@article {Brown2008805, title = {Exurbia from the bottom-up: Confronting empirical challenges to characterizing a complex system}, journal = {Geoforum}, volume = {39}, number = {2}, year = {2008}, note = {Conversations Across the Divide; The Time and Place for Political Ecology: The Life-Work of Piers Blaikie; Biocomplexity in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: The Study of Population-Environment Interactions}, pages = {805 - 818}, keywords = {Ecological effects, Land-cover change, Land-use change, Spatial modeling, Urban sprawl}, issn = {0016-7185}, doi = {DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.02.010}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V68-4NTHN5J-2/2/95cec4d7f094795fc6ba7ca8cba93142}, author = {Daniel G. Brown and Derek T. Robinson and Li An and Joan I. Nassauer and Moira Zellner and William Rand and Rick Riolo and Scott E. Page and Bobbi Low and Zhifang Wang} }