It's the land use not the fuels: fires and land development in southern California
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Of in the 15 participating banding stations in Region Park V in the autumn of 1983, only Baltimore's Leakin Park was new. Two others that were active but not reported in 1982 rejoined us in 1983. Four of the 15 stations are home operations, 2 are on Federal land, 2 in city parks, 2 at private schools, 2 at coastal concentration spots, 1 on a wildlife sanctuary, 1 in an abandoned orchard, and 1 in an impending real estate development. Coverage and catch characteristics of each station are summarized in Table 1 and in the pie charts that accompany the station reports. The habitats sampled vary so much among stations that species and even family composition are unique at each site.
Assessing the sustainability of International policy or urban development requires consideration of the impacts of these decisions on Ecosystem Services, or the values that humans receive from the ecosystem, including market-land price, environmental, and human well-being values. Hedonic modeling helps to identify the market land price, considering the price is determined by multiple factors affecting it. In U.S. portions of the bi-national Santa Cruz Watershed (SCW), situated at the Arizona-Sonora International border, natural amenities like the riparian corridor and green space have been documented as positive amenities that boost local real estate. The goal of this research is to isolate the effects of the US-Mexico border and known environmental or natural amenities or disamenities on housing prices in the binational watershed, while controlling for housing stock characteristics and social-environmental vulnerability. In the ultimate analysis, the mean house values within census blocks will be used to represent local housing stock. A human well-being index that measures people’s socio-environmental vulnerability for the entire SCW is in publication that is based on access to infrastructure, number of bedrooms per house and other social data from the binational census and local colonias database will also be compared. The hedonic pricing method will be applied to statistically estimate a function that relates property values to the variables described. This presentation will provide a synopsis of the quality of life and hedonics literature review used to develop this research agenda. Variables relevant for local environmental management, having significant effects on property values, will be discussed. The final results obtained from this study can be used determine the benefits of preserving or developing land binationally and will be uploaded to the Santa Cruz Watershed Ecosystem Portfolio Model (SCWEPM), an online Ecosystem Services tool, being created to promote sustainable development in the Borderlands.