Abstract
Karst regulations are in place in karstic areas throughout the United States, although the specific forms these ordinances take can vary widely from place to place. In seeking to understand how these regulations are developed and how they work, one must consider the possibility that they are influenced by factors that are tied to geographic location. This chapter examines this possibility by describing the regulatory goals of karst-aware land use regulations and ordinances, defining many commonly used tools for achieving these goals and exploring detailed examples of these regulations and ordinances from across the United States, grouped by region. The chapter finds that there do not seem to be strong regional influences on the development and character of karst land use regulations and it ends by identifying several characteristics that are widely shared by these regulations across the United States.
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Fleury, S. (2009). A Brief Look at Land Use Regulations in Karst Terrains. In: Land Use Policy and Practice on Karst Terrains. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9670-9_2
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