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Land Use Conflicts in California

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California’s astonishing richness in natural resources was mercilessly exploited as the Golden State became part of the American dream. Generations of writers have written on and lamented over the “destruction of California” (Dasmann 1965), “vanishing California” (Anonymous 1989), or “California — the endangered dream” (TIME 1991). Explosive population growth and land development have been accompanied by a plethora of environmental problems from air pollution to hazardous wastes and — most of all — large-scale landscape transformation and degradation (Palmer 1993) that have reduced some ecosystem types such as wetlands and riparian systems to less than 10% of their spatial expanse in less than 100 years.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of California (UCLA), 900 Veteran Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Philip W. Rundel

  2. Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Casilla 114-D, Santiago, Chile

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Walter, H.S. (1998). Land Use Conflicts in California. In: Rundel, P.W., Montenegro, G., Jaksic, F.M. (eds) Landscape Disturbance and Biodiversity in Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03543-6_6

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