Florida’s Agricultural Lands: The Foundation for our Future
2024年2月8日 · Securing the future of our rural land and its resources means protecting it from development and ensuring that agriculture remains a viable land use. At our current pace of development, Florida is converting more than 120 acres every day from ranchlands and pine forests to rooftops and roads.
This chapter provides an overview of land use and land cover change in Florida over the past 100 years and a summary of how it may change in the future. We begin by providing a baseline description of
Florida’s working agricultural land also supports local and regional economies based on agriculture and ecotourism and protects our state’s rural quality of life. The importance of agriculture to the state’s economic health cannot be overstated.
Agricultural land conversion: Impacts of economic and natural …
2019年1月1日 · This paper evaluates the impact of both rent capitalization and potential losses from natural disasters on land conversion dynamics in an urbanized coastal area in Florida using interval censored duration analysis.
Florida’s unparalleled beauty and abundant natural resources enhance Floridians’ quality of life and provide multiple economic benefits. The Florida Forever program is the current foundation of Florida’s invest-ment in land conservation and environmental and economic sustainability.
Farms Under Threat - American Farmland Trust
Farms Under Threat is AFT’s multi-year effort to advance cutting-edge solutions for farmland protection. We use high-resolution spatial analysis tools to identify exactly where agricultural land has been converted to urban and low-density residential land uses—and to …
Land Conservation – Florida Conservation Group
The Florida Conservation Group works to secure funding for land protection programs and conservation incentives at the state, federal and local levels. Florida has always been a national leader in land protection.
A Guide to Converting Your Agricultural Land to Residential
2023年7月21日 · Converting agricultural land to residential involves researching zoning laws, assessing the feasibility of the conversion, obtaining permits, developing a site plan, hiring professionals, and completing construction.
Transformation of the South Florida Landscape - The National …
1900–1930: Drainage and Land Conversion. With the construction in the early 1900s of a coastal railroad and the initiation of major drainage activities south of Lake Okeechobee, human manipulation of the South Florida ecosystem increased rapidly.
UF Researcher Estimates Rate Of Rural-To-Urban Land Conversion
1999年4月26日 · University of Florida economist John Reynolds can hazard some pretty good guesses. The food and resource economics researcher specializes in models that provide estimates of the rate of land conversion from rural to urban.