Auch Roger F. author Napton D.E. author Kambly S. author Moreland T.R. author Sayler Kristi L. author 2012 FY 2012 Driving forces facilitate or inhibit land-use / land-cover change. Human driving forces include political, economic, cultural, and social attributes that often change across time and space. Remotely sensed imagery provides regional land-change data for the Northern Piedmont, an ecoregion of the United States that continued to urbanize after 1970 through conversion of agricultural and forest land covers to developed uses. Eight major driving forces facilitated most of the land conversion; other drivers inhibited or slowed change. A synergistic web of drivers may be more important in understanding land change than individual drivers by themselves. change conversion data driving force ecoregion forest forest land human imagery journal articles land land change land cover land cover change land use land-cover land-cover change land-use land-use change northern Piedmont regional time and space United States urbanization exported from refbase (http://eros.usgs.gov/refbase/show.php?record=24083), last updated on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:00:47 -0500 text http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00130.x http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00130.x Auch_etal2012 EROS @ cdeering @ 1214 2012 continuing periodical academic journal 102 1 53 75 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00130.x