Measuring Impacts of Resource Management on Land Quality: A Structure for Analysis

摘要

This paper reviews many existing methods and proposes a new structural model for defining and measuring land quality and for assessing the impacts on land quality of resource development plans and actions. The new model subdivides land quality into two major components: (1) land as a productive and useful resource, and (2) land as a scenic or aesthetic resource. Means to measure these two components and merge them into a land quality index are presented.