the role of ecological impact assessment. Conservation Biology 19: 1254-1261. (PDF)
• Margules, C.R. and R.L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature 405: 243-253. (PDF)
• McElfish, J.M. 2004. Nature-friendly ordinances. Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.
• Merenlender, A.M., L. Huntsinger, G. Guthey and SK. Fairfax. 2004. Land trusts and conservation easements: who is conserving what for whom? Conservation Biology 18: 65-76. (PDF)
• Milder, J.C. 2007. A framework for understanding conservation development and its ecological implications. BioScience 57: 757-768. (PDF)
• Milder, J.C. and S Clark. 2011. Conservation development practices, extent, and land-use effects in the United States. Conservation Biology 25: 697-707. (PDF)
• Milder, J.C. Using Limited development to conserve land and natural resources (essay). (PDF)
• Nelson, A.C. and T. Moore. 1993. Assessing urban growth management: the case of Portland, Oregon, the USA’s largest urban growth boundary. Land Use Policy 10: 293-302. (PDF)
• Odell, EA. and R.L. Knight. 2001. Songbird and medium-sized mammal communities associated with exurban development in Pitkin County, Colorado. Conservation Biology 15:1143-1150. (PDF)
• Pejchar, L., P.M. Morgan, M.R. Caldwell, C. Palmer and G.C. Daily. 2007. Evaluating the potential for conservation development: biophysical, economic, and institutional perspectives. Conservation Biology 21: 69-78. (PDF)
• Perlman, D.L. and J.C. Milder. 2005. Practical ecology for planners, developers, and citizens. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
• Porter, D.R. 2008. Managing growth in America’s communities. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
• Pruetz, R. and N Standridge. 2008. What makes transfer of development rights work? Success factors from research and practice. Journal of the American Planning Association 75: 78-87. (PDF)
• Reed, SE, J.A. Hilty and D.M. Theobald. (In review.) Conservation development: balancing biodiversity protection with residential development through local land-use regulations. In review for publication in Conservation Biology.
• Robinson, L., J.P. Newell and J.M. Marzluff. 2005. Twenty-five years of sprawl in the Seattle region: growth management responses and implications for conservation. Landscape and Urban Planning 71: 51-72 (PDF)
• Semlitsch, R.D. and J.R. Bodie. 2003.Biological criteria for buffer zones around wetlands and riparian areas for amphibians and reptiles. Conservation Biology 5:1219-1228. (PDF)
• Steiner, F., L. McSherry and J. Cohen. 2000. Landscape and Urban Planning 50: 199-214. (PDF)
• Taylor, J.J., D.G. Brown and L. Larsen. 2007. Preserving natural features: a GIS-based evaluation of a local open-space ordinance. Landscape and Urban Planning 82: 1-16. (PDF)
• Theobald, D.M. 2005. Landscape patterns of exurban growth in the USA from 1980 to 2020. Ecology and Society 10: 32. (PDF)
• Theobald, D.M. and NT. Hobbs. 2002. A framework for evaluating land use planning alternatives: protecting biodiversity on private land. Conservation Ecology 6: 5. (PDF)
• Wilson, A. and J. Boehland. 2005. Small is beautiful: U.S house size, resource use, and the environment. Journal of Industrial Ecology 9: 277-287. (PDF)
• Wright, J.B. 1993. Conservation easements: an analysis of donated development rights. Journal of the American Planning Association 59: 487-493. (PDF)
• Zollinger, B. and R.S Krannich. 2001. Utah agricultural operators’ attitudes toward commonly used agricultural land preservation initiatives. Journal of the Community Development Society 32: 35-64. (PDF)