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- Title
Defining urban, suburban, and rural: a method to link perceptual definitions with geospatial measures of urbanization in central and eastern Massachusetts.
- Authors
Short Gianotti, Anne; Getson, Jackie; Hutyra, Lucy; Kittredge, David
- Abstract
Developing greater understandings of socio-ecological relationships across urbanizing areas is increasingly recognized as important for the conservation and management of natural resources in a variety of development contexts. Efforts to do so have been hindered by a lack of consistent measures of urbanization and the challenge of integrating socio-cultural characteristics into definitions of urban. We present a novel method for linking perceptual definitions of urban, suburban, and rural to geospatial characteristics and demonstrate how the method can be used to map urban, suburban, and rural areas at multiple scales in central and eastern Massachusetts. Our method can facilitate comparative approaches to urban ecology, be used to scale up socio-ecological studies, and inform conservation research and practice in urbanizing areas.
- Subjects
URBANIZATION; URBAN ecology; SOCIAL sciences; URBAN planning &; the environment; DECISION trees
- Publication
Urban Ecosystems, 2016, Vol 19, Issue 2, p823
- ISSN
1083-8155
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11252-016-0535-3