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Where to Put Things: A study of land use planning in the Willamette Valley
Purpose of the study
- Purpose was to search for efficient land-use patterns
- it may be possible to get high biodiversity and generating economic returns
- efficiency "frontier" is the highest match of biodivesity and economic returns
- inside the frontier - not efficient
- can improve in either direction without loss of value in the other
- 9 land use categories from farming to urban to conservation
- for biodiversity - landscape connectivity index provides value
- assumes there are no economic returns from conservation
- but could include ecosystem services
Comparison of multiple objectives

tradeoffs
- red - linear tradeoff
- blue - interference
- green - synergism
Study area was the Willamette Valley

possible land uses
- Agriculture
- Managed forestry
- UGB
- Rural residential
- Conserved wild areas
Utilitity calculations for different scenarios and mixtures of land use

possible outcomes
- upper left
- lower right
- point I -- below the surface -
- could improve economy with no loss to biodiversity or
- could improve biodiversity with no loss to economic activity
Notes to accompany the article
Notes to accompany the figures in the article
- Figure 1 - orienting map
- Figure 2 - efficiency frontier and current estimates of location in biodiversity vs. economic space
- Figure 3 - Willamette valley patterns
- Figure 4 - Corvallis area