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Forest Cover, Impervious-Surface Area, and the Mitigation of Urbanization Impacts in King County, Washington

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Title Forest Cover, Impervious-Surface Area, and the Mitigation of Urbanization Impacts in King County, Washington
 
Creator Booth, Derek B.
 
Subject land cover
urbanization
risk reduction
watersheds
urban areas
endangered species
biological assessment
urban development
watershed hydrology
aquatic habitat
Washington
streams
stream channels
stormwater
water erosion
 
Description For decades, watershed urbanization has been known to have severe consequences on aquatic systems. Although the problem has been long articulated, solutions have proven elusive because of the complexity of the problem, the evolution of improving but still- imperfect analytical tools, and socio-economic forces with different and often incompatible interests. King County, Washington, has been a recognized leader in the effort to analyze and to reduce the consequences of urban development, but...
King County Water and Land Resources Division
 
Publisher University of Washington Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
Date 2011-12-30T22:32:15Z
2011-12-30T22:32:15Z
2000-09
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1773/19552
 
Language en_US
 
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