sustainability science

Social norms, yard care, and the difference between front and back yard management: Examining the landscape mullets concept on urban residential lands

Many factors influence yard care in urban and suburban areas, but the explicit difference between front versus back yards is one factor that has not been fully examined. This paper introduces the Landscape Mullet concept. The two key components of …

Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care

Changes in land use, land cover, and land management present some of the greatest potential global environmental challenges of the 21st century. Urbanization, one of the principal drivers of these transformations, is commonly thought to be generating …